Comments on: Nereid Boat Club http://thisamericanriver.com Afloat on New Jersey's Passaic Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:35:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: admin http://thisamericanriver.com/nereid-boat-club/comment-page-1/#comment-3350 admin Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:35:45 +0000 http://thisamericanriver.com/?page_id=137#comment-3350 Hi, Dan, Thanks for visiting This American River. For details about that oar bannister, you'll have to contact the Nereid Boat Club directly. Here's that web site url and phone number: http://www.nereidbc.org/ (201) 438-3995 Good luck! Mary B. Hi, Dan,

Thanks for visiting This American River. For details about that oar bannister, you’ll have to contact the Nereid Boat Club directly.
Here’s that web site url and phone number:
http://www.nereidbc.org/
(201) 438-3995

Good luck!

Mary B.

]]> By: Dan Rizzi http://thisamericanriver.com/nereid-boat-club/comment-page-1/#comment-3320 Dan Rizzi Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:02:16 +0000 http://thisamericanriver.com/?page_id=137#comment-3320 Hi!, I've seen the oar bannister in your club house and would like to do the same . Are there any 11' oars available for sale ? dan Hi!, I’ve seen the oar bannister in your club house and would like to do the same . Are there any 11′ oars available for sale ? dan

]]> By: Bob Watts http://thisamericanriver.com/nereid-boat-club/comment-page-1/#comment-1374 Bob Watts Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:27:46 +0000 http://thisamericanriver.com/?page_id=137#comment-1374 Just one correction to the narrative. The Nereid Boat House that burned in 1962 on the Belleville side of the river, about a half-mile south of the Belleville-Kearney bridge, was not on a barge. It was on solid ground at the south end of a small Belleville park that extended up the west bank of the river all the way to the bridge. That boathouse had been located further down river in Newark at an earlier time and was floated up-river on a barge to the Belleville site. From 1948 to 1962 both Bellieville and Nutley High Schools were the man athletes using the club - a rowing program started by Nereid member (and champion sculler) Bill Bennett who served as coach to both high schools for a salary of $1.00 per year. A few years after the disastrous 1962 fire the original two high schools added Kearney's high school to the program and a new boathouse was built just upriver from the old Nereid site and on the Kearney side of the river. That new boathouse is on Kearney municipal property and was not connected with the then dormant Nereid Boat Club, of which I was a member from 1949 to 1953. Just one correction to the narrative. The Nereid Boat House that burned in 1962 on the Belleville side of the river, about a half-mile south of the Belleville-Kearney bridge, was not on a barge. It was on solid ground at the south end of a small Belleville park that extended up the west bank of the river all the way to the bridge. That boathouse had been located further down river in Newark at an earlier time and was floated up-river on a barge to the Belleville site. From 1948 to 1962 both Bellieville and Nutley High Schools were the man athletes using the club – a rowing program started by Nereid member (and champion sculler) Bill Bennett who served as coach to both high schools for a salary of $1.00 per year. A few years after the disastrous 1962 fire the original two high schools added Kearney’s high school to the program and a new boathouse was built just upriver from the old Nereid site and on the Kearney side of the river. That new boathouse is on Kearney municipal property and was not connected with the then dormant Nereid Boat Club, of which I was a member from 1949 to 1953.

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