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CHaOS Rowing: Home of Rowing on Jordan Lake
Are you addicted to rowing? Do you feel an irresistible urge to get the boat flying over the water, resulting in blisters and sore muscles? Would you like to be part of a cool, diverse, accomplished group of people from all corners of the world, from interesting professions and many religions, from 5’4″ to 6’10”, some with really strange accents who found a home away from home in CHaOS?

If your answer is “yes,” then CHaOS is the right club for you.

We invite everybody to come row with us – sweep rower, sculler, man, woman, from around the corner, from around the world.

As a club, we pride ourselves in:
• On all skill levels, striving to row better, row faster, and have fun doing it.
• A high-end fleet of Stampfli, Filippi, and Hudson boats (and the token Empacher) paired with Croker oars (and a few of the other brands, too).
• We buy boats from our friends, who in turn go out of their way to build the boats we need: Stampfli quads with additional freeboard (Phil Gregory), a stern-coxed 4+ (David Filippi), and Big Dude 4x and 2x with average crew weight of 250 pounds (Glen of Hudson Boatworks). Darren Croker provides our oars also, when we travel to regattas where we cannot take our own.
• Competitive ambitions on all levels – from our fun CHaOS Challenge to the FISA Masters World Championships – and all races we can get to in between.
• Building and maintaining the rowing infrastructure at Crosswinds Boating Center (our generous landlord).
• We also served as midwives for the birth of Jordan Lake Rowing Club, who uses the same infrastructure, and for the RowNC Adaptive program.
• Giving back to the community through our support for the Valor Games Southeast, adaptive rowing at Lake Crabtree, and spearheading the initiative (aka our dream) for an aquatic center at Bell’s Landing, providing a safe home for all non-motorized water sports.

We row on North Carolina’s Jordan Lake out of Crosswinds Boating Center.