Next to a glistening Tamar River on Thursday morning rowing club president Alan Weeding spoke proudly of the resilience and dedication of patrons.

The club was a beneficiary of $300,000 from the state government’s Community Infrastructure Fund.

Mr Weeding said the state funding would build and finish clubrooms on a second storey which he hopes “for the next hundred years will keep our head and feet above water”.

Mr Weeding acknowledged the long road back from the 2016 floods when the club “was on its knees”.

“To the credit of club members we’ve pulled ourselves together and it is a stronger club now than it was before,” he said.

With most of its premier sculls in Sydney for a competition, the club escaped some loss.

“The next flood could come next week, next year or in ten years time,” he said. 

“We are quite certain this design will future-proof us for another hundred years.”

The club has about 110 members.

Mr Weeding expected tenders would be released within the next fortnight before construction begins in October or November.

He said a levee bank constructed around the clubhouse prevented most king tides and minor flooding from entering the clubhouse.

“There’s always going to be a big flood that’s going to go over the top of that and this was the first we’ve had breaching our levee bank in the last 18 years,” he said.

“It’s very hard to protect yourself again from that really large flood which could happen at any time again.”

Bass MHA Sarah Courtney said the development represented a significant milestone in the history of the nation’s oldest continuous rowing club.

“We saw these club rooms absolutely annihilated but within days we had all the club members down here fixing facilities, volunteering their time and with a number of weeks we saw junior rowers back out on the river,” she said. 

Premier Will Hodgman said the funding would build the future of Tasmanians who would row from the club.