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Cambridge Women’s Trail Eights: The Lion Queens
Stroke of the Sarabi crew and Cambridge Women’s President, Jenna Armstrong, backed up by Gemma King at “7”, lead the attack on their squadmates rowing as Mufasa during the Cambridge Trial Eights held...
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Oxford Women’s Trial Eights: Fratricide
Hands across the water from the Boat Race Trial crews named Romulus and Remus at the end of what was called the Oxford Women’s “A” Race held on 15 December. 22 December 2023By Tim Koch Tim Koch finds...
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Oxford Men’s Trial Eights: Noise Goes Up To 11 And Fights Off A Panic Attack
The Oxford Men’s Trail Eight crews Noise (left) and Panic (right) head to the start line of their 15 December trial race as part of selection for the 2024 Boat Race. Oxford has held trials since 1859....
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Cambridge Men’s Trial Eights: Blue Steel
In the 2001 Ben Stiller comedy, Zoolander, the eponymous anti-hero has a modelling pose that he calls “Blue Steel”. It involves having pursed lips and sucked-in cheeks with eyes looking into the...
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The Moth of Memory
A Smack Under Sail in a Light Breeze in a River (between 1756 and 1759) by Charles Brooking (1723–1759). In the public domain. 24 December 2023 By Philip Kuepper The decks of the wrecked boat were...
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Merry Christmas, 1913
25 December 2023By Göran R BuckhornIn December 1913, Ernest Hellström, a Swede who had immigrated to the United States and lived in the town of East Orange, New Jersey, received a card from his friend...
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Merry Christmas from Germany, 2023
26 December 2023By Göran R BuckhornBy now, it has become a tradition that HTBS reader Ralf-Peter Stumme in Germany sends HTBS some photographs of his and his rowing friends Christmas outing in...
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Tarrac – Film About An All-Female Currach Crew
27 December 2023By Göran R BuckhornThere has been quite a hype this month about George Clooney’s movie which is based on Daniel James Brown’s bestselling book, The Boys in the Boat. The film was...
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Notable Deaths of 2023
28 December 2023 HTBS remembers some of the rowers, coaches and rowing advocates who passed away in 2023. Ed Ferry, U.S. Olympic champion Peter-Michael Kolbe, German Olympic medallist and World...
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Rowing Books, 2023
29 December 2023Some interesting rowing books came out in 2023. Here they are shown in alphabetic order of author/editor. Daniel J. Boyne: Body of Water (Lyons Press) Göran R Buckhorn (editor): The...
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Teamwork
31 December 2023 By Philip Kuepper To begin with,the individual, the personal:health, strength, musclesworked into shape,singlet,the handling of oars,the maneuvering of the shell,all of which is to...
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HTBS in 2023
1 January 2024By Göran R Buckhorn HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn has been fidgeting with the 2023 numbers.It’s time to look how HTBS was doing last year.Sadly, HTBS didn’t manage to beat the 2022 record...
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Supermac: The Last Edwardian
The caption for this cartoon is “Change the crew? Why, we’ll row forever, steady from stroke to bow.” It relates to cox/Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s 1962 “Night of the Long Knives” when “Mac the...
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Anita DeFrantz Presented the 2024 NCAA President’s Gerald R. Ford Award
6 January 2024USRowing announced on 4 January that Anita DeFrantz will be honored with the 2024 NCAA President’s Gerald R. Ford Award on Wednesday, 10 January, at the National Collegiate Athletic...
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Waiting For Thaw
7 December 2024 By Philip Kuepper Bows of snownose boatsthat sat dockedovernightin the fall of whitefrom the overstuffedcomforter of heaven,feathery flakes, each one havinglanded with the sound of a...
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Two Degrees of Separation
George ‘Cat Beard’ Clooney. Picture: Cat Beard App. 10 January 2024By Greg Denieffe Greg Denieffe discovers a Real Cool Cat. “In the end, I suppose it was inevitable.” “What’s that Greg, Irish radio...
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HTBS@15: The Quindecennial Luncheon
12 January 2024By Tim Koch Tim Koch requests the pleasure of your company. On 12 March 2009, Göran R Buckhorn started his first post on his new “Blogspot” site by writing, “Against better judgment I...
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2024 World Rowing Calendar
You will probably not see any wooden boats at the regattas in 2024, except at the 2024 World Rowing Masters Regatta in Brandenburg, Germany. Photography © Jan Servin/Servin Design 13 January...
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A Few Haiku
14 January 2024 By Philip Kuepper Rowers’ reflectionsfloat upside down, heads scrapingthe sky’s blue ceiling. Oaring through a dreamof rowing, the rower foundstreams of consciousness. In the calm...
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