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The Opera of Rowing
17 September 2023 By Philip Kuepper Waves gather like drama queensabout to break into song.Waves take a deep concerted breath,and break against the rowerswhose strokes complement the waves’...
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The Swedish King Gets an Outing in Vasaorden
King Carl XVI Gustaf in 1973 and in 2023. 18 September 2023By Göran R Buckhorn The Kingdom of Sweden is celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Carl XVI Gustaf, 77, who ascended the throne on 15 September...
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The Shamrock and the Silver Fern
Tony O’Connor (with his wife Rachel), sporting one of his Irish Olympic blazers and a Rowing New Zealand tie at Henley Royal Regatta in July 2019. His crew, rowing as Waiariki R.C., won the Grand...
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The GRR: Where East Meets West
Nearly 300 boats took part in the 34th Great River Race (GRR) on Saturday, 16 September. While a minority treat the GRR as a race, for most it is simply a great event to be part of. Image: GRR. 20...
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2023 World Rowing Masters Regatta
21 September 2023The World Rowing Masters Regatta starts today in Tshwane, South Africa. This will be the first World Rowing event to be held in Africa. The regatta will run for four days and end on...
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Chester Regatta, Part I: Old But How Old?
Detail from a poster for the Chester Regatta of 1819. 22 September 2023By Tim Koch Unusually, Tim Koch looks northwards. In his book, A Social History of English Rowing (1992), Neil Wigglesworth...
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Nominate for the 2023 World Rowing Awards
23 September 2023It’s time to nominate crews, a coach and a Thomas Keller Medal winner for the 2023 World Rowing Award. Nominate in the following categories:World Rowing Men’s Crew of the YearThe...
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2023 WRMR: Opening Ceremony
23 September 2023On Thursday, 21 September, the 2023 World Rowing Masters Regatta started at Roodeplaat Dam in Tshwane, South Africa, with the Opening Ceremony featuring performances, speeches and a...
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The Meat of the Nut
24 September 2023 By Philip Kuepper I sit back, fascinated,by how words playwith my mind.Consider the word “shell”.Consider its use as enclosure.A shell encloses a nut.A shell encloses a rower.Each...
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Chester Regatta, Part II: Getting Established, 1814 – 1819
An annotated map of Chester, a city in northwest England twenty miles from Liverpool, showing the start and finish points of the early Chester Regattas. 25 September 2023By Tim Koch Tim Koch continues...
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Chester Regatta, Part III: Stops and Starts, 1829 – 1837
This mid-nineteenth century view of “Chester from a balloon” shows the great potential for boat racing that the city’s River Dee offered. 26 September 2023By Tim Koch There are five River Dees in...
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2023 WRMR – The Unsung Heroes
Someone made sure that the monkeys were not fed. 27 September 2023 At the World Rowing Masters Regatta at Roodeplaat Dam in Tshwane, South Africa, like any other regatta around the world, big or...
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Chester Regatta, Part IV: 1838, A More Certain Future
Just as it took one world event (the apparent defeat of Napoleon) to produce the first Chester Regatta in 1814, so it took another (the Coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838) to revive the moribund...
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Chester Regatta, Part V: Gentlemen In Charge, 1839 – 1855
Chester Regatta, 1854. Race for the Grosvenor Challenge Cup between the Victoria of Chester and the Nemesis of Manchester. This was an historic race as the Victoria was a smooth-bottomed keelless four...
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Siobhan Cassidy is New Chair of the BRCL Board
30 September 2023 Photo and story courtesy of The Boat Race Last Wednesday, The Boat Race Company Limited (BRCL) announced that Siobhan Cassidy had been formally appointed as Chair of the Board of...
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A Composition
1 October 2023 By Philip Kuepper To and fro,the bow rowsthe violin’s strings,rows like a boat,rapidly, as though in a race,at times rows faster than rapidly,depending on the tempoof the music, like...
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Class of 2023 National Rowing Hall of Fame®
1 October 2023 In a press release the National Rowing Foundation writes:The National Rowing Foundation (NRF) is pleased to announce the 2023 National Rowing Hall of Fame® inductees. The ceremony will...
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“The Greatest Rowing Stories Ever Told” Is Out Today
Several of the regular and irregular contributors to HTBS have “stories” in the anthology The Greatest Rowing Stories Ever Told, which is published by Lyons Press and is out in the book shops today. 2...
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Chester Regatta, Part VI: Gentlemen Still In Charge, 1862 – 1872
Competitive rowing on the River Dee at Chester, date unknown. 3 October 2023By Tim Koch Tim Koch continues to try and make the complicated history of amateurism at Chester Regatta accessible and...
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Chester Regatta, Part VII: Amateurism, 1872 – 1937
Chester, while not near to approaching its 300th anniversary as is often claimed, was founded in 1814 it is quite possibly the oldest regatta of its type. 4 October 2023By Tim Koch Tim Koch concludes...
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