Rowing On The Hudson River

You may recall that I posted about Albany's rowing crew practicing on the Hudson River several weeks ago. They were near the opposite shore the day I took those videos. But I saw them recently on the Rensselaer (eastern) shore of the Hudson River and grabbed my camera for a couple of quick videos.

I was on my way home from work and so were lots of other people. The road noise is therefore rather loud and the wind noise is added on top of it, so don't set your speakers too high.

The first rowing shell had only two people in it and led the way:


Not too far behind them came three more vessels, two rowing shells and a motorboat. The man in the motorboat was not barking instructions as far as I could tell, but having general friendly conversations with the rowers:

Sunset Hudson River Rowing

I was on my way home from work on a cloudy, dreary day when I spotted the Albany Rowing Club out on the Hudson River getting a workout. So I drove down to the shore and grabbed my camera:

There were multiple rowing shells with a motor boat accompanying them. Perhaps that was their coach. In this picture, you can also see Nipper, the giant RCA dog, on top of a building (the white spot on the left):

Just to the south of the rowing crew was the city of Albany's downtown area:

And just to the north was the I90 bridge over the Hudson River, the Patroon Island Bridge:

And 30 seconds of rowing. Nipper is pretty clear in the video. The large amount of road noise is from rush hour traffic all around the area. You can see the cars and trucks rushing northward on Rte 787 on the western shore of the Hudson River: