Sixteen UTC shells live on the team trailer outside, where they've sat since 2023. Every hull has weather damage; several have structural damage. The plan is a fleet of eights to race and pairs to train — none of that is possible while the boats are stacked on a trailer in the open. A 20×80 pole barn at the boathouse gets them under cover and onto stretchers we can actually maintain.

UTC's own quad — an Empacher from the 1980s/90s named for the city — is sidelined by a hole in the hull big enough to put a fist through. Patching it returns a competition-grade sculling boat to the water under UTC colors. The crew is racing ACRA this year on a 4x loaned from Vespoli; the Empacher is the boat behind it.

UTC has a room in Maclellan Gymnasium reserved for the team. It needs a clean-out, paint, lights, a roof repair (it leaks, with possible mold), and ergs to outfit it. Year-round training space on campus — not weather-dependent, not borrowed.

This semester the four athletes joined Lookout Rowing Club so they could train and race on water-worthy equipment. LRC keeps the program on the water while the racks and the Empacher repair get funded. Membership and shared-equipment fees are real line items — a bridge, not the destination.