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Fund for Working with Young People
One of the rowing programmes which has received grants from the Gemini Boat Race Bursary Scheme is Fulham Reach Boat Club for its Learn To Row programme. 16 June 2021 Principal Partner Gemini and The...
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Record Numbers Go to the Olympic Rowing
The Sea Forest Waterway. Graphic: Tokyo Metropolitan Government 17 June 2021 World Rowing announced the other day that a record number of nations have qualified to go to the Olympic rowing in Tokyo,...
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Big Ben Strikes Again: Spock in His Own Words
Ben Spock (right) and Al Lindley (left), a Yale crew mate and friend from Andover, pictured at Yale’s Gales Ferry boathouse in 1925. 18 June 2021 By Tim Koch Since posting my recent piece on Dr...
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USRowing’s Tokyo Bound PR3 Mixed Four with Cox
The PR3 mixed four with coxswain crew to represent U.S. in the Paralympic Games in Tokyo in August is the silver medallists from the 2019 World Rowing Championships. Photo: USRowing.org 19 June 2021...
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Sky Sports News Celebrating Juneteenth
The U.S. 1968 Olympic eight that supported Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the 200-metre medallists, and the OPHR. From the bow: David Higgins, Cleve Livingston, Steve Brooks, Franklin Hobbs, Scott...
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The Rowing Life
21 June 2021 By Philip Kuepper I row the shell of my bodyalong the stream of time.I have been doing sosince my mother gave birth.It is a dry stream, time,my oars equipped with bladesto navigate air...
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The Gold Cup & HOCR Grant Program
22 June 2021 Yesterday, The Gold Cup and the Head Of The Charles announced a grant program to support “under-resourced communities”. The organizations write: Program ObjectiveThe Head Of The Charles...
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OG 1960: When Men Rowed Wood
The German winners of the 1960 Olympic eights, Ratzeburger Ruderclub, with their coach, Karl Adam (in a white cap in the middle). 23 June 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn Exactly a month from today, the 2020...
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D-Day, 25 June
The winner of the Doggetts Coat and Badge Wager receives a tailor-made scarlet costume modelled on the outfit of an 18th-century waterman – complete with a large and elaborate arm badge of solid...
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Glad Midsommar!
25 June 2021 Today, Midsommar, Midsummer, is celebrated in Sweden. And, no, there is no rowing involved… However, there is a lot of strange things going on (well, if you are not a Swede, that is)....
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GB The Big Row
Photo: British Rowing website. 26 June 2021 It’s time for The Big Row, a GB new annual fundraiser, British Rowing writes on their website. The Big Row is the new annual fundraiser for Love Rowing,...
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The 306th Doggett’s: Worth the Wait
James Berry crosses the finish line, winning the 2020 Doggett’s Coat and Badge Wager. The pandemic-delayed race finally took place on 25 June 2021. First held in 1715, Doggett’s is a sculling race for...
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Written Motion
28 June 2021 By Philip Kuepper The waves rose in slow shrugs,like the shoulders of powerfully built menlifting loads. They shrugged, thusly,over and over, like doing reps in a gym.This was a sea...
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The Rivers Come Alive
Photo: British Rowing website 29 june 2021 By Leo Gibson So all you Ducks and Drakes and Swans,‘Tis time you swam away.The boys and girls are back in town,And boats now have the right of way.The Covid...
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2021 World Rowing Sustainability Award
The 2019 World Rowing Sustainability Award went to the Spring Creek Regeneration Project – Kinross Wolaroi School in Australia. No award was handed out in 2020 due to the pandemic. 30 June 2021The...
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World Rowing Under 23 Championships
Last time the World Rowing Under 23 Championships were held was in Sarasota, Florida, in 2019. 1 July 2021On 7-11 July, it’s time for the World Rowing Under 23 Championships, World Rowing writes on...
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USRowing Team to Under 23 Championships
2 July 2021 USRowing has announced the 68-person roster of the 2021 Under 23 National Team that will compete at the 2021 World Rowing Under 23 Championships on 7-11 July in Racice, Czech...
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2021 Henley Women’s Regatta
At the 2016 Henley Women’s Regatta, Tideway Scullers won the Club Eights. Photo: Tim Koch. 3 July 2021Today, it’s the second day of the three-day Henley Women’s Regatta in Henley-on-Thames. Last...
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90 Years Ago, a HRR Triple-Win for Jumbo Edwards
1931 Henley Royal Regatta: Jumbo Edwards receiving the Silver Goblets from the Duchess of York. Jumbo’s partner in the coxless pairs, Lewis Clive, is standing behind him. A year later, they won the...
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