HBARC

Welcome to Herne Bay Amateur Rowing Club!

Founded in 1887, Herne Bay Amateur Rowing Club has a long history of competing in the Coastal Amateur Rowing Association (CARA).

HBARC is a completely different experience from your usual sport clubs. Coastal rowing is a physically tough, deeply rewarding sport. If you’re new to the sport there’s no better place to learn and compete than with HBARC!

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Herne Bay Amateur Rowing Club

Herne Bay Amateur Rowing Club

Founded in 1887 and still a thriving coastal club, training all year and competing at coastal regattas throughout Kent and Sussex each summer.

Even after a 24hr ergathon we still managed to get out for a row to make the most of this gorgeous water! See MoreSee Less

February 1st

Herne Bay Amateur Rowing Club
That's a wrap! It wasn't easy, but we did it as a team! Well done to the whole club for taking part and rowing over ONE MILLION meters in 24 #teameffortteameffort💪 See MoreSee Less
A massive well done and thank you to the 32 people that came down to the club during the 24 hours. We started at 8pm on Friday and finished at 8pm Saturday! Pretty much the whole club got involved in some way, so thank you for your involvement and support 🙌🏼Stats for the 24hr ergathon:32 people rowed in total 6 people slept at the clubWatched about 12 films5 people stayed at the club for the whole 24hrs 688,300 metres rowed on the ergos 357,666 metres cycled on the bikesIn total well over 1 million metres were achieved (1,045,966 to be exact)!!!So far we've raised £665, which is an amazing achievement. Thank you to everyone who has donated and helped towards that. Link to the JustGiving site is in the bio if you still want to donate ☝🏼We will put our fundraising efforts towards getting one of our more used four and quad boats Dave and Debby re-conditioned (which can cost up to about £3,000 😬). Challenges completed:* Well done to Luke who rowed the quickest 1k in 3.14 mins!!* Well done to Harry Roberts for being the ~oldest~ wisest rower 😉* Well done to Briony Care for rowing from Herne Bay to Calais (105km) (she took the ferry back though! 😉)* Well done to James Dawkins who rowed consistently for four hours continuously and rowed a marathon in that time! Well done all 🙌🏼 See MoreSee Less