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Smoke and Mirrors at the Royal Regatta
Veteran journalist, editor, author, writer and co-founder of the River and Rowing Museum, Chris Dodd (right), with one of the newest Henley Stewards, Aquil Abdullah, at this year’s regatta. 11 July...
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Olaf Tufte Awarded the Thomas Keller Medal
Olaf Tufte (left) received the Thomas Keller Medal from the hands of Dominik Keller, son of Thomas “Thomi” Keller. Photo: Olaf Tufte’s Instagram. 12 July 2022 By Göran R Buckhorn This past weekend, in...
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Henley 2022: Some Final Views
Oxford Brookes, winners of the Prince Albert, attempt a group hug (the cox is in there somewhere). 13 July 2022 By Tim Koch In his last piece on the 171st Henley Royal Regatta, Tim Koch posts some of...
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USRowing Receives NRF Grant
USRowing’s Meghan Musnicki (stroke) and Jessica Morrison (bow) won the Hambleden Pairs at Henley Royal Regatta recently. Photo: Tim Koch. 14 July 2022 The National Rowing Foundation (NRF) is...
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Pocock: Playing at Home
George Yeoman Pocock (1891 – 1976). 15 July 2022 By Chris Dodd Chris Dodd’s sixth occasional piece inspired by George Pocock’s memoirs. The 1948 Olympics brought George Pocock back to austerity...
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The Red Lake or the Lake of the Gods
Last weekend, Great Britain won seven gold medals and topped the medal table at the Lucerne Regatta. 16 July 2022 By Robert Treharne Jones, text & photos Robert Treharne Jones goes to Lucerne....
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Hamlet Fallout
Ophelia 1851-52, by Sir John Everett Millais, Bt (1829-1896). Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894 (Tate) 17 July 2022 By Philip Kuepper Ophelia, floatingin the Pre-Raphaelite dreamon the river of love...
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Hot Doggetts
Fishmongers’ Company Bargemaster and ex-officio Doggett’s Coat and Badge Umpire, Harry Phelps, feels the heat before the 1948 race. 18 July 2022 By Tim Koch Tim Koch on some hot news. On 15 July, the...
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European Under 23 Championships at Hazewinkel
19 July 2022 The European Rowing Board, Belgium Rowing Federation and Hazewinkel Organising Committee (OC) have given their go-ahead for the 2022 European Rowing Under 23 Championships to be held at...
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Pocock 7: Golden Gateway to Helsinki
George Pocock built all the boats used by the U.S. Team at the 1952 Olympic Regatta in Helsinki, Finland. 21 July 2022 By Chris Dodd In another occasional outing with boat builder and rowing...
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The North West International Rowing Association Regatta
22 July 2022 By Sarah Risser The North West International Rowing Association (NWIRA) is an historic rowing association comprised of competitive rowing clubs from Minnesota and western Canada. The...
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The Henry Zietlow Memorial Trophy is the NWIRA Latest Prize
NWIRA’s most recent required prize is the Henry Zietlow Memorial Trophy for the Junior Men’s Single. College Freshman Henry Zietlow was tragically killed in a car crash in January 2019. Henry is here...
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B.L.A.D.E.
24 July 2022By Philip KuepperDid I lie to you, deliberately?Or is it only my change of mind?In my poem O.A.R.I promised next R.O.W.But, now, instead,I give you B.L.A.D.E.For what is an O.A.R.without a...
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Under 19 and Under 23 Championships Start Today
The Under 19 and Under 23 Championships will start today at Varese, Italy. Photo: Marie Barge. 25 July 2022 Some of the world’s best male and female Under 19 and Under 23 rowers have gathered to start...
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Pictures From a Trip to the Trad
Motor-powered boats were in the majority at the 45th Thames Traditional Boat Festival (the TTBF or “The Trad”) held at Fawley Meadows, Henley-on-Thames on 15-17 July, but HTBS Types would have also...
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How the Waterloo Dispatch was Rowed to England
Chelsea Pensioners read the Waterloo Dispatch by Sir David Wilkie. 27 July 2022By William O’Chee The Battle of Waterloo forever changed the course of European politics, but few know the story of how...
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Duncan Clegg: Hero and Heavy
Robert Duncan Clegg (1942 – 2022) pictured in 2003. Picture: Peter Spurrier. 28 July 2022 By Hugh Matheson Hugh Matheson remembers Duncan Clegg, who died on 19 May, age 80. Glegg was involved in...
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Stanley Muttlebury’s Florentine Excursion?
29 July 2022 By William O’Chee Without doubt, Stanley Muttlebury was one of the great Cambridge University rowers of the nineteenth century, with five Boat Races and four wins to his name. Moreover,...
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R.O.W.
30 July 2022 By Philip Kuepper As promised,I row R.O.W. to you,rowed by a crew I will let you give name to by clues,a boat the current takes hold,causing it weave wildly about,with little clue to...
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Doggett’s 2022: By George!
George Gilbert will be the 308th man since 1715 to wear a Doggett’s Coat and Badge. 31 July 2022 By Tim Koch Tim Koch on an historic event that keeps making history. In my report on the Doggett’s Coat...
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