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The Medical Miracle
26 November 2023 By Philip Kuepper Their shells raced like lasersalong the river,cutting cleanly throughthe flesh of the water,leaving no visible scarsto show there had beenan operation performed. (19...
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Blues Funk Part I
Dark clouds looming: Oxford on the start of the 1987 Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race. 28 November 2023By Chris DoddChris Dodd meanders in mutiny. Once upon a time a Dark Blue Cloud hung over the Dreaming...
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Blues Funk Part II
At the weigh-in for the 1987 Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race, OUBC’s Gavin Stewart is pictured attempting a moment of levity with cox Andy Lobbenburg for the benefit of photographers. After the events of...
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HOSR Story Hour: Builder of Boats and the Boys: A Pocock Legacy
30 November 2023By Göran R BuckhornTime to sign up for the last of the Committee 50 Story Hour for the year.The zoom event will be honoring boatbuilder George Pocock, whose career and contributions to...
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“Dear Lucy & Jim” – A George Pocock Letter from Berlin, 1936
Ready for departure to Germany on the SS Manhattan, the boys and their coach, Al Ulbrickson (on the far right) and George Pocock, boatman for the U.S team (on the far left). 1 December 2023By Göran R...
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On Appetites
3 december 2023 By Philip Kuepper The sea broke the boat in two,snapped it like a breadstick,and swallowed itto cut its hunger,waiting for the maincourse to be brought,which proved an elaborateplatter...
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Wyld About Boats
An illustration from The Manual of British Rural Sports: Comprising Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Fishing, Hawking, Racing, Boating, Pedestrianism, and the Various Rural Games and Amusements of Great...
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HOSR December Story Hour: Builder of Boats and the Boys: A Pocock Legacy
9 December 2023On Wednesday 6 December, the Committee of the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta (HOSR) hosted the last rowing history Zoom event of the year. The event was called “Builder of Boats and the...
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A Mystical Experience
10 december 2023 By Philip Kuepper As I sat waiting in traffic at the drawbridge,raised to let pass through Mayflower II,a sudden, delightful thoughtscurried up the rigging of my minddepositing in one...
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The Fag End of the John Player Sponsorship Story
The Tideway Scullers First Eight of 1967. From left to right: Pat Barry, Bob Carpmael, Chris Harris, Graham Hodgson, Stan Breed (cox), Nick Cooper, Bill Barry, Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh, Mike Sweeney. 11...
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Trials On The Thames
A very civil war. The Cambridge Men after their trial race for the 2023 Boat Race. To be in a winning Trial Boat does not guarantee a place in a Blue Boat. Picture: Benedict Tufnell/Row360. 12...
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And the Winners are…
Caryn Davies, USA, is the recipient of the 2023 Thomas Keller Medal. 13 December 2023By Göran R BuckhornOn Monday, World Rowing announced the winners of the 2023 World Rowing Awards at a virtual event...
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Remembering Peter-Michael Kolbe
Peter-Michael Kolbe pictured after winning Gold at the 1983 World Championships. 14 December 2023By Hugh Matheson Peter-Michael Kolbe died on 8 December in Lübeck, Germany, at the age of 70. He was...
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Who Built the Husky Clipper?
George Pocock 15 December 2023 By Lee CorbinSo, who built the now famous Husky Clipper? Well, George Pocock, of course, but he had a little help from several others, Lee Corbin writes. It would be an...
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A Day At The Museum
The River and Rowing Museum (RRM) under construction. It was officially opened by the late Queen on 6 November 1998. 16 December 2023By Tim Koch Remarkably, Tim Koch finds something interesting on...
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Learning A Language
17 December 2023 By Philip Kuepper The boat shed stood a paintedblaze of red, latein fall among the now nakedmaples, ginkoes, London planes.Herein the shells laidstacked on racks,draped in memories of...
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The Professional Scullers’ Off-The-Water Activities – Part I
(From the Bill Miller Collection) 18 December 2023By Bill Miller Rowing historian Bill Miller is undertaking a huge project to search for 19th-centuary rowing articles published in the Boston Globe....
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The Professional Scullers’ Off-The-Water Activities – Part II
(From the Bill Miller Collection) 19 December 2023 By Bill MillerThis is the second part of a two-part article by rowing historian Bill Miller, who is undertaking a huge project to search for...
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By George!
The much anticipated film of the best-selling book, The Boys In The Boat, is released in the US on Christmas Day 2023, in Australia on 4 January 2024 and in the UK on 12 January 2024. 20 December...
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Rosebud’s a Sled!
The Boys in George Clooney’s Boat. Picture: Trailer screenshot. 21 December 2023By Peter Mallory Peter Mallory reviews the film of that book. Last week I got to see the new theatrical feature, The...
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