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Memories of Fifteen Magic Months
Richard Norton (bow) and Hugh Scurfield (stroke) of Hertford College, Oxford Boat Club, winners of the Silver Goblets and Nickalls’ Challenge Cup for coxless pairs at the 1959 Henley Royal Regatta. Tim...
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High School Rowing in New Zealand, and elsewhere…
Any ‘oarsmen’ among this group of Christchurch schoolboys? Just the other day, HTBS received an e-mail from one of our friends “Down Under”, Michael Grace, author of the brilliant book The Dolly Varden...
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Fordham University Rowing Centennial Rekindles Legacy of an Olympic Champion
The Victorian era Fordham boathouse, which succumbed to fire in 1978. James Sciales, who was the president of the Fordham University Crew in the late 1980s and is now a director of the Empire State...
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Good Medal-Spread at the 2015 World Rowing Championships
U.S. Women took their tenth consecutive World and Olympic title at the World Championships in Aiguebelette, France. Photo: FISA. FISA, Worldrowing.com, writes in a press release from the 2015 World...
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The Report That My Dog Ate: The 2015 Cambridge May Bumps, Part 1
The Goldie Boathouse, the spiritual home of Cambridge University Boat Club (CUBC). Strictly speaking, it has no connection with the bumps, the peculiar form of boat racing in which a number of boats...
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The 2015 World Rowing Masters Regatta – Results
The 2015 World Rowing Masters Regatta, held at the Blosso regata course in Hazewinkel, Belgium, ended yesterday. Worldrowing.com (FISA) reports that the regatta appears to have been a great success...
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A Farce on his Face
Rowing writer Christopher Dodd, who is the rowing historian at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, has just published a new book, Unto the Tideway Born. The book covers 500 years of the...
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The Mystery with the Sid Radley-built “J. Hopper”
Roger Bean hard at work repairing the J. Hopper in June 2014. Clive Radley writes: In late 2012, Roger Bean, purchased the J. Hopper, a dilapidated single clinker scull in poor condition, from Hexham...
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The Report That My Dog Ate: The 2015 Cambridge May Bumps, Part 2
‘How is Clare doing?’ An alumnus of Clare College Boat Club checks a bumps chart hung along the towpath on the final day of the 2015 ‘Mays’, Saturday 13 June. Tim Koch writes: As the first part of my...
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The 2015 Coastweeks Regatta: A Windy Affair in Pictures
This year’s Coastweeks Regatta at Mystic Seaport was a windy affair. Göran R Buckhorn writes: The Coastweeks Regatta starts the so-called ‘Head season’ here in New England. This year’s Coastweeks,...
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Rowing History
Watermen were abundant and in demand when Old London Bridge spanned the Thames, double-oared and four-oared taximen who sculled passengers from the City to Soutwark, Southwark to the City, to...
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On Jock Wise
Jock Wise, of London RC, winner of the 1913 Wingfield Sculls. Photo from Chris Dodd’s book Water Boiling Aft. Göran R Buckhorn writes: HTBS received an e-mail from Laura B. in Northampton. She is...
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“1895: ‘The Hall, the Hall, I Bawl the Hall’”
In June, Göran R Buckhorn, editor of ‘Hear The Boat Sing’ (HTBS), published A Yank at Cambridge – B.H. Howell: The Forgotten Champion. The book covers the rowing years of Benjamin Hunting Howell, of...
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‘”A Yank at Cambridge” is superb’
Benjamin Hunting Howell in bed after his rowing accident in the autumn of 1897 when he crashed into another sculler on the narrow Cam. As HTBS wrote yesterday, in June, HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn...
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Rowing to Runnymede: The River Relay for the Magna Carta 800th
In this romanticised Victorian illustration, King John is told off for attempting to sign Magna Carta with a pen when every schoolchild knows that he should have affixed his wax seal to it. John is one...
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I, For One, Love Roman Numerals
Arum Numisma – Poster for the 1960 Olympic Games held in Rome. Greg Denieffe writes: Several reasons are given for the use of roman numerals in numbering the modern Olympics Games, including tradition,...
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You Forgot, Didn’t You?
The Rowing Gallery in Henley’s River and Rowing Museum (RRM) – preserving part of Britain’s Sporting Heritage. Tim Koch has spent a day in Henley: Wednesday, 30 September was ‘National Sporting...
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National Poetry Day: A Sea To Row By
The reeds grow lovely in the November dusk. They whisper, whisper the last of the day, a rushing whisper along the beach, hurrying, hurrying the terns to flight. The rower stands watching the...
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Making History at the River & Rowing Museum
River & Rowing Museum exterior. © Jaap Oepkes/The River & Rowing Museum. Greg Denieffe writes: Oscar Wilde once said “Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.” However, it takes...
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Mad Men And Oarsmen
At the 2011 Henley Royal Regatta, HTBS Editor Göran Buckhorn (left) and contributors Tim Koch (centre) and Chris Dodd (right) discuss ‘all aspects of the rich history of rowing, as a sport, culture...
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