Port Ben Boat Club

Listen to Kahaksink-Rondout & join the club!
Gretchen Burger + Sarah Cameron Sunde

Port Ben Boat Club evolved from  Kahaksink-Rondoutings, a project where, with our local community, we activated connections to the Rondout Creek watershed and each other by creating experiential access points. Learning about the original Port Ben Boat Club, which existed in the early 1900s when the D&H Canal ran through Port Ben and 30% more water flowed through the creek banks (before the Rondout Reservoir was built), captured our imaginations and inspired this new work.

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Port Ben Boat Club @ Stay Frosty for 2026 Upstate Art Weekend | Artport Kingston 

Works on Water brings a boat to the tailgate. Climb inside for a sensory water-based experience of the Rondout Creek.

In collaboration with Works on Water, we brought Port Ben Boat Club to Artport Kingston for Upstate Art Weekend, June 25-28, 2026. Visitors climbed into a boat from the club fleet and listened to underwater recordings, captured at Port Ben, of the Rondout Creek. They then were invited to become members of the revived boat club through making one personal commitment to care for the creek.