About this club
Salt Spring Island Rowing Club is a Rowing BC organisation on Salt Spring Island. Its current site places more than six decades of local rowing on St. Mary Lake and offers year-round activity for adults and young people.
Programmes include learn-to-row, youth rowing, adult rowing and coastal rowing. Experienced visiting rowers can also buy one, five or ten drop-in rows without taking a full membership.
The club’s young athletes train in a competitive programme whose crews race at national level each year. Its growing masters programme provides recreational and competitive rowing for adults. A 2025 row-a-thon raised $40,225 for the junior programme.
Salt Spring’s signature event is Race Around the Rock, an 88-kilometre coastal endurance relay. Adult, junior and mixed crews race a full circumnavigation of Salt Spring Island in coastal and open-water shells.
The event appears on Rowing BC’s regatta calendar as a coastal relay attracting rowers from British Columbia and beyond. The club’s current schedule lists the next Race Around the Rock for August 2026, with both crew and solo entry routes.
Upcoming competitions hosted by Salt Spring Island Rowing Club
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