Established in 1909, the Cambridge Boat Club is a not-for-profit rowing and social club with 325 members who compete in regattas around the world. The club is also active in various community outreach programs; cleaning up the Charles River; supporting other rowing organizations on the river including Cambridge Rindge & Latin Rowing, G-Row and Community Rowing; and extending use of our facilities to Senior Citizens and area-wide charity organizations.

Cambridge Boat Club is a very active member of the Cambridge and Charles River communities.

The club hosts the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School (CRLS) rowing program. CRLS has a keen group of school students who row out of the clubhouse in the spring and fall, and compete successfully in regional regattas.

Other Cambridge middle school students have also participated in learn to row programs, designed to generate an early interest in the sport before the kids enter high school.

Cambridge Boat Club was founded by civic minded Cantabrigians who gathered to create a common resource for athletics and socializing. The club was incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on April 7th, 1909. Its declared purpose was to "encourage athletic exercises, boating and yachting and to establish and maintain a place for social meetings".

This is the era when people began to formally take notice of the importance of individuals and groups to marshall their forces, in stewardship of the nation's open spaces and recreational lands. It is the time of Teddy Roosevelt's Presidency, the establishment of many of our great national parks and the environmental movement so capably espoused by the impassioned photography of Walter Muir. Mount Auburn Cemetery and Frederick Law Olmsted's Emerald Necklace are still in their infancy.

Throughout its history, members of CBC have been outspoken advocates for not only the Charles River and its continued vitality as a recreational resource, but for rowing organizations at home and around the world.