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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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The Return Of The Forgotten Four
The women of Isleworth Rowing Club get a ride during high water sometime in 1931. 24 September 2026By Tim Koch Tim Koch is back at Isleworth. Sometimes the mixed blessing that is the Internet combines...
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The Rowing Wizard
Adam’s Eight in front of the Ratzeburg Rowing Club, where the legendary coach worked and where the film was also shot. 22 September 2026 By Wolfgang Chr. Goede(Images © Courtesy Majestic / Goede)...
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Attending the Rite
21 September 2026 By Philip Kuepper Rowing was almosta religion with him,a religion of body and mind.Preparation was a prayer,laying the shell on the water,folding the oars, like arms,the blades, like...
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Fear and Loathing over Olympic Rowing
Early morning rowing on the 2032 Olympic rowing course at Rockhampton. Photo: Rockhampton Regional Council. 20 September 2026By William O’Chee If only Queensland’s crocodiles attacked rowers on a...
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New Book: Masters Rowing for the Modern Rower
Masters Rowing for the Modern Rower: A Holistic and Practical Guide to Masters Rowing by José Manuel González Aramendi. 18 September 2026By Göran R Buckhorn Manu G. Aramendi’s Masters Rowing for the...
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Photo Essay 8 – American Regatta and Club Ribbons
1871 State of Georgia Regatta Association – Member 15 September 2026 By Bill Miller Very popular in the 19th and into the 20th Century, regatta and club ribbons were printed to wear or display. Some...
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Forever in Memory
13 September 2026 By Philip Kuepper Winds whipped uptroughs of waves,then died,and lay the water flat.It became a rower’s river.And rowers slid out onto it.I watched their bodiesflex, relax, flex,...
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Kelly Returns To Leander
FS Kelly of Leander: three‑time Diamond Sculls winner, acclaimed pianist and composer, close friend of Rupert Brooke, decorated for bravery at Gallipoli, killed aged 35 leading his men at the Somme....
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Rowing on the Thames in the 1950s and 1960s
An uncharacteristically quiet Putney Embankment. Some detective work dates this picture as taken between 1957 and 1968. London Rowing Club on the far left still has the balcony that was taken down in...
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