Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club (CULRC) was the University rowing club for lightweight male oarsmen at the University of Cambridge, principally to race against Oxford University Lightweight Rowing Club (OULRC) annually in the Lightweight Men's Boat Race.

In April 2020 it was agreed that CULRC would combine with the openweight men's club CUBC and the women's club CUWBC into one club. The merger took place on 1 August 2020. CUBC now selects a lightweight men's Blue Boat from the men's squad to represent Cambridge at the Lightweight Boat Races.

History The club was founded in 1974 by Richard Bates and raced against Oxford in 1975. These races were the basis on which the Henley Boat Races were later founded. For more than twenty five years Robert Greatorex presided over the club. In recent years, the club fielded two crews each year, the lightweight Blue Boat and Granta, the lightweight reserve crew. The reserve boat, Granta, raced Oxford's equivalent, Nephthys, from 2000 until 2007 and restarted racing Oxford in a pairs race in recent years.

For a brief period in 1999 - 2002 there was an active old boys club "Farmer" whose finest race was beating the 1999 Nephthys crew by 2L.

The Blue Boat crew have the right to wear a distinctive uniform. As a half blue sport, they wear a unique Cambridge blue and white striped blazer with the club insignia on the chest pocket. This blazer design has been retained by the Blue Boat upon merger with CUBC. Blue Boat oarsmen who go on to win a round of the Temple Challenge Cup or Prince Albert Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in the same season as their Boat Race are awarded Discretionary Full Blues and are entitled to wear a Cambridge blue blazer with the club insignia on the chest pocket. Granta members who race in the Reserve race against Nepthys are entitled to wear the Granta Colours blazer, the same design as the Blue Boat but without the club insignia on the chest pocket.

