This patronage permitted members to fly a red ensign with white cross and crown in the centre.

Accommodation at street level consisted of an entrance hall, ballroom, committee room, staircase to the boathouse below and lavatories.

Owen was appointed to provide an extension to be used as a smoking room on the east side of the building, at a cost of £1,316.

In the 2000s architect Michael Collins provided a copper faced extension on the east side of the clubhouse.

[citation needed] Heritage wooden boats sailed in the club include Glens and Water Wag.

The Water Wags are the oldest One-Design dinghy class in the world, having been founded in 1887, but the boats raced in the George are the revised design of 1900.