The competitive focus each year is to maintain and improve the Club's positions in May, and Lent, Bumps.

Wider aims are to increase participation in rowing, to allow members to challenge themselves, test their physical and mental limits, to learn how to develop and improve a team, rowing as crew to the maximum of the collective potential, harnessing those gold-dust experiences of synergy, and above all to have fun and build friendships whilst doing so.

Throughout this period of sustained success many Homerton College Boat Club women won University colours in rowing for CUWBC, under the guidance of veteran GB coaches Roger Silk and Ron Needs.

The Men's crew was truly established in 1992 and started working their way through the lower divisions of both Lent and May bumps.

As mentioned below, rising 13 places in a single set of bumps racing in 2001 remains an Oxbridge record.

Their second race of the day ended by bumping on Plough Reach in front of the most crowded section of the course, finally bursting through into Division 2 and away from the sandwich boat position for the first time.

Despite the increased level of competition, now racing against mainly other 1st VIIIs, guided by the long-term planning and expert coaching of Sergej Using (also captain of Cambridge 99's Boat Club, Henley Masters medal-winner and ex-pro basketball player) the Men's 1st VIII progressed smoothly through Division 2 over the following few years, winning blades again in 2008 and 2010, and narrowly missing out in 2011 (only going up 3 places).

After consistently building the Women's 1st VIII and squad from the end of the 2000s, and a number of hard-fought but unsuccessful battles on the water, W1 results took a significant upswing after the establishment of long term coach Mike Edey and his process-driven approach.

The early 2020s have also seen great success from the lower boats, with M2 earning especially convincing blades in 2023, bumping within 400m each day, and W3 going +9 in 2024, the highest ever climb for a HCBC women's crew.

After a boat naming ceremony in April 2007, with speeches from both Phil Stephenson and then-president Adam Marsh, Stevie Stephenson was given its maiden paddle in a 'Captain's Row', crewed by multiple past Women's and Men's Captains, alongside 2 other boats crewed by both past and present HCBC members.

Crews: Notes: The Lady Hilary is for many on the men's side of the Club, the quintessential HCBC boat.

A burly and far from lightweight shell, Hilary was surprisingly responsive in handling the various twists and turns of The Cam at speed, and was used in countless bumps, rising the best part of 4 whole divisions in the space of 8 years.

As mentioned above, rising 13 places in a single set of bumps racing in 2001 remains an Oxbridge record.