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Rehoming History
After 27 years, Henley’s River and Rowing Museum (RRM) closed permanently on 21 September 2025. 19 October 2026 By Tim Koch Tim Koch finds history in store. I usually look forward to visiting...
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In Composition
18 October 2026 By Philip Kuepper Music is madewhen blades and water meet,music for a rower to play,a boat to sing.What kind of music dependson the mood the water is in.A smooth mood means easing...
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The Known Oars of Rowers
17 October 2026 By Philip Kuepper An immense black satin oceanspreads wide, outward, from where I stand.On it chips of moonlight sparklewhen tips of waves cut the light.The only sound is the slight...
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Grandstanding
A contemporary picture from the American Harper’s Magazine showing the scene at Barnes Bridge during the so-called Great International University Boat Race of 27 August 1869 between coxed fours from...
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Bridging the Iron Curtain
“To Gennadii, who is part of the rowing story — Chris Dodd.” 15 October 2026 By Gennadii Ochkalenko Rowing coach and historian Gennadii Ochkalenko writes from Ukraine how Chris Dodd opened the world...
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2026 Düsseldorf Marathon on the Rhine
“Lang. Hart. Legendär” – Last year, some Swedish masters rowers found themselves being the poster boat for the race. Thomas Barge in the bow. Photo: Düsseldorfer Rheinmarathon 14 October 2026 The 55th...
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A Home For The Homeless, Part II
Tom Green’s Boathouse, pictured here in the 1920s, stood from 1876 until 1978. Part of Barnes Bridge is just visible on the right as viewed here and the future site of the Chiswick Boathouse...
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A Home For The Homeless, Part I
An image from the Middlesex bank of the River Thames just upstream of Barnes Bridge, half-a-mile from the Boat Race finish. On the left is Chiswick Boathouse which was home to Thames Tradesmen’s RC...
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Rowing Stuck
11 October 2026 By Philip Kuepper I find the bay unbecoming this morning,not because it isn’tits usual beautiful,but because it isn’t becoming.It is becalmed.It is still as glue.And two seagulls float...
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Melbourne University BC Annual Dinner and Rowing Victoria 150th Celebration
8 October 2026 On 18 September, Melbourne University Boat Club, which was established in 1859, held the club’s Annual Dinner. The following night, it was time for the 150th Rowing Victoria Hall of...
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October Oars
“as far as the highway bridge, / where he turned east, away, / from my northerly direction.” Photo: Göran R Buckhorn 7 October 2026 By Philip Kuepper (for Michael Meyer) On my drive home from the...
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A Special Rowing Training Machine
Karl Peyer 6 October 2026By Alex Peyer The article writer is researching the history of an unusual rowing training device that his father, Karl Peyer, installed in the 1950s at some rowing clubs in...
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Mystic River Boathouse Park Revisited
5 October 2026 By Angela Wunderli(text and photos) It was a warm and lovely day and generations of rowing greatness – a noticeable amount of exceptionally tall people – gathered at the Mystic River...
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Iconic Folk Hearts
Dolly Parton. 1946-2026. Photo: RCA Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 4 October 2026 By Philip Kuepper Dolly Parton was the WaltWhitman of Popmusic, an all embracinggem of a...
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Out Cruising
4 October 2026 By Philip Kuepper Pale azure isles flow past me.On second thought,I flow past pale azure isles.No, wait. I must rethink this.It is I who am the observer,I, in the passive.It is the...
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The 2027 Boat Race: Going For Silver
On the left, Oxford’s CS Joris (with headband) shakes hands with CD England of Newnham College, Cambridge, prior to the first Oxford Cambridge Women’s Boat race in 1927. On the right, Cambridge...
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Philadelphia’s Boathouse Row Launches Virtual Museum
1 October 2026Good news comes from Philadelphia. In a press release The Head of the Schuylkill Regatta (HOSR) in Philiadelphia shares the news that The Rowing History Project (RHP), a digital rowing...
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Putney Three Pipe Problems*
Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes in a 1987 Granada TV adaptation of The Sign of Four. The climax is a high-speed steam launch pursuit along the Thames. 29 September 2026By Tim Koch Tim Koch fills his...
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Dreams Do Come True: The Jim Dietz Rowing Center and the Hart Perry Boathouse
Guests on the porch of the Hart Perry Boathouse. Photo: Ingrid Buckhorn 28 September 2026 Ingrid Buckhorn, reportingGöran R Buckhorn, editing A ribbon-cutting ceremony officially opened the Jim Dietz...
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Shadow at the Oars
27 September 2026 By Philip Kuepper Because of the angleof the overbright sun,it threw rower and shellinto full shadow,so that all I sawwere two black forms, connected,moving through the...
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