It has occupied its current location at the foot of Ferry St, Glebe since the club's inception.

GRC is a community based club with a focus on novice, women's and social rowing and with a learn-to-row program.

[1] During the first ten years of the club's history it was the third most successful in Sydney winning 24 of the 260 races rowed between 1880 and 1890.

However, the club's decision to pay part of the capitation fees for its members of the New South Wales 1902 interstate crew caused considerable internal dissension, with a special meeting censuring the committee and several committee members then resigning.

Glebe and the Mosman Rowing Club started the trend in 1915, with Enterprise and Balmain quickly following the example.