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Electile Dysfunction 2*
A Punch cartoon of March 1924, published six weeks into Britain’s first Government formed by the predominantly centre-left Labour Party. 1 February 2016 Tim Koch writes: Something strange is happening...
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Making Possible
2 February 2016 I am thinking of the strand of evolutionary DNA that makes possible the rower, from the dug-out canoe of indigenous American tribes, to the sleek racing shells of today. In each...
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The NRF’s 2016 Inductees to the National Rowing Hall of Fame
3 February 2016 On 26 January, the National Rowing Foundation (NRF), with its headquarters in Connecticut, announced the selection of the 2016 inductees to the NRF’s National Rowing Hall of Fame....
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World Rowing Calls for Nominations for the 2016 Thomas Keller Medal
Thomas ‘Thomi’ Keller. Photo: World Rowing. 5 February 2016 In a press release the World Rowing Federation, FISA, announces that it has opened the nomination process for the 2016 Thomas Keller Medal to...
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The Ode of the Oars
6 February 2016 ‘On fine mornings my oars take on the shades of blue that are the sea: cerulean, purple, aquamarine, green, cobalt, violet, the azure of dusk, lavender. I row from Nice, along the...
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Don’t Shoot the Messenger*
The famous protest on the 1968 Olympic 200m medal podium. Illustration by Chris Grosz. 10 February 2016 Greg Denieffe writes: In 1968, the 21st Olympic Games were held in Mexico City and they are...
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Bill Stowe – American Olympic Rowing Champion Dies
Bill Stowe (second from left) and the Vesper BC’s 1964 Olympic crew. Photo: USRowing. 11 February 2016 The U.S. rowing community has received sad news that one of the great American rowing Olympians,...
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The Om of Oars
12 February 2016 The first sound of oars in water mornings, Ah! Emanating from them, the brushing of peace rising in the air; the shrugging of oars pulling on the water waking slowly all the still...
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Valentine’s Day: How To Win A Rower’s Heart
Advice from Tim Koch: Say it with flowers. Feign interest in their ergo scores. Smell like a regatta. Don’t laugh at their kit. Read them romantic fiction. Give them a surprise. Tagged: Tim Koch,...
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The Intrepid Rower
The Mystic River. Photo: Ingrid Buckhorn. 16 February 2016 Just now the marsh rattles dry and tan in winter wind. Trees clack like bones. Crows caw down the morning. My boots click pavement. I am out...
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HTBS is Now on Instagram
Among the first 15 images of famous scullers on HTBS’s Instagram is Bert Bushnell, 1948 Olympic champion. 17 February 2016 HTBS’s editor Göran R Buckhorn writes: In writing this, since March 2009,...
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The River Post
18 February 2016 Greg Denieffe writes: A new set of postage stamps was issued by Royal Mail yesterday, 17 February, to celebrate 500 years of Royal Mail history. There are six stamps in total and the...
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‘Men of the Thames’
Watermen are amongst both passengers and crew as the P.S. Elizabethan follows the 2012 Doggett’s Coat and Badge race. 19 February 2016 Tim Koch writes: A 2013 television documentary on Thames Watermen...
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Rowing Beyond Twilight
20 February 2016 ‘My name? I am Charon. My job? I row the souls of the dead to the far shore. Shades, the souls are called, shades of their once flesh and bones selves. Sad? I don’t understand why sad....
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Oars of Paradox
21 February 2016 Rowers work backwards to get ahead. Philip Kuepper (18 January 2016) Tagged: Philip Kuepper, Rowing Poetry
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Carving Wood as a Side Gig
22 February 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: The name Roman Horoszewski might not ring a bell for many American rowers or coaches. Truth be told, it is not as a rowing coach at The Peddle School in...
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Rowing Sports Illustrated
23 February 2016 Thomas E. Weil Thomas E. Weil writes: The public dissemination of sporting news imagery has ridden a meteoric path over the last two and a half centuries. Today we can follow not only...
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Rowing Through the Lens
Aiguebelette, FRANCE, RUS M8+. training on the Lac d’Aiguebelette. in early morning misty conditions 2015 FISA World Rowing Championships, Venue, Lake Aiguebelette – Savoie. Sunday 06/09/2015. © Peter...
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A Look Back at Newspapers of Old and their Rowing Correspondents
An old photograph of members of the staff at the Independent on Sunday. 25 February 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: In mid-February, Moscow-born Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the Evening Standard and...
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How a Cartoon of a Racing Shell Explains Britain’s Brexit
Signature ‘Kak”s take on Brexit in the French newspaper L’Opinion. Courtesy of ‘Kak’. 26 February 2016 Earlier this week, a funny cartoon by ‘Kak’*, an editorial cartoonist on the French newspaper...
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