Past Crews This is a list of CULRC/CUBC crews who have raced the men's lightweight boat race against Oxford Archive of old web site giving crews prior to 2003 Crew lists, time and distance for 1978 and 1979 crews taken from decorated blades and race programmes Date Result Winning time Winning margin (lengths) Crew (rowers are listed left to right in boat position from bow to stroke, followed by the cox) 1975 Won R. Bates, T, Rossiter, N. Burnet, D. Reddaway, D. Dumbell, R. Greatorex, J. Barter, M. Archer, A Elgood 1976 Lost P. Summers, P. Watson, M. Rockel, I. Pritchard, F. Suess, R. Greatorex, J. Watson, J. Hare, A. Narula 1977 Lost I. Pritchard, W. Bradbury, J. Hutton, D. Jennings, P. Summers, J. Hare, F. Suess, P. Watson, J. Till 1978 Won 5:48 P. Ainsworth, B. Booth, N. Thomas, S. Phillips, A. Parks, P. Munro-Faure, P. Watson, A. Hay, P. Smith 1979 Won 5.39 J. Chauncy, S. Trowell, A. Dunlop, B. Booth, J. Ambrose, D. Jennings, C. Hyatt, S. Worth, A. Bustany 1980 Won 2 Steve Jones, Steve Brown, Simon Bowden, Ian Nissenbaum, Neil Smilth, Dale Jennings, Tony Williams, Rob Robinson, Alan Bustany 1981 Won Canvas Rob Howlett, Rory Seaton, Simon Bowden, Steve Brown, Simon Cole, Charlie Winslade, Steve Jones, Chris Harris, Joe Sell 1982 Won Jeremy Arnold, Ian Brown, James Cox, Chris Harris, Ewen Wigley, Ric Paige, Dave Pocock, Steve Jones, Julien Hartley 1983 Won 6:53 3 Adrian Manning, John Stephenson, Ed Piggott, Richard Millett, David McGinnis, Tim Lucas, Steve Jones, Guy Eastaugh, Henry Dunlop 1984 Won Jeremy H.Boardman, Tim Raffle, Nicholas E.S.Bugg, Martin White, Stephen Kirkpatrick, Stephen Williams, John Stebbing, Neil S.P..Blundell, Henry W. Dunlop. 1985 Won 6 ft Piers Copham, Andrew Hobart, Bruce Braithwaite, David Wright, Andrew Kelly, Martin White, Roberto Townshend, Paul Sansome, Andrew Holmes 1986 Won 2 Mark Binns, Ian Cammack, Andrew Hobart, Jerry Dawes, Henry Elkington, Julian Hanson, Rod Peters, Chris Jacob, John Benford 1987 Won 6:09 Charlie Rowley, John Wilson, Mark Ingham, David Calder, Richard Morgan, James Irvine, Jeremy Dawes, Rod Hiorns, Keven Mentzel 1988 Won 5:50 B. Potterill, A.C King, A.D Oberreit, R.P.D Foster, P.J Gordon, R.E Hiorns, A.G Hobart, J.P.H Entwisle, Miss J.A Horne 1989 Won 5:51 P.H Gillespie, C.I Pritchard, A.J Rowell, D.R.P Vye, C.J Meyrick, M Cross, B.R Potterill, R.P.D Foster, N Harris 1990 Won 6:40 P.H Gillespie, A.J Bird, D.J Lipson, A.R Wiliams, D.M.P Height, A.G Goyder, T.W Owen, C.I. Pritchard, K.V Haslett 1991 Won 6:39 P Woodburn, R Rayward, J Milne, M Dickinson, R Williams, R Quickfall, S Johns, M Tovell, R Reeve 1992 Lost 5:40 D.H.B Burgess, A.R Kennedy, P.J Woodburn, R.P Tett, N.L.G Hopley, J.S Riley, A.H.R Stewart, M Tovell, F Pritchard 1993 Won 5:39 S.A.S Walker, C.K Vincent, S.C.R Donne, S Jose, A.J Kuropatwa, C Harris, D.H.R Burgess, M.J Webb, S.Patel 1994 Lost 5:35 Andy Jones, George Gilbert, Hari Jayram, Tim Rollingsonn, Zac Peake, Matt Webb, Sim Fuller, Oliver Kuropatwa, Ian Cragg-Hine 1995 Won 5:29 Mike Lea*, Dan Oldfield, J. Smallwood, Matt Rayham, M.R Clarke, Rod Chisholm, Matt Webb, Wayne Baker, Laura Marx 1996 Lost NRO disq Charlie Tavener, Tom Killick, Tom Middleton, Mike "Buck" Rogers, Hari Jayaram*, Edwin Truesdale, Jamie Sporle, Bruce Perry, Jason Yeung 1997 Lost 5:49 1 Jon Key, Tom Killick*, Dave Lowish, Martin Hoather, Trond Bustnes, Justin Slater, Dan Darley, Bruce Perry, Zack Taylor 1998 Won 5:45 David Tait, Marten Brelen, Bruce Perry*, Alex O'Reilly, Nick de Pennington, Martin Hoather, Tom Latter, Tom Killick, Laura Watkins 1999 Lost 5:31 James Porter, David Tait, Dave Lowish, Mike Rogers, Nick de Pennington, Matt Arnold, Tom Latter*, Matt Newland, Brad Parr 2000 Won 5:40 2 Chris Wright, Alex Aiken, Pete Forester, Luke Lewis, Garan Jenkin, Jamie Bottomley, Nick English, Jon Hickey, Alice Johnson-Marshall 2001 Won 6:33 4 Alex Brooks, Chris Morgan, Andy Adams, Alex Knott, Nick English, Jamie Bottomley, Charlie Bourne, Alex Higham, Eleanor