The Weyburn Rowing Club held a Learn to Row on Friday and a Beach Sprints competition on the weekend at Nickle Lake Regional Park.
Club Founder and President Sheila Leach said the purpose was to show that rowing can be fun for everyone.
She said the sport in Weyburn has been slowly growing.
"It's not a sport that most people know. So it's a lot harder to draw some people in. That's kind of why we set up the whole Friday, Saturday thing so they can come out and see the sport."
Leach said they had representatives from Saskatchewan Rowing, from Regina, Saskatoon, and Yorkton, to help out with the event, training people, and encouraging more involvement.
"It tends to be thought of as an 'elite' sport and only elite people. We're really trying to break that myth, and make it fun, and the beach sprints is the way to do that, because even the rowers come out for regular regatas, they come out and they're just going to have a blast and just coming out to have fun.
"The nice thing about rowing is [that] the Rowing Club actually will own the boats. So you don't even have to buy boats or anything. The boats and the oars are available for you. Really, it's just a uniform, which is a uni-suit, and then come out and do the exercise in the club and be part of the club.
She said rowing is an excellent cross-training option.
"I say hockey because we've got a few people that were doing hockey and have moved over to rowing and have done wonderful. In fact, one of them, from Regina, is in world competitions. They were in hockey and they've decided to use rowing as a cross-training, and then just turned around the other way that he's done very well in rowing and he's gone supporting Canada and in world rowing."
"We've also been part of the Royal Bank Training Ground. We've got a couple of our athletes that went there and they said, well, we think you'll do better in rowing and they are."