About us

CLRC is open to the general public and caters for all aspects of rowing, with a particular focus on junior/youth development.  The Club’s commitment is to ensure that all members have quality coaching, supervised training programs and a wide variety of high standard equipment, together with support and encouragement for rowers to achieve their individual potential, work as a member of highly integrated teams and enjoy rowing.

The Club was established in 1998 to promote rowing into the general community with a particular focus on junior development. The Club offers a full range of rowing for all categories of members. The club works on the basis of ensuring, to the best of its ability, that members can row to the highest possible technical standard. The Club ensures its members are aware of all of the opportunities that are open to them in the sport and encourages them to identify their long-term goals. The coaches are then able to work with the member to develop programs enabling the member to achieve these goal.

The Club starts all novice rowers by teaching them to scull. Rowers then progress to using sweep oars when they are sufficiently developed. The Club has a policy of careful management of younger sweep rowers (those training for Under 17 level events) to ensure that its junior members are protected through their early year of their physical development.

The Club does not differentiate between junior and senior members and expects all members to contribute to the operation and functioning of the Club. The Club views its operations as an opportunity for juniors to become involved in an active way in the management of a vibrant organization with juniors encouraged to take a role on the club committee as a way of helping prepare them for life at and after school.

The Club participates in the full range of events and activities in the sport at the Junior, Senior and Masters level. In the ACT we participate in local regattas, the Winter time trial series and selected rowers participate in the Spring ACTAS sponsored time trial series. We also participate in selected interstate regattas, mainly in NSW, and the National Championships.

History

CLRC was established in December 1998 in the Nissan hut (the igloo, the historic start of rowing in the ACT) on the Kingston foreshore.  In December 2002 CLRC was relocated to a new temporary shed in the same area to allow the Kingston Foreshore development to proceed.  CLRC welcomes other water sports and the boatshed is the home for sea scouts, kayakers and surf lifesaving squads.

Old Shed	New Shed

Future plans

The area where CLRC is now temporarily located is to become part of the Kingston Foreshore development and CLRC will again move in a few years, with the intention of relocating within the Kingston Foreshore precinct.

Other Activities Using the Shed

The club has made its facilities available to other sports and organizations. The Broulee Surf Lifesaving Club rows their surfboat from Kingston. There is scope for kayaking from the CLRC boat shed. The scout leader-training group also operates from the CLRC boat shed.

Sponsorship

The club has been very fortunate in receiving support from a number of ACT businesses, many individuals and the ACT government. This support has enabled the Club to put together a quality, balanced fleet and equipment for use by its members and ACT representative crews.