Griggs 2002 Lost 5:21 2 Rob Ennals, Oli Watkins, Simon Case, Alex Higham, Lawrence Taylor, Ian Craig, Charles Bourne, Jamie Bottomley, Vanessa Murrie 2003 Lost 5:55 Alex Summers, Joe Grundy, Jeremy Boote, Charlie Reid, Alex Hamilton, Doug Perrin, Lawrence Taylor, Owen Richards, Holly Rogers 2004 Lost 5:36 Doug Perrin, Alex Summers, Andy Hudson, Geoff Ball, Simon Kerr, Nick Armitage, Geoff Roberts, Tom Dyson, Rebecca Dowbiggin 2005 Lost 5:51 3 Colin Prue, Alex Summers, Simon Evans, John Winny, Tim Perera, John Prendergast, George Wallis, Tom Dyson, Dyfan Howells April 1, 2006 Lost 5:18 Rafael Mora, Ed Pain, Emmanuel Moll, Jon Winny, John Davies, Will Buttinger, Ian Sealey, Callum Stewart April 1, 2007 Lost 3:44 1 Christopher Kerr, Sam Thompson, Ian Sealey, James Fulcher, George Blessley, Jon Stockton, Charlie Pitt-Ford, Will Calvert, Dave White March 23, 2008 Lost 6:15 John Kyffin, James Fulcher, Ben Thomas, Peter Herrick, Alex Markham, George Blessley*, Mark Aldred, Christopher Kerr, Ted Randolph March 22, 2009 Won 5:49 3 Christopher Kerr, John Kiely, Alistair Chappelle, Mark Aldred, George Blessley*, John Hale, Iain Rist, Donald Evans, Elizabeth Box March 28, 2010 Won 5:28 2 ft Christopher Kerr, Matt Lawes, Christopher Bellamy, Iain Rist, Charlie Pitt-Ford, Tom Coker, Alistair Chappelle*, John Hale, Ruth Coverdale March 27, 2011 Lost 5:54 Canvas Sam Blackwell, Charlie Adams, Rupert Price, Sam Hayes, Christopher Bellamy*, John Hale, Piran Tedbury, Olli Lupton, Katie Phillips March 25, 2012 Won 6:00 James Wedlake, Martin Kubie, Simon Morris, Matthew White, Charlie Pitt-Ford, Piran Tedbury, Rupert Price, Nicolas Kernick, Michael Hook March 24, 2013 Lost 6:49 William Handy, Christopher Kerr, Nikodem Szumilo, Nicolas Kernick, Andrzej Hunt, James Wedlake, Simon Morris, William Kenyon, Jonathon Dean March 30, 2014 Won 5:30 Greg Street, Emanuel Malek, James Green, Andrei Lebed, Nikodem Szumilo, William Hayes, Giovanni Bergamo Andreis, Andrzej Hunt, Callum Mantell April 5, 2015 Won 5:55 4 ft Tim Rademacher, Thomas Wileman, Moritz Matthey, Lawrence Clare, Charlie Cullen, Archie Wood, Raffaele Nicholas Russo, Tom Chess, Alistair Nelson March 19, 2016 Won 6:19 Easily Ben Mackworth, Thomas Wileman, Jamie Brown, Sam Philpott, Theo Clark, Charlie Cummins, Charlie Cullen, Giovanni Bergamo Andreis, Sneha Naik March 26, 2017 Won 6:07 Chris Jones, Robbie Sewell, Zenas van Veldhoven, Charlie Cummins, Ben Mackworth, Sam Philpott, Jamie Brown*, Giovanni Bergamo Andreis, Dom Hall March 19, 2018 Won 6:26 Calum McRae, Julian Sproßmann, Zenas van Veldhoven*, Neil Paul, Theo Weinberger, Felix Koninx, Ben Mackworth, Sam Philpott, Juliet Armstrong March 23, 2019 Lost 17:44 Peter Taylor, Teague Smith, Freddie Markanday, Sam Armstrong, Daumantas Kavolis, Tom Roe*, Jonathan Vibhishanan, Michael Diggin, Jack Mason March 15, 2020 Lost 18:50 Luke Andrews, Matthew Edge, James Crossley, Eytan Cortissos, Daumantas Kavolis, James Lee, Ben Wood, Teague Smith*, Jamie BaileyMay 23, 2021 Lost 14:19 Cameron Mackenzie, Fred Gillard, Sam Kitto, Eytan Cortissos*, Freddie Scott, Rob Peacock, Calum McRae, Matthew Edge, Holly BeveridgeMarch 20, 2022 Won 18:01 5 Harry Fieldhouse, Zuhri James, Freddie Markanday, Orlando Morley, Ed Townsend, Cameron Mackenzie, Ben Wood, Matthew Edge*, Felix Craig-McFeelyMarch 20, 2023 Won 18:17 11 Thomas Heppel, Sam Taylor, Sam Clarke, Joe Holey, Gianluca Vartan, Harry Fieldhouse*, Ben Jones, Lewis Gray, Tteja SenthilnathanMarch 29, 2024 Won 20:15 5.5 Emile Czernuszka, Sam Taylor, Gianluca Vartan, Harry Fieldhouse, Ben Jones*, Freddie Markanday, Thomas Heppel, Lewis Gray, Ben HardingApril 12, 2025 Won 17:34 4.5 Jeremy Wilkinson, Gianluca Maffi*, Will Morris, Josh Moore, Ben Isherwood, Janik Schüttler, Theo Hatcher, James Richards, Isabella Fiske-HarrisonApril 3, 2026 Won 18:38 7 Victor Viennot-Bourgin, Jeremy Wilkinson, Peter Crossley, Nikita Mohr, Josh Moore*, Frederick Challacombe, James Richards, Archie Smith, Alex Taylor

