This year’s Sloan Critchfield Memorial Boat Maintenance Weekend was a tremendous success. Pine Island’s fleet of beautiful wooden boats is ready for the 2025 camp season thanks to a terrific group of volunteers led by alum and builder, Cody Smith. But, it’s not just about working on the boats. It’s about honoring the memory of our friend, Sloan Critchfield, a Pine Island camper and counselor and lover of boats who died in 2004 when he was just twenty years old. Everyone who knew Sloan still misses him, and it is fitting that an annual gathering at Pine Island to care for our fleet of beautiful wooden boats is in his memory.
Special thanks to our generous volunteers, including Austin Barr, Dan Bristol, Gene and Heidi Brown, Ben Cabot, Sawyer Carson, Tom Disario, Whit Fisher, Miles Frank, Byron Gaspard and Andrea Salas, Justin Gaspard, Ryan, Ian, and Owen Gilbert, Charles Hale, Thomas Hallett, Doug Handy, Isaac Karchmer, Robin Pfahning and Ramunas and Lukas Balcetis, Will and Ethan Pomerantz, AJ Powers, Akul Sethi, Satchel Toole and Monica Manning, Josh Treat, Peter Tulupman, Peter and Otey Ward and staff members Ben Swan, Hannah Gordon, Silas Hunter, Drake Loomis, and Alex Toole.
If you haven’t attended a Sloan Critchfield Memorial Boat Maintenance Weekend, come on up next September! It’s well worth the trip.
