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Spracklen’s Whisper
Courtesy of Kevin Light Photography 1 August 2022By Grant Sommers We’ve done this a thousand times beforeBoat on gasoline slick, at the catchAnd Spracklen’s whisper begins to roar German’s listen –...
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Under 23 and Under 19 Championships – Results
The U.S. set World Rowing Under 19 Championships’ best time in winning the women’s eight on Lake Varese in Varese, Italy. Photo: USRowing 2 August 2022 The World Rowing Under 19 and Under 23...
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Irish Rowing in New London
The Custom House Pier at the Waterfront Park in New London was the place for a currach rowing regatta on 30 July. 3 August 2022By Göran R Buckhorn For the first time in his life, HTBS reporter Göran...
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Orwell on eBay: Doublepluswrong
The internet auction site, eBay, currently lists a rowing medal that the seller claims was won by George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair, 1903 – 1950), the writer most famous for Nineteen Eighty-Four and...
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Coupe de la Jeunesse in Castrelo de Miño, Spain
Team France in 2021. 5 August 2022 By Göran R Buckhorn The international youth regatta Coupe de la Jeunesse starts today with the opening ceremony in Castrelo de Miño, Spain. The regatta then runs...
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Rowing on Point – The Art of Georges Seurat
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-86) by Georges Seurat. 6 August 2022 By Scott Patterson A few years ago, whilst researching my book The Oarsmen, I had discovered that the...
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The Ritual, Enacted
7 August 2022By Philip KuepperI like the word lapstrake.I like the lattice-sounding sense of it,the lapping over, the layering, the interweaving.What simply beautiful curves shape the boat,the...
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Coupe de la Jeunesse – Results
No dark clouds over the GB team who competed at the Coupe de la Jeunesse in Castrelo de Miño, Spain, this past weekend. The British juniors became the overall winners of the regatta. Photo: British...
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European Championships
At the European Championships, which will start tomorrow, Oliver Zeidler of Germany will row on his home waters in Oberschleissheim. Zeidler is here seen racing at Henley earlier this year, where he...
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Paris Mystic
14 August 2022By Philip KuepperI live on the Left Bank of the Mystic,and cross the river, three days a week,to the Right Bank, where I work at the library, atop a hill,below which, lining our...
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The 2022 European Rowing Championships: In the Wake of History
The 20th European Rowing Championship was held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1912. 15 August 2022 By Tim Koch The 2022 European Rowing Championships finished yesterday, Sunday. They were held as part of...
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Hamish Bond New Volunteer Coach at Duke
Bond at Duke 16 August 2022By Göran R Buckhorn His name is Bond, Hamish Bond, and he has just joined the Blue Devil’s rowing as a volunteer coach. Last week, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina,...
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Jim Barker: One of the Great Rowing Advocates at the Schuylkill
Jim Barker. Photo: The Philadelphia Challenge Cup’s Instagram 17 August 2022 By Dotty BrownYesterday, 16 August, The Philadelphia Challenge Cup announced on its Instagram account the Jim Barker had...
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Rowing, At This Hour?!
21 August 2022 By Philip Kuepper Why my mindhas gone to the boat at this hour,only it knows.4:20 A.M., black as licorice, out.I can’t even imagine the wharf,let alone anything else.A lantern?...
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A Wellcome Discovery
“Artistic Poses” by Robert J. Colenso (1900). Plate XIIa: Rowing – Getting Forward. In 1900, a chap may have had his skin removed but he would still take the trouble to wax his moustache. Credit:...
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Cloisim an Bád ag Canadh / I Hear the Boat Sing
23 August 2022 By Greg Denieffe Greg Denieffe goes back to school. I doubt I am the only HTBS type that notices when rowing is used in unusual settings. Recently, I spotted rowing in the background of...
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Happy Birthday Steve!
The birthday boy 25 August 2022 Via social media, Jesus College, Cambridge sent HTBS a message reminding us that Steve Fairbairn, oarsman at Jesus and a Cambridge Blue in 1882, 1883, 1886 and 1887 and...
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The Rhyme of the Red Rowboat
The Merlin 16. Photo: Brooks Boat Designs 28 August 2022By Philip Kuepper‘Red rowboat, red rowboat,how you protestagainst the water which you cross,your loud outboardripping the water with...
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Wioślarskie on the Web: Images of Rowing during the Second Polish Republic
Members of the Warsaw Rowing Society (Warszawskie Towarzystwo Wioślarskie, WTW) cross the Poniatowski Bridge in a parade marking the opening of the rowing season, 1927. The numbers of impressively...
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New Race Format for the Gold Cup Challenge
31 August 2022 The Gold Challenge Cup Foundation will offer prize money for U.S. elite Para rowers in the Blackwall Duling Challenge, and U.S. elite rowers in the Lotman Challenge. In a press release...
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