page_title: Rowing Club Argentino
section_title: Consolidation
hierarchical_section_title: Rowing Club Argentino / History / Consolidation
caption_attribution_description: English: The first building of Rowing Club Argentino.
context_page_description: Rowing Club Argentino is an Argentine rowing club sited in Tigre, Buenos Aires, 30-km distance from the Buenos Aires autonomous city. The institution –established in 1905– was one of the pioneers in the practise of the sport in Argentina.
context_section_description: The institution was founded on April 14, 1905 in Buenos Aires. Founding members met at the Ernesto Tornquist office to establish a club that encouraged the practise of rowing. The members that attend the assembly were Henry M. Edye, Samuel Kay (son), Henry B. Elliot, Jorge F. Elliot, Ramón L. de Oliveira César, Martin E. Miguens, Ernesto C. Simons and Enrique Jorge. Four of them were members of Buenos Aires Rowing Club (the oldest rowing club of Argentina, founded in 1873) and the rest came from Tigre Boat Club.
  On September, the members committee approved the purchase of a 2,311 m2 land on the Luján River margins. The transaction had a cost of M$N 5,000, therefore the first building would be constructed there (with a cost of M$S 19,000). The money came from a loan and a mortgage. It was opened on May 6, 1906. The RCA had 201 members by then, that used the 11 boats and one racing shell.
  The club debuted in the first official competition on November 11, 1908. Rowing Club Argentino achieved its first international trophies with two borrowed boats: the "Club de Regatas La Marina" and "Copa Mihanovich" competitions.
  In 1910, Jorge Casares became president of the club, starting a period of 40 years managing the RCA. The second RCA building was opened in 1922, in the same place where the first seat had been constructed. The building was designed by architects Ezequiel Real de Azúa and Miguel Madero (selected through a competitive process which more than 30 professionals took part) at a cost of M$S 300,000.
  The RAC was also the first rowing club to organise a long-distance regatta in Argentina, on June 1, 1930. The race runs on Luján River, Canal Arias and the mouth of Carapachay River on the Paraná de las Palmas, covering a distance of 25 km.
caption: First RCA building, inaugurated in 1906
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