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End of scheduled paddles for this season.
Please keep an eye on the message boards for pick up paddles and
hikes.
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April 12th
Flatwater Planning Meeting at River Bend Farm from 12:00 to
2:00 pm in
Uxbridge. Coordinator
is Cheryl Thompson 401-497-5887 or
Stonefoxfarm@juno.com
Join us at Visitor Center at River Bend Farm in Uxbridge, MA for
our annual Flatwater Planning Meeting. At this meeting, we will
set up our calendar for the 2025 year, so please bring ideas for
trips. If you would like to lead a trip but do not have
experience, we can partner you up with an experienced leader,
just ask.
We will have party pizza and soda. You may bring a snack or dish
to share, if you wish.
If you have dietary restraints, please bring what you can eat.
The Visitor Center is located at 287 Oak Street, Uxbridge, MA.
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May 17th
Saturday, Spring Cleanup/Paddle – River’s Edge Park, Woonsocket
Meet
at 9:30 am for a 10:00 am launch.
Trip Coordinator:
Gary Powers
garpow28@aol.com
For
our Spring cleanup/paddle this year, we will put in on
river-right of the Blackstone River at the River’s Edge boat
ramp abutting River’s Edge Recreational Complex & Dog Park.
Partnering with Keep Blackstone Valley
Beautiful (KBVB) and The Great Global Cleanup, RICKA will
provide some needed environmental stewardship of the Blackstone
River.
Concentrating mainly on easily
captured trash such as bottles, cans, and wrappers we will be
part of a global program tracking collected debris.
This year’s Spring/Earth Day theme
is "OUR POWER, OUR PLANET”.
Bags, gloves, and a limited number
of reaching tools will be available however, please feel free to
bring your own gloves/tools.
Also, if anyone prefers to stay on
land, there are plenty of opportunities to gather trash with
KBVB or your friends and family within the park itself.
River’s
Edge Boat Launch (Location
Link)
The River’s Edge Recreational Complex &
Dog Park is located down an access road, the entrance of which
is located at 135 Davison Ave., Woonsocket RI.
Use the
Location Link
provided for direction and
follow
the access road for ¼ mi to the boat ramp.
Changes and cancellations to trips will be posted on the
flatwater message
board.
Please check the board before leaving for any trip. Our
coordinators provide directions as a courtesy to paddlers
however, you are responsible to refer to a map and
familiarize yourself with the trip location.
Any paddle sport is an assumed risk sport. Some aspects of
canoeing and kayaking involve the risk of serious injury or
death. The Rhode Island Canoe and Kayak Association, although
safety conscious, cannot guarantee your personal safety in club
activities.
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Changes and cancellations to trips will be posted on the
flatwater message
board.
Please check the board before leaving for any trip. Our
coordinators provide directions as a courtesy to paddlers
however, you are responsible to refer to a map and
familiarize yourself with the trip location.
Any paddle sport is an assumed risk sport. Some aspects of
canoeing and kayaking involve the risk of serious injury or
death. The Rhode Island Canoe and Kayak Association, although
safety conscious, cannot guarantee your personal safety in club
activities.
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Changes and cancellations to trips will be posted on the
flatwater message
board.
Please check the board before leaving for any trip. Our
coordinators provide directions as a courtesy to paddlers
however, you are responsible to refer to a map and
familiarize yourself with the trip location.
Any paddle sport is an assumed risk sport. Some aspects of
canoeing and kayaking involve the risk of serious injury or
death. The Rhode Island Canoe and Kayak Association, although
safety conscious, cannot guarantee your personal safety in club
activities.
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Changes and cancellations to trips will be posted on the
flatwater message
board.
Please check the board before leaving for any trip. Our
coordinators provide directions as a courtesy to paddlers
however, you are responsible to refer to a map and
familiarize yourself with the trip location.
Any paddle sport is an assumed risk sport. Some aspects of
canoeing and kayaking involve the risk of serious injury or
death. The Rhode Island Canoe and Kayak Association, although
safety conscious, cannot guarantee your personal safety in club
activities.
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Changes and cancellations to trips will be posted on the
flatwater message
board.
Please check the board before leaving for any trip. Our
coordinators provide directions as a courtesy to paddlers
however, you are responsible to refer to a map and
familiarize yourself with the trip location.
Any paddle sport is an assumed risk sport. Some aspects of
canoeing and kayaking involve the risk of serious injury or
death. The Rhode Island Canoe and Kayak Association, although
safety conscious, cannot guarantee your personal safety in club
activities.
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The people who coordinate RICKA trips
are responsible for setting a meeting time and how to get to
the put-in and take-out. The trip coordinators are unpaid
volunteers who are not professionals. They are not and
cannot be responsible for determining the adequacy of your
skill level, your personal safety, well-being, or happiness. Tri
Trip coordinators:
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At this time
of year, wetsuits or drysuits are REQUIRED.
You will not be allowed to paddle with the group if you do
not comply. If you are weating a wetsuit, please bring a
change of clothes.
Our first on-water meeting/paddle of the
season is the signal that summer is here! For those new to
the club, a group paddle or event replaces the more
structured meetings of fall through spring, and takes place
on the third Monday evening of the month.
Sudbury River
Meet at 10:00 for a 10:30 shuttle Trip coordinator: Erik Eckilson
617-794-0378 eckilson@cox.net
This trip has been cancelled. We will try to reschedule it.
Sudbury River – Wayland to Concord
We will put-in at Sherman’s Bridge Road in Wayland and
paddled down to Lowell Road in Concord - about 8 miles.
For much of the trip, the Sudbury meanders through
marshland of the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. We
swill stop for lunch at Brooke Island at Fairhaven Bay.
Those who are interested can continue a short distance past
the take out to visit the Old North Bridge in the Minuteman
National Historic Park.
Put-in: 72 Sherman's Bridge
Rd, Wayland, MA 01778
https://maps.app.goo.gl/McRcBeWF1PsrsUY19
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