Atlanta Rowing Club
The River
From our boathouse on the Chattahoochee river we can row about two miles upstream until the GA400 bridge, and about four miles downstream to Morgan Falls.
The map below shows the various sandbars (in light blue; they are moving obstacles...; the ARC boathouse is on the very top in the picture) that have to be navigated; varying water levels will expose more or less of these obstacles and great care must be taken to steer a course that stays away from them.
Here's another map of our river; more maps are on our Yahoo! Group message board.
Water levels can vary greatly - this site shows the current level at Morgan Falls; a level of about 862 indicates the lower end of rowable conditions. That site also gives you windspeed on the river. The speed of water flow you can see here.
The usable rowing channel can be quite narrow at lower water levels and it "snakes" between the shorelines and the sandbards; rowers must be very careful hugging the starboard edge of that channel, avoiding the sandbars as much as collisions with on-coming boat traffic.
Launching from our docks, all boats are required to leave in the downstream direction, since our docks are lying in the downstream rowing channel. The upstream channel is on the other side of the island - if crews want to row upstream, they still have to leave the docks downstream and then row around the island (and the extensive sandbar below it) before they can row upstream on the south side of the river.
Rowing Essentials
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May 10, 2008 Board meeting |
National Learn To Row Day
Free rowing clinics at the ARC on Saturday, June 7th
Know the ARC Ten Commandments
Current river water level, water flow and wind speed at...
Morgan Falls
Roswell
Busy Coaching Times:
CTR
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Sat 9am
Sun 1pm
Competitive
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Sun 4pm
Pre-Elite
Jun, Jul, Aug
daily, excpt Sun
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LTR
Apr, Jun, Aug
Wed 6pm
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Sun 11am