Who we are
Catawba Yacht Club was organized in 1939 to promote boating on the river. The club is family oriented and members row, sail, power boat and enjoy the social events.
Rowing started at the club in 1991 and members built a boathouse for shells a few years afterwards. Catawba Yacht Club is a membership club and members may store their boats in the club's boathouse.
The club owns recreational singles, and racing doubles, quads and fours. Many club members have their own singles. Rowers range in age from the mid-20s to the mid-60s and vary in skill from novices to former collegiate rowers. Many row for fun and exercise and others train for competition. The club participates in several regattas each year including the USRowing Southeast Regional and several fall head races in the region. We have sent rowers to US Nationals and the FISA international masters regatta.
Youth rowing
CYC Rowing partners with Charlotte Youth Rowing, an independent youth rowing program. Please visit their website for all program information.
Membership & rules
Rowing membership runs through Catawba Yacht Club. See membership details and the club rules, and read our SafeSport Compliance Policy.
Patio, boathouses and dock
Club patio overlooking the lake
Many an evening and weekend is spent on the clubhouse patio looking out over the water. Members are welcome to use the facilities, which include an industrial kitchen and a meeting/common room. Sailing and rowing members share the maintenance tasks, the drinks, the food and a common interest in racing on the lake.
The boathouse
The covered boathouse stores the masters and youth racing shells alongside private singles and doubles owned by club members, with oar racks running the length of the building.
New storage addition
A second covered shell house adds racking for more club and member boats, keeping the growing fleet under a roof and out of the weather.
Launch dock
The team dry-launches from this dock, which can handle several smaller shells at once — quads, doubles and singles — and is long enough to launch our eights as well.
A family club with a boathouse full of shells
Catawba Yacht Club was organized in 1939 to promote boating on the river. Members row, sail, power boat and enjoy the social calendar. Rowing began in 1991. The club owns recreational singles plus racing doubles, quads, fours and eights. Many members keep their own private singles here too.
- Clubhouse & lakeside patioIndustrial kitchen, common room and a patio where many evenings end.
- Two covered shell housesThe boathouse plus a new storage addition for club Masters and Youth shells and members' private singles and doubles.
- Launch docksDry-launch docks wide enough for multiple quads and doubles at once, and our eights.