The club promotes canoeing and kayaking, focusing on flatwater, sprint and marathon disciplines.
Members of the club have represented Great Britain at World Championships and the Olympic Games.
He went on extensive tours on the rivers and canals of Central and Northern Europe and the Mid-east in a boat he designed named the 'Rob Roy'.
This is now known as The Paddling Challenge, and runs every year as the oldest canoe race in the world.
A coaching structure is in place that can see children not only advance and become phenomenal athletes, but they also learn a lot about themselves, life and each other.
Recently, Royal Canoe Club have employed a head coach - Beata Fabinska.
The top group Abraham is named after Attila Ábrahám, a Hungarian kayaking legend.
Along with Brabants, the club membership includes several world championship medallists (among them Alan Williams, Grayson Bourne, Chris Canham, Steve Jackson, Jeremy West) and Ian Wynne who won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Athens 2004.
In 1922, Edward, Prince of Wales (later to become the Duke of Windsor), became Commodore, a position he held until he acceded the throne.
A notable member of the club was Warington Baden-Powell, brother of Lord Baden Powell.