The records of the Banks Peninsula Cruising Club include minutes; ledgers; correspondence; press clippings; photographs (including negatives) and reports.

Key records within the collection include two copies of "For those who sailed", verses by Elsie Locke inspired by the loss of two yachts in a storm during the Wellington-Lyttelton Centennial Yacht Race, 1951 and photocopies of police telegrams concerning, and photographs of, Count Felix von Luckner, German prisoner of war on Ripapa Island, 1917-1918.

Also includes negatives of the Club's historical photographs, including a Dec. 1901 print of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ship Discovery in dry dock at Lyttelton, in preparation for Scott's 1901-1904 Antarctic expedition. There are also two portraits of Count Felix von Luckner, and a print of his ship Seeadler, given to the Club when he visited them in 1938.