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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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The Americans at Henley: Marking 250 Years of Independence
The crew from the Shoe-wae-cae-mette Boat Club of Monroe County, Michigan, entered The Stewards’ Challenge Cup in 1878. They were met with criticism from the newspapers at home for their rough looks...
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Canadian Olympic Champion Archie MacKinnon Dies
The 1956 Canadian Olympic champions in the coxless four: Archibald MacKinnon (b), Lorne Loomer (2), Walter d’Hondt (3) and Donald Arnold (s). Photo: Rowing Canada Aviron (RCA) 9 September 2026By Göran...
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World Rowing Congress Sets Course for the Future
Photo: World Rowing 8 September 2026 After the 2026 World Rowing Championships at the Bosbaan in Amsterdam, the World Rowing community gathered for the 2026 World Rowing Ordinary Congress. Here are...
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The History of Rowing
6 September 2026 By Philip Kuepper Each time the bladeof an oar touches water,it writes the next wordon the book of rowing.In rowing, water is the dictionarywhere the words are to be foundto get the...
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The 312th Doggett’s Part II: From Start To Finish
Flashback to the start of the 1960 Doggett’s as witnessed by some well dressed spectators. While the race appears the same, small details show how things have changed over sixty-six years. In 1960,...
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The 312th Doggett’s Part I: Warming Up
The 312th Doggett’s Coat and Badge Wager was won on 2 September by Callum Howard (21) who covered the 7.3km in 28m 29s. Jack Finelli (28) was second with 29m 34s and Charlie Milward (28) was third....
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Graeme King: How to Build an Eight
Boatbuilder Graeme King at Harvard’s Red Top during the 2014 Harvard – Yale Boat Race. 3 September 2026By Graeme King Boat maker Graeme King on how to design and build eight-oared shells. In 1961 I...
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Tom Weil Exhibit Revisited
2 September 2026By Göran R Buckhorn As I reported on 24 August, the Rowing History Symposium and Exhibit Opening of Thomas E. Weil Jr. Rowing History Collection at Marist University Archives and...
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2026 World Rowing Championships – Results
The Netherlands won the gold in the Men’s Eight. The host nation took four gold medals, three silver medals and three bronze medals and ended up on top of the Medal Table. Photo: World Rowing 1...
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Doggett’s: Living History
Harry Phelps won Doggett’s in 1919 but here, starting the 1949 race, he is in the coat and badge of the Bargemaster of the Fishmongers’ Company, a position he held between 1927 and 1972. 31 August...
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Reading the World in the Wild
30 August 2026 By Philip Kuepper I found it difficult to tellwhether the gullswere fighting, or having fun,the way they were squawking,and ascending and descendinglike objects being juggledby...
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King Harald Dies
Haakon with his father Harald, who passed away yesterday. 29 August 2026 By Göran R Buckhorn The King is dead, long live the King. Yesterday, 28 August, Norway’s King Harald V died at the age of 89....
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Thames Water: Polishing Turds?*
The cover of This Week magazine from 6 April 2024. 25 August 2026 By Tim Koch Tim Koch on a moral dilemma. Sometimes an apparently “good news story” is not necessarily what it first appears to be. In...
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Gliding Forward: The Thomas E. Weil Jr. Rowing History Collection
Tom Weil donated his collection of rowing memorabilia to Marist University. In spite of fighting cancer, Tom worked to the very end to organise his 10,000 item-collection to ship it off to Marist. He...
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