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Toronto’s Argonaut Rowing Club Celebrates 150 Years
9 December 2022By Grant Sommers The Argonaut Rowing Club was founded in 1872 by Englishman Henry O’Brien. His intent was to create a competitive rowing club which would become one of the best. After...
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Bending Water
10 December 2022 By Philip Kuepper ‘Anything is possible,’ he boasted.‘Anything,’ I asked.‘Anything,’ he repeated.‘So then, it’s possible for meto pick up a length of waterand bend it?’ (21 November...
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Sailing the Sea of Words
Dutch sculler in a “skiff”. 11 December 2022 By Philip Kuepper About the yawl:I like the sound of that word.I like the feel of it in my mouth.And it being my craft,I sail it into the waters of...
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A History of Northwich Rowing Club
12 December 2022 By Jane Kingsbury After reading about the book on the Argonauts’ celebration of their club’s 150th years on HTBS, Jane Kingsbury was reminded that she had just finish reading the...
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Steve Gladstone will Retire
Steve Gladstone. Photo: Göran Buckhorn 13 December 2022By Göran R Buckhorn News came from Yale last week that, after 13 years as the Craig W. Johnson ’68 Head Coach of Heavyweight Crew, Steve...
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Athena and Beetle Pass Oxford’s Tideway Test
James Forward, “7” in “Wedge”, seems to be exchanging knowing glances with Johnny Davidson, “4” in “Beetle”, as the Oxford men’s trail eights fight it out in Chiswick’s Corney Reach. 17 December...
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Cambridge Trial Eights: Rapinoe and Youth are First Among Equals
In the Cambridge Men’s Trial Eights run over the Tideway Championship Course last Monday, Lightweight Blue Matt Edge (pictured) stroked “Experience”. His crew raced against “Youth”, stroked by the...
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Hands
19 December 2022 By Philip Kuepper They saw to itthey always had a choice.Oars or paddles, always,leaned against the barn,the river running next the farm,a tease to lure them from their work.Hands are...
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Jesse Foglia Named Head Coach of Princeton Training Center
20 December 2022 Jesse Foglia USRowing announced in a press release yesterday that Jesse Foglia has been named Head Coach of the USRowing Training Center – Princeton. Foglia, who has been the...
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USRowing Announces the 2022 Award Winners
Matt Smith 23 December 2022 USRowing has just announced the winners of its eight Board of Directors-selected annual awards for 2022 in a press release. The following individuals are being honored for...
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Happy Christmas from Germany
24 December 2022HTBS receive an email this morning from the loyal HTBS reader Ralf-Peter Stumme in Germany. We would like to share his pictures from his traditional Christmas outing. Ralf-Peter...
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The Three Graces Poems
26 December 2022 By Philip Kuepper To An Artist I(for Valerie Cotton) Artist Valerie Cotton They appear a regatta of suggestions of white moths,the brushstrokes of sailboats on the lake foregroundof...
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Stonington Community Rowing, Inc. 2022 Report
A rendering of the front (view from the east) of the Hart Perry Boathouse at the Mystic River Boathouse Park. Courtesy of SCRI. 29 December 2022By Göran R BuckhornJohn Thornell, Girls Head Coach for...
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Looking Forward
In the not-too-distant past, there would have been a large turnout of photographers and journalists on significant occasions leading up to the annual Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race. While the numbers of...
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Happy New Year!
31 December 2022 Dear readers and friends of HTBS ~ ~ ~ HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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The 2022 HTBS Numbers
1 January 2023By Göran R Bckhorn HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn is counting last year’s numbers.How was 2022? Well, COVID-19 was still around only with different variants, though most countries seemed...
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The Winter Boat
Photo: Wikipedia 8 January 2023 By Philip Kuepper Quietly, quietly,through the night,flakes of snow had fallenand trimmed the boata lustrous white,moonlight brushed pale lavender.Come dawn, I founda...
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No New Dawn For Hammersmith Bridge
OK, unless the sun has started to rise in the West, this is actually an evening sunset at Hammersmith Bridge, not a dawn sunrise. 9 January 2023By Tim Koch Tim Koch finds some positive action at...
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Restoration of the Burk and Pocock Single
Joe Burk, winner of the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1938. 10 January 2023 By Richard “Rick” Stehlik(photographs provided by the author unless otherwise is stated) Rick Stehlik...
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