Staffing the program is a corps of On-Water Program Assistants, all former On-Water students. Program Assistants have a great deal of on-the-job training from their experience helping to teach and lead On-Water classes with Rocking the Boat's primary On-Water Program.

Rocking the Boat offers a special, multiple-day training to certify community members to be able to take boats out on their own. The Boat Captain Certification Program involves CPR and First Aid training, as well as a prerequisite of a certain number of hours logged out on the water, and enables a much deeper level of community engagement in Rocking the Boat's programming and in the use of the Hunts Point Riverside Park waterfront.

Interactive community events such as the Mid-Semester Open House and the End-of-Semester Boat Launch Celebration include rowing that complement the Community Rowing Program. Rocking the Boat also offers public rowing opportunities at various other community events such as Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival and the Bronx River Alliance's Amazing Bronx River Flotilla.

The Community Rowing Program is based out of Hunts Point Riverside Park, adjacent to Rocking the Boat's Bronx River site, located at the intersection of Lafayette Ave. and Edgewater Road, Bronx, NY.