The Bair Island Aquatic Center (BIAC) is a nonprofit community in Silicon Valley focused on human-powered water sports such as rowing, sculling, paddling, and dragon boating.

BIAC offers year-round competitive and recreational programs to our beginning class graduates and to experienced rowers or paddlers.

Learn To Row 2009
April through August 2009

International Dragon Boat Festival
September 26- 27, 2009

U.S. SurfSki Championships
August 21-23, 2009

4th Annual Corkscrew Regatta
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Bair Island, Redwood City, CA

17th Annual Fall Regatta
Sunday, November 16, 2008
San Mateo Marina Lagoon

Paddling Update
Spring 2008

Located in Redwood City, CA; BIAC provides protected access to the water surrounding Bair Island, the largest remaining restorable wetlands in the South San Francisco Bay.

For more information about BIAC, see Getting Started or explore the links on the left side of this page.

Self portrait, Axel Altermann, BIAC member