Cambridge Boat Club

Cool place to visit! Perfect for family/friend outting.

Heart of the hotc regattaHeart of BostonBoston My AnimaA city of quantum energy, entangled withSpirits & materials, ghosts & humans, poverty & wealthDark & light, yin & yang, blessing & curseBusting and harmonizing all at once…A city that demands me to prepay $2000 for three nightsA small room with no breakfast, cleaning or refundJust because you can, yet your people take me intoTheir home, sheltering me with their generous souls.The Charles runs through your heart, a small riverBursting with your best oarsmen and womenYour shores swollen with Ivy Leagues left & rightYour men ran Harvard and Yale as presidentsWhile hunting witches as life obsessions.You mesmerize me, Boston, for your quantum swingsBetween most brilliant intellectuals & darkest ignoranceYour biggest crowds for marathons and regattasWith loudest music, delicious food and expensive merchandiseShadowed by bombs and crimes.I love your map crowded with ghosts tricking and trippingtourists in hotels, dorms, riverways, keeping us awakewith their unfinished business. You have the best food like SpringShabushabu, and pizza that demands $10 for a slice.Yet on your Mount Auburn, you offer us the most beautifulCemetery on earth, free of charge, with living fossils likeDawn Redwood, Gingko, Amur Chokeberries, Golden Larch…Draping over Robert Creeley, Amy Lowell, Longfellow and Mary Baker EddyWith equal care and grace, whether it’s a flat tombstone orMausoleum. Is this what you’re trying to tell us:In the end, it’s our inner cadence and yearning for beautyThat heals and keeps life going through our poetry and story?I’m finding my way in your maze, BostonThrough your ports, bridges and people:Your bitter & sweetnessYour greed & generosityYour hate & loveYour shadow & lightYour sorrow & joyYour flesh & soulYour animus & animaAll the particles and waves that make you the most enchanting city of America.

Private rowing club on the Charles. Available for events. Nice view of the river from the verandah. Not much parking.

Private rowing club that also is headquarters for the wonderful Head of the Charles Regatta.

Great people, great boats, great location. If I lived in Boston this would be my club.

We had a bar mitzvah dinner here and it was special night.The club sits on the water and the views out the back are spectacular. There is a bit of traffic noise as the front of it has quite a few intersecting roads with lots of traffic.The dinner was catered and the meal was vegan but it turned out to be very good.There was a large room for tables and another large room for dancing. The back deck was very nice and the weather was absolutely fantastic. All in all, a pretty nice spot for a gathering.The special people that attended this event certainly helped to make it extra special.

Great experience, staff was helpful and polite!

They host an awesome regatta each year: the Head of the Charles and it is always well planned and executed.

Great rowing club with superlative social life and community spirit.

Great group of Rowers of all ages and skills as well as great parties.