It is primarily based at Emmanuel Boat Club, Cutter Ferry Lane, Cambridge.

Borrowing from the college's coat of arms, the club rows with blades coloured blue, which may represent the River Cam, with a black triangle to indicate the dark fenland soil of Cambridgeshire.

[2] In 2003 there was an official merger with the boat club of Hughes Hall, another constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

After the merger of the two clubs, Hughes Hall and Lucy Cavendish enjoyed significant advances marked by three squads winning blades during the May Bumps 2009, including a ten-place gain by one crew.

Lucy Cavendish College began accepting male students in October 2021, and the boat club founded its first ever men's crew that same year.