Denotes President

Reserve crews (Granta) This is a list of CULRC/CUBC Granta crews who have raced the Lightweight Reserve Race against Oxford. Date Result Race Type Winning time Winning margin (lengths) Crew (rowers are listed left to right in boat position from bow to stroke, followed by the cox)2000 Won VIII 5:50 2.75 Alex P Harrison, Matthew Lovett, Peter W.J Rutland, David Howard, George D.R Garforth-Bles, Christopher J Morgan, Charles G.F Bourne, Richard Sutton, Elizabeth C Grose2001 Lost VIII 1.5 T.A.W Jarratt, J.E.H Smith, J.E.N Price, D. Tinkler, C. Sugihara, E. Richardson, R. Muir, A.J Gilmore, C.R Bolton2002 Lost VIII 5:33 2 M.B Suret, J.W Grundy, A.J Barr, A.F Ford, G.J Brook, J.D Wright, T.W Rose, J.P D'Arcy, E. Nesbit 2003 Won VIII 6:19 2.75 Mel Harbour, Tim Steele, Ross Cook, Ed Peacock, Andy Rankin, Ross Williamson, James Wright, Edd Knowles, Ellen Nisbet 2004 Lost VIII 5:45 Canvas G.W Wallis, G. Sills, P.D Allen, J.R Third, P.E Hayball, C.A.F Read, N.R Thornton, T.C Keeling, S.C Daniell2005 Lost VIII 6:07 4.5 E. Moll, A.D Twigg, N.P.J Grafton-Green, J.R.W Hewitt, P.E Hayball, J.C Williams, E. Deadman, E.J Farnell, L. Preece2006 Lost VIII 5:26 5 G. Matmon, C.P.L Meakins, J.C Williams, S. Pancratz, A. Hegarty, D. Reading-Picopoulos, C.J Kerr, G.J.A Hughes, C.H Logan 2016 Won IVx- 2 Barney Plummer, James Green, Haofeng Xu, Brennan Heames 2017 Won VIII 5:38 3.5 Jon Swain, Ed Nash, Sam Pettinger-Harte, James Wood, Jake Rowe, Hugo Ventham, George Hawkswell, Nicholas Rice, Juliet Armstrong 2018 Won IV+ 7:24 1 Jonathan Shoesmith, Nicholas Rice, Hugo Ventham, Thomas Roe, Catriona Bourne Swinton Hunter 2019 Lost 2- Jan Helmich, Matt Webb 2020 Lost 2- Canvas Eryk Sokolowski, Jack Reid 2021 Lost 2- 1 Luke Andrews, Alexander Miscampbell 2022 Won2- 2 Hal Barrow, Gianluca Maffi 2023 Won2- 5 Gianluca Maffi, Jack Saville 2024 Won2- 4 Will Liu, Jack Morley2025 Won2- Easily Alex Tocher, Peter Crossley2026 Won2- 16 William Woodard, James Nash

International representation 2016 Rio — Mark Aldred GBR LM4-