Without a permanent clubhouse, they met when off the water at the Coal Hole Tavern in Fountain Court alongside many other societies of the day.

The following year, the Lord Mayor unusually granted the use the Coat of arms of the City of London Corporation, which replaced the star in the canton.

[1] Shortly after, the ensign changed again to when the Dowager Queen Adelaide gave the club royal patronage.

Later, evidence[5][6] suggests that in the early 1880s the public house formerly known as the Coal Hole where the club originally met was demolished.

Perhaps for this cause, in 1882 the RLYC re-located to Cowes on the Isle of Wight where it joined the Royal Yacht Squadron to become the second Cowes-based club.