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Welcome to HTBS, Chris!
HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn writes: It is with great pleasure that I announce one of the sport of rowing’s most famous and well-regarded journalists and authors, Christopher ‘Chris’ Dodd, has agreed...
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Hear How the Hull Sings…
On 11 December, in a piece called “A Fast Boat”, rowing historian Bill Lanouette wrote that he was going for an outing in the so-called Stämpfli Express, or Stämpfli24x, with members of his club, San...
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Training for Doggett’s?
A card from the Victorian era. All the contributors to ‘Hear The Boat Sing’ (HTBS) hope that the readers have the holiday and the new year that they wish for. Let us end the year with a caption...
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This Old Pin
Pin, front HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn writes: HTBS received an e-mail from Jeff S., who has a question: ‘In the 1960s and early 1970s, I rowed with my school and a couple of clubs in...
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Crewcial Collectables: A Family Heirloom
(An occasional column about affordable rowing memorabilia) A Family Heirloom. Photo: Simon Andrews Greg Denieffe writes: The HTBS crew have been helping people with their rowing enquiries for several...
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HTBS Caption Competition Ends Tonight!
HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn writes: This is a reminder that our caption competition for the image above will end tonight at 2400 (12 p.m.) U.S. eastern time. It seems the dogs image has woken up a...
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The 2015 HTBS In Review
HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn writes: The WordPress.com prepared a 2015 annual report for HTBS. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 88,000...
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Richard Hylton-Smith, 1912-2015
Richard Hylton-Smith photographed in 2013 at the age of 100. He is holding a photograph taken on his 90th birthday in 2002 when he went rowing with his brother Ken, a former secretary of Leander. Tim...
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And the winner is…….?
On 25 December HTBS announced a Caption Competition for an old Victorian Holiday card with a coxed ‘dog four’. The HTBS readers thought well and hard and soon entries came in, either in the Comment...
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Downtime
To keep in shape winters he cross-country skied. Rowing on land is how he saw it, the trail, a river, banks of snow to both sides. He would let his mind go, raise it to another level, until it was as...
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1971: When Rowers Rowed WOOD
Some 1970s nostalgia: images of wooden boats, with ‘barn door rudders’, like on this Pocock shell can be found among Bill Howze’s photographs. © Photo: Bill Howze. HTBS received an e-mail from William...
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An 1875 Durham Regatta Medal
The scene on the front of the medal shows people watching the start of the race from Prebends Bridge in Durham. The boats below the bridge are ready to start, but this could not happen today. For the...
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Tideway Scullers 60th Anniversary: Celebrating Happy Days
The Tideway Scullers School oarsmen at the 60’s reunion in November 2015. From left to right: Mike Sweeney, Ray Tollman, Mike Muir Smith, Andy Kapica, Dave Gramolt , Rooney Massara, Mike Tebay, Chris...
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A Rowing Club Model – Brick By Brick
‘Adrienr94_8036’ is suggesting a LEGO ‘rowing club model’. Göran R Buckhorn writes: My son Anders, 10, loves to play with LEGO. Now he is old enough to build the sets himself and he seldom asks for his...
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New Rowing Book: A Sea To Row By – Poems by Philip Kuepper
Today ‘Hear The Boat Sing’ (HTBS) publishes its second book, A Sea To Row By – Poems by Philip Kuepper. HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn explains how it came to be. Göran writes: Philip W Kuepper In March...
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Rebranding The Boat Race
When Hugh Laurie (and seven others) rowed for Cambridge in 1980, it was the fourth time that the race had been sponsored. This picture must have taken during training as, until 2012, the sponsor’s name...
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Body Language
The rower sits, straight-backed, like the letter “L” in his scull, at the beginning of his row; at the close, the letter “C”, curved with exhaustion. Semitic, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, the river of...
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Tribute to Darryl Strickler
Graham Bright in his beautiful wooden shell. As HTBS wrote on 16 December, wooden boat enthusiast Darryl Strickler passed away on 12 October 2015. Many tributes have been heard all over the world about...
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The Website of Champions
Alan Campbell of Tideway Scullers passing the winning post in the 2010 Wingfield Sculls. Tim Koch writes: In 1830, H.C. Wingfield established a single sculling race for amateurs to be run on the Thames...
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The Swell of the Oceans
Kenneth Crutchlow passed away on 17 January. Crutchlow and Peter Bird founded The Ocean Rowing Society in 1983. Chris Dodd writes on Kenneth Crutchlow, who passed away on 17 January, and The Ocean...
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