The Smith Boathouse, dedicated on October 5, 2002, sits on the tidal New Meadows River, 4.5 miles from the Bowdoin College campus. The boathouse is complemented by a 110′ long dock which allows us to launch or retrieve 2 eights and a four, or 5 fours simultaneously.
Our dock is about 10 miles (~16K meters) from the Atlantic Ocean. The New Meadows River provides 3000 meters of very protected water, before opening up into a larger bay with both protected coastal waters and an open channel. The majority of our practices take us approximately 4 miles towards the ocean and include a 2k and 5k course.
Directions to the boathouse are available here.
The Fleet
Men’s Fours
Free Speed (Hudson USP)
MMXV (Pocock K4)
Trigger (Pocock K4)
The Polar Express (Resolute)
Will To (Resolute)
James Bowdoin (Vespoli Millenium)
Women’s Fours
The 2015 (Pocock K4)
The Gibbons Family (Pocock K4)
Wm. Brown (Resolute)
Austin List ’45 (Resolute)
Ni Cheallaigh (Vespoli Millenium)
Sam Macartney ’77 (Vespoli Ultralite)
Eights
Grant Dowse ’45 (King)
Seabiscuit (Vespoli)
The Spirit of St. Louis (Vespoli Ultralite)
Pairs & Doubles
Nancy Boyer (Vespoli, Matrix 31)
Trogdor the Burninator (Vespoli, Matrix 33)
The Right and Honorable Tony Blair’s Enduring Friendship (Vespoli, Matrix 33)
T2 (Vespoli, Matrix 31)
WinTech International 2x
Singles
2 Hudsons
2 WinTech
1 Dirigo