Clik here to view.
John Hawks Clasper, His Father’s Son. Part I: The Professional Oarsman
John “Jack” Hawks Clasper (1836 – 1908) is not as well-known or well-documented as his father, Harry (1812 – 1870), but both were highly successful professional oarsmen and important and innovative...
View ArticleClik here to view.
John Hawks Clasper, His Father’s Son. Part II: The Innovative Boat Builder
John Hawks Clasper pictured in racing kit alongside a modern image of his final boathouse in Putney. Xx April 2022 By Tim Koch In Part I, Tim Koch covered John Hawks Clasper’s career as a professional...
View ArticleClik here to view.
IOC Approves World Rowing Olympic Qualification System for the 2024 Games
For the Olympic rowing on Lake Casitas in 1984, the rowers were living at the University of California’s Santa Barbara campus. On campus was an Olympic Arts Festival rowing exhibition. Gallery...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Memorial Service for Duvall Hecht
Memorial Service for Duvall Hecht Duvall Hecht Photo: ©UC Irvine Rowing 22 April 2022 Yesterday, Row2k wrote that there will be a memorial service for Duvall Hecht tomorrow, Saturday, 23 April. It is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
1852 Harvard Trophy Oars up for Auction
The multi-million dollar oars that are up for auction at Sotheby’s in May. 23 April 2022 By Göran R Buckhorn Two 170-year-old trophy oars from the first Harvard-Yale Race are going up for auction at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rowing to the Work Site
24 April 2022 By Philip Kuepper What proves difficultis being an archeologistwhose task is to oversee an excavation sitelocated on the surface of the ocean,the site always changing,the evidence always...
View ArticleClik here to view.
John Hawks Clasper, His Father’s Son. Part II: The Innovative Boat Builder
John Hawks Clasper pictured in racing kit alongside a modern image of his final boathouse in Putney. 20 April 2022 (Updated version: 25 April 2022) By Tim Koch In Part I, Tim Koch covered John Hawks...
View ArticleClik here to view.
James Fox is Hanging up his Oar
James Fox calls it quits. 26 April 2022 By Göran R Buckhorn James Fox, GB’s most successful Paralympic rower, is quitting. After a 10-year career, when no one managed to beat him in the boat,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Coaches for USRowing’s PR3 Mixed Four with Coxswain
The U.S. PR3 mixed four with coxswain, from stroke seat to bow: John Tanguay, Charley Nordin, Danielle Hansen, Allie Reilly and Karen Petrik. Photo: USRowing. 27 April 2022 Ellen Minzner, USRowing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Return of the Vikings
A reconstructed Viking longship is pictured rowing up the Thames at Hammersmith in 1949. Behind the man standing in the bows is what is now the Sons of the Thames Rowing Club and the industrial...
View ArticleClik here to view.
December 1991: Big Blades Introduced
29 April 2022By Bill MillerBill Miller finds a newsletter from December 1991.Perhaps it would be fun to turn the calendar back to a time when everyone used conventional symmetrical oar blades – 1991....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 2022 World Rowing Under 19 & Under 23 Championships Are Confirmed
The winners of the women’s double sculls, Lisa Bruijnincx (bow) and Jacobien Van Westreenen (stroke), of the Netherlands, at the 2021 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Racice, Czech Republic....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rowing the Earth
1 May 2022 By Philip Kuepper Though I know it unwiseto moor my boat to time,there is no other mooring I know of,only the mooring of time,passing. (20 April 2022)
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thirty Pieces of Silver (Almost)
This picture from 1851 hanging in London’s Waterman’s Hall shows Thomas Knott, a waterman dressed in his Coat and Badge. Knott operated from Iron Gate Stairs, which is about where Tower Bridge is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Feathers: A Forgotten Centre of Early British Rowing. Part I: Preamble
A modern watercolour based on a photograph taken in the 1870s of the Feathers Tavern and Boathouse, Wandsworth, an important but largely forgotten part of the history of rowing. 5 May 2022 By Tim Koch...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Feathers: A Forgotten Centre of Early British Rowing. Part II: The...
A picture of c.1830 titled Entrance to the Wandle from the Thames. The white building is most likely “The Feathers” pub. 6 May 2022 By Tim Koch In Part I, Tim Koch noted that conventional wisdom seems...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Feathers: A Forgotten Centre of Early British Rowing. Part III: Decline
The Feathers yard, a drawing from 1865 by Francis Seymour-Haden and mostly showing the part then occupied by the West London Rowing Club. The West London moved to the “more fashionable” Putney in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Handcraft
8 May 2022 By Philip Kuepper He planed the rib of the boat.He felt its smoothness,its bendability.Here was the carcassbefore the flesh,and the carcassafter the idea of ithad been made manifest.Once...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Windermere Cups go to Great Britain and the Netherlands
Saturday’s races for the women’s and men’s Windermere Cup in Seattle went to crews from Great Britain respectively the Netherlands. Photo: Windermere Cup Twitter account. 9 May 2022 By Göran R...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seven U.S. Crews to World Cup in Poznan
Justin Best and Michael Grady will represent USA in the pair at the World Cup Regatta in Poznan in June. Photo: USRowing. 10 Maj 2022 In a press release from yesterday, USRowing announced that seven...
View Article