The Shipman Mansion

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Past Commodores of the Red Dragon Canoe Club 1887-88 Woodward T. Norgrave* 1951 Warren A. Brown 1889-91 Charles B. Haag 1952 Philip Somervell 1892-93 Fred T. Noyes 1953 William Elmer 1894 H. E. McCormick 1954 William Allen Wood 1895-96 Alvin S. Fenimore 1955 Loius H. Kite 1897 W. J. Scott 1956 George W. Rhawn, Jr. 1898 Harry W. Fleischman 1957 Ingo L. Stephen 1899 Joseph E. Murray 1958 Richard B. Parker 1900 Edwin W. Hemingway 1959-60 Arthur Were 1901 Maurice D. Wilt 1961 George W. Rhawn, Jr. 1902 Omar Shallcross 1962-64 Rodman Merrill 1903 William K. Park 1965-66 Richard Gross 1904 John C. Maclister 1967-68 Edward H. Weiss 1905-06 Clifton D. Mitchell 1969 Richard E Godfrey 1907 Alfred D Shaw 1970 George L. Betz 1908 Edward K. Merrill 1971 Keith L. Young 1909 Edward R. Colman 1972 Arthur Ries 1910 J. Augustus Edgar 1973-74 William J. O'Leary 1911 Clayton C. Wilson 1975-77 John C. Perkins, Sr. 1912 Frank Wilson 1978-79 John J. Owens, Jr. 1913-15 S. Lawrence Woodhouse 1980 Siegrfrien Boysen 1916 W. H. Logan Jr. 1981 Donald J. Lewis 1917-18 S. Lawrence Woodhouse 1982 Russell E. Long 1919-21 William H. Britton 1983 Daniel M Curran 1922 Walter B. Masland 1984 Stephan Doran 1923 Henry B. Fort 1985-87 Frank J. Keenan 1923-25 William J Gold 1988-90 Ken Shuttleworth 1926 August H. Wahl 1991-93 Edwin B. Leaf 1927-28 Christian P Ehlenfeild 1994-96 F. Curtis Davis 1929-31 Joseph H Newhouse 1997-98 William Van Keuren 1932 Edward R. Coleman 1999-00 Thomas Norton 1933-37 August H. Wahl 2001 Curt Davis 1938 Andrew C McQueen 2002 Mark Lavenberg 1939 John J. Newhouse 2003-04 Don Stokes 1940 Charles K Polk 2005-06 Bob Medeiros 1941-47 August H. Wahl 2007-08 Bertram Redgrave 1948 Clinton Server 1949 Douglas S. Marshall 1950 Robert H Levin *The Keystone Canoe Club edit website footer Ask Us A Question.We’re on call 24/7 and respond in well under an hour.Visit Our Help Site.Watch our helpful videos or search our guides.Review the Mode Walkthrough.Refresh yourself about the editing modes.+

Great Food and Great Times at the 2014 Annual Mess held at Kove Caterers

Paul Schopp, noted historian, discussed steamboats and forgotten canoe camps along the Rancocas to a packed audience.

Great times at the Dragon

Mike Dmochowski presented a handcrafted plaque showing the date the Shipman Mansion was built.

Members pulled the docks, raked leaves, split wood, prepared the Shipman for the winter months and decorated the halls for the coming holidays

The Independence Seaport Museum’s staff and volunteers rowed two wooden whaleboats 17.2 miles up the Delaware River to Edgewater Park, NJ’s Red Dragon Canoe Club. Both whaleboats were built in the Museum’s Workshop on the Water as part of the Seaport’s S.A.I.L.O.R educational program. The Independence Seaport Museum’s two whaleboats left the dock in Philly at the Seaport Museum and arrived at the Red Dragon Canoe Club approximately 7 hours later.

Lou Gallagher and Astra Haldeman, when they were young, learned to sail at the Red Dragon Canoe Club and then became instructors in the club’s non-profit corporation, the Delaware River Sailing School. They both went on to distinguished collegiate careers, but they did not leave sailing behind. When Lou returned from a fellowship in South Africa and Astra completed her fellowship in New Zealand, they moved to Maine, where eventually they would marry. They both got Coast Guard captain’s licenses and they both found jobs – Lou as the captain of various vessels and Astra working in her field of Museum administration. This year, after Lou had spent several summers as skipper of the Friendship Sloop Helen Brooks in Northeast Harbor, ME, Astra joined him as full time first mate. By then, they had moved aboard their own classic, gaff-rigged wooden Tahiti Ketch, living in her cozy confines even through the winter. The sailing school where Astra and Lou met and began their life’s story together is gone now, replaced by a new, community-oriented non-profit corporation, the Shipman Mansion Foundation, whose mission is to preserve the historic Shipman Mansion – the Red Dragon’s home – and to educate the public about the community’s maritime heritage. This fall, Astra and Lou re headed south for the winter aboard the ketch Evelyn. In the next few days, they will sail up the Delaware River to their home town, Florence. First, they will pass the Red Dragon, where their life under sail began. Members of the Red Dragon will be at the club’s waterfront to welcome them home as they sail by and to celebrate the club’s legacy of promoting sailing on the Delaware River and the Shipman Mansion Foundation’s new role in the Edgewater Park community. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/229482351.html

The Thistle Class sailing at The Red Dragon.

Costumes, great food and a lively band at Red Dragon's Halloween Party

John Lawrence, research archeologist, led a fascinating discussion of many of his archeological finds in the area and the history of the Lenape Indians.

The Burlington Island Race is one of Red Dragon's historic races won this year by Pilgrim Shadow captained by Tom Gilman.

Ed Leaf, a model ship expert, presented a few of his many ship models at The Red Dragon on September 25, 2013. Ed entertained the audience with many anecdotes and stories about each ship.

Great location and a great time. Join us for friendship and fun.

Red Dragon supported Edgewater Park Community Day with a colorful display showing the Red Dragon.

If you have a boat that you would be interested in donating, please let us know. These are before and after pictures of a GP-14 that was restored after years of neglect and is now ready to be sailed.