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The Return of the Hyde Park Lancers
The wreath depicted is of the Combined Cavalry Old Comrades Association and is laid at the Cavalry Memorial in London’s Hyde Park every year on “Cavalry Sunday”. On the right is a Cavalryman (who may...
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Row Boat Diplomacy
The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson with his Swedish counterpart, Magdalena Andersson at the official country estate of the Swedish Prime Minister, Harpsund, sited on the southeast coast near...
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USPS Releases Four Women’s Rowing Stamps
The four stamps released by USPS celebrating women’s rowing. 14 May 2022 By Göran R Buckhorn The United States Postal Service (USPS) issued four commemorative forever stamps to celebrate women’s...
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To Care
15 May 2022 By Philip Kuepper He brought his boatout of the water,dragged it to a placeabove the tideline,turned it face down,and paused to make certainhis boat was safe.He had sniffed the air.He had...
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World Championships will take place in Račice in September
16 May 2022 The World Rowing Executive Committee and the Organising Committee (OC) have confirmed that the 2022 World Rowing Championships will take place in Račice, Czech Republic, on 18-25 September...
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Thanksgiving for the Life of Bill Windham
Bill Windham 17 May 2022By Göran R BuckhornAs HTBS reported in mid-January 2021, Bill Windham passed away on 5 January 2021, at the age of 94. Windham was a double Cambridge Blue, multiple Henley...
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Midnight’s Oarsmen
The British brought rowing as a sport and a leisure activity to India and their legacy continues to this day. Here, British Army Officers of the Chattar Manzil Club, coxed by a Miss Maxwell, pose in...
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Jim Dietz Rowing Center – Soon a Reality on the Mystic River
The Mystic River Boathouse Park. 20 May 2022 By Göran R Buckhorn Göran R Buckhorn hears some good news for the Mystic River. Hart Perry had a dream!For many years Hart Perry had a dream of building a...
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Bantam Men Chosen for Inaugural IRA Division III National Championship
21 May 2022The Trinity College (Hartford) men’s rowing team has been selected for the first-ever Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) Division III National Championship Regatta during the first...
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The Student
22 May 2022 By Philip Kuepper However he went aboutdisciplining himselfto focus on his studies,he saw the book open before hima racing shell, his mind,trying to concentrate, oars,that saw the text a...
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Seattle-on-Thames
This sign was on the river path at Henley-on-Thames, half-way down the regatta course, all last week. “BITB” stands for “Boys In The Boat.” 23 May 2022 By Tim Koch Tim Koch is on location. As many...
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Mark Jabalé: My Conversion to Rowing
At the 2019 Henley Royal Regatta, forty years after becoming World Champions in the coxless four lightweight – from left: Colin Barratt, Stuart Wilson, Ian Wilson, (Coach) Farther Mark and Nick Howe....
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World Cup I on Sava Lake
Sava Lake, Belgrade, is the spot for the first World Cup Regatta for 2022. Photo: World Rowing 25 May 2022 This coming weekend, it is time for the first World Rowing Cup of the year. The regatta will...
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Pocock in Berlin: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
In power since 1933, the Nazi Government saw the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a way of promoting National Socialist Germany to the world. Not everyone was taken in. On the right, a satirical photomontage...
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Josy Verdonkschot Writes a Letter
Josy Verdonkschot 27 May 2022The other day, Dutch Coach Josy Verdonkschot, who was appointed USRowing’s Chief High Performance Officer on 23 December 2021, wrote an open letter to those involved in...
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An Unholy Amalgam of Disparate Prints
Finland and Sweden recently applied for membership of NATO and Boris Johnson has signed security agreements for the UK to defend them from any threat from ‘21st century tyrant’ Vladimir Putin....
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Who Fishing Whom
29 May 2022By Philip Kuepper The two men rowed to the spot where the fishhad been biting, yesterday. They rested their oars.This was no longer the luxury of college rowing.This was about...
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World Cup I Results
The PR2 women’s single sculls (PR2 W1x) was won by Lauren Rowles of Great Britain. Photo: World Rowing 30 May 2022 The first World Cup Regatta of the year was held this past weekend on Sava Lake in...
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HOCR Supports USRowing at Henley
USRowing is getting financial support from HOCR to go to Henley Royal Regatta this year. Photo: Tim Koch 31 May 2022 The other day, USRowing announced that the Head Of The Charles Regatta (HOCR) will...
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