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Facilities: The clubhouse, site and facilities at ACRC
Avon County Rowing Club is located in Saltford, about half-way between Bath and Bristol. We row on the River Avon, where we have about four kilometres of quiet water, including a straight of about 1250 metres.
Whilst the club house facilities are somewhat "low-tech", we have recently completed a number of schemes to improve the site and clubhouse facilities. These include the renovation of a side boathouse including new racking and concrete flooring, the concreting of the boathouse wide slipway and the concreting of 40 metres of the river bank.
In partnership with Bristol University we have recently installed two brand new 13 metre launching pontoons in addition to our existing one, enabling the launch and retrieval of several boats simultaneously in most river conditions!.
We continue to make small improvements to both the quality and security of the buildings but we do however recognise the requirement for a major improvement on the site.
The standard of boating equipment at Avon County is excellent. This is thanks mainly to some recent grants from the National Lottery and Foundation for Sports and the Arts.
(above) It's Boxing Day 1999 and the Boxing Day Sprints Regatta gets changed to a "who can walk the farthest away from the boathouse without filling their wellies" competition. Rare amounts of rain can cause disruption to rowing activity!
Each year there are three races held on the river at Saltford: Monkton Bluefriars, Bristol University and Avon County HoRR's.
