Revised:  09/22/2007

Our boathouse is newly renovated thanks to the vision, generosity and untiring efforts of a core cast of our members.  There are five full-length boat bays housing club shells from singles, doubles, pairs, fours with and without coxswain, quads, and light and heavyweight eights.  We own and maintain an outstanding combination of Empacher, Hudson, Filippi and Vespoli shells for both training and competition.  We have single and double wherries for recreational rowing and training as well as several training singles for club use.

Members may store their own shells in the boathouse or in a fully protected outbuilding near the dock.

The boathouse now contains two full offices, a boat captain's workshop, and a large multi-purpose room where our twenty plus Concept2 rowing machines and weightlifting machines face the water through large plate-glass windows.

The facility now includes a kitchen, large locker rooms, showers and bathrooms for men and women, all up to ADEA standards for accessibility to people of all abilities.

The club also owns four coaching launches all tied at the city's new double-width dock, which is capable of launching two eights and two doubles simultaneously.  We also own two trailers for hauling boats to away competitions.

The hours are 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., seven days a week.  Parking is free.

The Pete Archer boathouse is home to LBRA, its Long Beach Junior Crew (LBJC), the California Adaptive Rowing Program (CARP), the national team hopefuls and national team members in the Elite Rowing Group (ERG) as well as the CSU-Long Beach Men's and Women's Crew, so every level of rowing is represented here--novice through international competitor, Jr. through master.  We are especially proud of the recent surge in our master's (21+) women's rowing membership.

LBRA houses an excellent collection of rowing shells from training wherries and singles to the finest racing shells made. Our Membership includes the use of all club owned equipment: shells, rowing machines and free weights (certain shells are reserved for racing only). Storage for private boats can be rented on a space available basis.

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The Long Beach Rowing Association (LBRA) is a community-based volunteer organization dedicated to the promotion of the sport of rowing since 1932. We have both recreational and competitive rowing programs starting at the age often years old until long after retirement age for both men and women.

We are very proud that in 2001 our high school junior program for the first time ever won medals in both men's and women's events at the National Championships. This extends to five (5) years in a row the string of medals earned at the National's including three (3) championship titles. Also, for the first time we have placed rowers on all three USA National Teams (Junior, Nations Cup and Senior Worlds). Since 1967 a total of 162 LBRA athletes or coaches have represented the United States in international competition for Olympic, World or Pan American regattas. This extended our current string of World medals produced to four years in a row.

LBRA men and woman master rowers continued (a now club tradition) to win Gold's at US National and World Championship. The master men (sixty plus) and master women are some of the most accomplished rowers in the world in their age groups. The newest addition to the boathouse, our Adaptive-rowing program for the second year won a National Championship.

However everyone at our club is here to have fun. Our recreational rowers enjoy the same waters on which some of the fastest in the world train. For many members this is their first sport ever. They come in all different sizes and fitness levels. Come join mothers taking a break from parenthood and many others with their own special story as they enjoy rowing on Alamitos Bay site of the 1932 Olympic and 1997 USRowing National Championships.

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