Austin Rowing Club

10/22/2026

We decided to revive one of our favorites! 🎃
Grab your limited edition 1993 Pumpkin Head ll shirt!

Supplies are limited!
https://austin-rowing-club-merch.square.site/

10/18/2026

Head of the Charles 📍

10/16/2026

☎️ Fall is calling 🍂🎃

10/04/2026

Spooky Season at the boathouse 🎃👻

09/01/2026

45 YEARS OF ARC | REGATTAS ON LADY BIRD LAKE 🚣🏆

For decades, Austin Rowing Club hasn’t just raced — we’ve welcomed the rowing community to Austin.

From the Heart of Texas Regatta to PumpkinHead Regatta, ARC has brought rowers, teams, families, and spectators to Lady Bird Lake for unforgettable days of racing in the heart of Austin.

These regattas have become part of ARC’s 45-year history, creating countless races, friendships, traditions, and memories along the way.

📸 We want to see yours! Share your favorite Heart of Texas, PumpkinHead, or other ARC regatta memory or photo in the comments.

❤️ Celebrate 45 years with a $45 gift and help us keep Austin rowing for the next 45.

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JJ2BTRXM2L7FE

08/26/2026

08/25/2026

45 YEARS OF ARC | IT STARTED WITH ONE BOAT ❤️💙

This year, Austin Rowing Club is celebrating 45 years, and over the coming weeks we’re going to dig into the stories, people, boats, races, and moments that made ARC what it is today.

And where better to start than the very beginning?

ARC started with a single wooden eight and a simple mission: teach any and all how to row.

There was just one problem. The boat wasn’t in Austin.

ARC’s first shell, a donated wooden Donoratico eight, had made its way from New York to Boston and eventually Madison, Wisconsin, where it was still 1,200 miles from its new home.

Months later, two Austinites borrowed a trailer from Oklahoma, drove to Wisconsin, and started the long journey home. Along the way, icy roads sent the trailer and its fragile wooden boat skidding into a ditch, damaging both.

So some of ARC’s earliest recruits weren’t handed oars.

They were handed tools and sandpaper.

Together, they repaired and varnished the boat until it was finally ready for the water. Soon, that wooden eight was traveling up and down Town Lake, attracting experienced rowers and complete beginners who shared the same love of moving a boat through water.

On August 18, 1981, Austin Rowing Club was officially incorporated. Sam Martin was elected ARC’s first president, and membership had already grown to approximately 50 people.

Forty-five years later, we’re still here.

What started with one wooden eight has grown into a community that has introduced generations of Austinites to rowing, paddling, competition, recreation, and Lady Bird Lake.

As we celebrate our 45th anniversary, we’re asking the ARC community to help us continue what those first members started.

❤️ Give $45 for 45 years and help us build the next 45.

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JJ2BTRXM2L7FE

Were you part of ARC’s early years? We’d love to hear your stories. Share a memory in the comments or post an old ARC photo below!

08/23/2026

We are excited to officially launch our Merchandise Store! Now selling ARC gear! Need any fall hoodies or sweaters? PREORDER NOW!

Available for pick up at the boathouse or delivery 👀🎉

https://austin-rowing-club-merch.square.site/

08/22/2026

1981 ➡️ 2026
Same location, different boathouse. How the skyline around us has changed! We are proud to have been here in downtown Austin for the last 45 years! And we look forward to serving the Austin community for years to come ❤️