The club promotes racing and hosts regattas run by the provincial organization, Voile Québec.
[5] The club is sited on a former railway pier used to load limestone blocks from a nearby quarry in the Village of Saint-Joachim-de-la-Pointe-Claire, as it was then known.
[6] The blocks were loaded onto barges to be floated downriver to the construction site of the Victoria Bridge.
[7] After the bridge was completed, the Pointe-Claire Boating Club formed in 1879 on the pier, leased from the Grand Trunk Railway.
Facilities expanded quickly, and in 1889 made space for the newly-formed St. Lawrence Yacht Club, until they moved to their own site in Dorval.