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The Why Of It
Photo: Wikipedia 28 May 2023 By Philip Kuepper Me? I couldn’t tell you.It seems to be just a matterof climbing into a shelland setting oars in motion.I think one is bornto the desire to row.It is a...
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2023 European Championships – Results
The closest race in the finals on Saturday was the men’s eights. Great Britain won by 0.05 seconds, Romania took the silver medal and the Netherlands took the bronze. Photo: British Rowing Twitter...
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Learn to Row Irish
29 May 2023 For those of you who are located in Eastern Connecticut, The New London Currach Rowers invite you to try out Irish currach rowing on Saturday, 3 June, in Hain’s Park/Roger Lake, Route 1 in...
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Was this Schoolboy Rower a Schoolboy Spy?
The embarkation photo of Sparkes when he left Australia for the First World War in 1916. 30 May 2023 By William O’Chee It is often said that fact is stranger than fiction, but few things are so...
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Uncovering the Truth Behind the Schoolboy Spies
The Australian Mounted Training Corps in London in 1914. Sparkes is third from the left, and James Hendy second from the left. 31 May 2023By William O’Chee William O’Chee continues the story from...
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Venetian Diary I: Gondoliers and Gondolas
The flag of the Republic of Venice, commonly known as the Banner of Saint Mark, the patron saint of the city, was the symbol of the Republic until its dissolution in 1797. 2 June 2023By Tim Koch Tim...
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Acts of Adherence
3 June 2023 By Philip Kuepper The towers of the bridge stoodlike giant twin erectionspiercing the fog. They stoodacts of adherence in the uncertain airthat hung over the nervous bay.Sunlight came and...
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In the Quiet of Twilight
4 June 2023 By Philip Kuepper In the quiet at twilightI heard the plashingof blades cutting the water.The air hung graywith the last of night.Dawn slept.The scape lay blank.I could see only erasure.I...
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Venetian Diary II: My Date With Maria
Like Tony in the musical, West Side Story, Tim Koch has just met a girl named Maria. He is pictured in Venice’s Correr Museum with champion Venetian rower, Maria Boscola, a woman that he had long...
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Venetian Diary III: The Long Row
An aerial view of a previous year’s Vogalonga (“Long Row”) start. It begins in the Bacino di San Marco, the wide stretch of water in front of St. Mark’s Square and the Ducal Palace. Opposite the...
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Leander Welcomes Colgan Foundation Sponsorship
Leander rowers Tom Ballinger and Becky Wilde in the new kit with Cogan Foundation logo. Photo courtesy Leander Club. 8 June 2023In a press release yesterday, Leander Club in Henley-on-Thames announced...
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Rowers from Russia and Belarus to be allowed to Race as Neutrals
9 June 2023By Göran R BuckhornGöran R Buckhorn is unhappy again. The World Rowing Executive Committee decided to allow a limited number of eligible athletes, holding a Russian or Belarusian passport,...
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Time for the 156th Yale-Harvard Regatta
Yale 1 Varsity crew 2023. Photo: Lisa Worthy/yalebulldogs.com 10 June 2023By Göran R BuckhornToday, it is time for the 156th edition of the Yale-Harvard Regatta (or Harvard-Yale Regatta, if you like)...
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Wednesday, May 3
11 June 2023 By Philip Kuepper It is four A.M. I awakento parallel images racingthrough my mind: Shell and dolphin.I sense the dolphin sensesthe shell another dolphin,images of such parallel...
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Yale Crews Give Gladstone Three Victories
Yale Clubhouse at Gales Ferry. Photo: Göran R Buckhorn 12 June 2023 By Göran R BuckhornOn last Saturday, 10 June, Göran Buckhorn found himself at the Yale Camp at Gales Ferry for the 156th edition of...
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Serving Rowing: The West End ARA
Are You Being Served? was an inexplicably popular bawdy British TV sitcom of the 1970s set in a fictitious department store, Grace Brothers. The show portrayed a way of retailing goods whose Victorian...
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The Henley Butterfly
14 June 2023By William O’Chee William O’Chee is already in Henley. The most beautiful butterfly will spend a large part of its life as a rather inelegant caterpillar, not flying through the air, but...
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River & Rowing Museum To Reopen
Photo courtesy of the River & Rowing Museum. 15 June 2023 By Göran R BuckhornThe River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames has announced that it will reopen on Saturday 1 July after being...
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Stonington PZC Approves Master Plan for Mystic River Boathouse Park
A rendering of the front (view from the east) of the Hart Perry Boathouse at the Mystic River Boathouse Park. Courtesy of SCRI. 16 June 2023By Göran R BuckhornThe other day, the Stonington Planning...
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War And Peace: The Life of Hugh “Jumbo” Edwards
Gavin Jamieson pictured at the recent launch of Water’s Gleaming Gold, his biography of Jumbo Edwards, “Oarsman, Olympian, Airman.” 17 June 2023 By Tim Koch Gavin Jamieson, who is married to Jumbo...
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