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Hadaway Harry Will Return
Playwright Ed Waugh and Harry Clasper actor Jamie Brown on the balcony of Westminster School Boat Club under the iconic John Hawks Clasper sign, in 2017. John Hawks Clasper was Harry’s son and...
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The Starting Bay
The start bay at Lake Wendouree in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Photo courtesy of John Cumper. 16 March 2022 By John Cumper* There’s a breathless hush in the starting bay-Five crews to beat to win...
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2022 Australian Rowing Championships Will Move
The 2022 Australian Rowing Championships on 28 March – 3 April will be held on Lake Nagambie. 17 March 2022 By Göran R Buckhorn Rowing Australia (RA) has announced that the 2022 Australian Rowing...
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Canadian Olympic Gold Medallist Kevin Neufeld Dies
Canadian Olympic gold medallist Kevin Neufeld passed away on 26 February. Photo: Rowing Canada Aviron 18 March 2022 By Göran R Buckhorn Canadian Olympic champion Kevin Neufeld has passed away, age...
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Ed Waugh’s New Play: “Wor Bella”
The Blyth Spartans Ladies who won the Munitionettes Cup in 1918. The football team’s famous centre forward Bella Reay, “Wor Bella”, is in the middle of the front row. 19 March 2022 By Göran R Buckhorn...
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Oxford Women and Lightweights get Pre-Race Bounty
Oxford University Women’s Boat Club training recently at Wallingford. 19 March 2022By William O’Chee On the eve of their fixtures with Cambridge University, Oxford University’s women’s and...
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My Heart Rocks Boats
20 March 2022 By Philip Kuepper An aqua rim rings the rocks,its delicate hue highlightingthe rock’s hardness, the rock’s facelike the face of a no-nonsense copcome to keep order. That is the...
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Howard Croker: Wooden Oarmaker
Howard Croker with his wife Kaye and son Darren, in March 2019, at a rowing event at Sydney International Regatta Cenre (SIRC) in Penrith. Photo: Louis Petrin. 21 March 2022 By Göran R Buckhorn In...
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Going at the Speed of Light (Blue)
Matt Edge, stroke of the victorious Cambridge boat, demonstrates his pleasure at his crew winning the 2022 Oxford – Cambridge Lightweight Men’s Boat Race by 5 lengths. In last year’s race at Ely, he...
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Donate to Ukrainian Rowers
23 March 2022World Rowing has started a fundraising for Ukrainian rowers and their families. World Rowing invites the international rowing community – rowers, national rowing federations and suppliers...
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No European Rowing Under-19 Championships in Sabaudia
Photo from the 2021 World Rowing Cup III in Sabaudia. Photo: sabaudiarowing.com 24 March 2022 Sabaudia will not be hosting the European Rowing Under-19 Championships in May. World Rowing announced...
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The 2022 Boat Race Fixtures: Reading the Runes
One For The Insta: Junior rowers from Fulham Reach Boat Club capture the action as the Women’s “B” crews of Oxford and Oxford Brookes race each other in one of the many Boat Race Fixtures held over...
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The Race of a Thousand Oarsmen – All With Shiny Shoes
The 1935 Tideway Head of the River Race as reported at the time. 26 March 2022 By Tim Koch Tim Koch on when a race is not a race. When Steve Fairbairn founded the Head of the River Race (HoRR) for...
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Magic Act
27 March 2022 By Philip Kuepper A rowboat is laughter embodied on the water.It is happiness made manifest.It acts as a solid atop liquid.It takes one out to the spot where the fish bite.It sweeps one...
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Going To Steve’s Head
The Mile Post, sited one mile along the river from the start of the Championship Course when going from Putney to Mortlake, commemorates Steve Fairbairn who, among other things, founded the Tideway...
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Rowing Boeing
The rowing Pococks, left to right, top to bottom: George in the 1920s, Dick in 1910, Lucy in 1912 and their father, Aaron (“Fred”), in 1926. 29 March 2022 By Chris Dodd In the fourth of HTBS’s...
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Englishman, Irishman, Jokerman
Some of the so-called PIGS (AKA PIIGS) had to use a boat designed by bankers (did I spell that correctly?) to refinance loans and stabilise the Euro during the European Debt Crisis that peaked in...
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A Tideway Week Album: The Cambridge Women
To misquote Rodgers and Hammerstein, “There’s a bright golden haze on the Tideway”. Do the Cambridge Women also have a wonderful feeling that everything’s going their way? 30 March 2022 By Tim Koch...
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A Tideway Week Album: The Oxford Women
Putney, 7am – it’s rowing time. The Oxford women are based at the Imperial College boathouse, their rivals are housed next door at Thames. 31 March 2022 By Tim Koch Tim Koch turns to the Dark Blue...
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HTBS Interview with Oxford’s Annie Anezakis
Oxford’s Annie Anezakis. Photo: Tim Koch 31 March 2022 HTBS’s reporter Down Under, William O’Chee, got hold of Australian rower Annie Anezakis, who will row at “7” in the Oxford Women’s Blue boat on...
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