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A Tideway Week Album: The Cambridge Men
Old Blues cast a critical eye over the youngsters. The umpire’s launch Amaryllis was built in 1928 by Hobbs of Henley for Cambridge University Boat Club. For the technical, the boat is of carvel...
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Rowing Commentary Training Day
1 April 2022Olympic commentators Robert Treharne Jones and Peter O’Hanlon from www.RowTalk.com have announced the next in their series of rowing commentary training days. It’s going to be held in...
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A Tideway Week Album: The Oxford Men
The Oxford Men’s Blue Boat is shadowed by the OUBC launch, Bosporos. The first Bosporos did sterling work for many years, and this is the second Oxford craft so named, launched in 1994. 2 April 2022...
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Relative Rowing
On the left is Harold Rickett, who rowed for Cambridge in 1930, 1931 and 1932. On the right is his great-grandson, Ollie Wynne-Griffith, who is at “7” for the Light Blues this year. 3 April 2022 By...
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Whispers of Memory
4 April 2022 By Philip Kuepper It was the whisper of thingsthat moved him:the whisper of a breezeon the cheek of the air;the whisper of a leafcaused by that same breezepassing among the branchesof the...
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Breaking News
Spoiler alert, after the Oxford – Cambridge men’s race, commentator Martin Cross concluded: “This Oxford crew is one of the greatest of all time, if not THE greatest.” 4 April 2022 By Tim Koch Tim...
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“No” to the Fulham Pier!
4 April 2022 By Göran R Buckhorn This is an opinion piece by Göran R Buckhorn. The Boat Races are over for this year. It was great to have the races back on the River Thames. We saw four of the best...
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A Boat Race Day Album: Part I – Before
A spectator at Putney. The proudly faded Cambridge Blue scarf identifies him as an Old Blue, someone who has previously raced against Oxford and, win or lose, had made it to the end of the Fulham...
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A Boat Race Day Album: Part II – During
Two flags that hopefully will continue to fly for a long time. 7 April 2022 By Tim Koch The first of Tim Koch’s three-part photo album of Boat Race Day 2022 yesterday covered Putney in the build-up to...
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A Boat Race Day Album: Part III – After
Having already shown that she is no lightweight by stroking the Cambridge women to a record time victory, Olympian Imogen Grant continues to prove that she can mix it with the big girls by drinking...
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The Boat Race Comes Home
Second-placed Cambridge and Goldie oarsmen seek solace in a sponsor’s product prior to departing for the post-race CUBC dinner in Central London. 9 April 2022 By Chris Dodd Chris Dodd enjoys a day...
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In the Spirit of the Moment
10 April 2022 By Philip Kuepper The spirit’s idea of fun,and mine,were proving not to dovetail.It lifted my capoff my head, and, using itlike a frisbee,flung it out to sea.There it laycapping white a...
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Senior Moments: The 2022 Oxford – Cambridge Veterans’ Races (Plural)
Ready for a practice start before the 26th Oxford – Cambridge Men’s Veteran Boat Race, Cambridge’s James Cracknell (left) adopts a posture traditionally associated with veterans, while Matt Parish...
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The Boat Race Day Festival of Rowing and Oxbridge Challenge 2022
Or ‘Not the Boat Race!’ Preparing the fleet at University of London Boathouse. 12 April 2022 By Malcolm R. Knight(who also provided the photographs) On Sunday 3 April 2022, the Boat Race returned to...
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HTBS Film Review: The Novice
Graphic: IFC Films 13 April 2022 By Hugh Matheson Hugh Matheson competed in three Olympic Games, finishing in 6th place in the single sculls in Moscow in 1980. He is impressed by the recent...
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Filippi Becomes the Official Boat Supplier for USRowing
Kristina Wagner (bow) and Gevvie Stone competed in a Filippi boat at the 2020 Olympic Games. Photo: USRowing. 14 April 2022 By Göran R Buckhorn The other day, USRowing announced that the Italian...
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Philip Kuepper: “Poetry wouldn’t leave me alone”
HTBS’s poet Philip Kuepper was interviewed by Mystic & Noank Library’s Christine Bradley for the library’s Local Author Series. From the Mystic & Noank Library YouYube Channel. 15 April 2022...
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New England Song
Mayflower 17 April 2022 On Friday, 15 April, HTBS published an article about our poet, Philip Kuepper. He had been video interviewed by Mystic & Noank Library Director Christine Bradley for the...
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Kings of the Cam
Sam’s The Boat Race. 18 April 2022 By John Drew* A fellow cricketer, hearing that my erstwhile cricketing grandson Sam had become such a rabid convert to rowing he had been elected vice-captain of his...
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