[2] The club now operates out of a shared boathouse on the river Stour at Iford and is affiliated to British Rowing.

At the Annual Dinner of 1870 Cutler, the Captain of the Club referred to having two heavy Punts of unequal size and that racing was hardly practical even with a handicap.

Sir Henry Drummond Wolff who was then the Parliamentary candidate for Christchurch and Bournemouth presented the club with a four oared racing galley called the Lothair, which was the title of a novel by the Earl of Beaconsfield.

Bournemouth had just purchased the Test so the challenge was out - a £20 stake placed for a four-mile race to be rowed before the end of June.

In 2010, the club was forced out of its boathouse located next to the Central Pier on the West Beach, after being evicted by Bournemouth Borough Council to make way for redevelopment of the neighbouring Oceanarium.