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Using My Time Wisely
12 May 2024 By Philip Kuepper I climb into each hourlike a rower into a shell,the hands of the clock my oars.I row the minutes,each minute white capped by a second.Time is not lost on mewhen I take...
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Edris Marks: One of the Founders of Australian Women’s Rowing
13 May 2024 By William O’Chee Today marks the 104th anniversary of the founding of the Australian Ladies Rowing Council, the world’s first governing body for women’s sport. William O’Chee looks at one...
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Pocock’s Prize
George Pocock in a single sculls in the 1920s or 1930s. 14 May 2024 By Thomas Wigley Rowing historian Al Mackenzie recently shared an intriguing image of a certificate published in Gordon Newell’s...
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Tailor-Made: Rowing Blazers is Revised and Expanded
Picture © Carlson Media Inc via rowingblazers.com 15 May 2024By Tim Koch Tim Koch on a welcome revision. Remarkably, it is ten years since I reviewed the first edition of Jack Carlson’s Rowing...
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NYAC Celebrates 150 Years of Rowing
Team USA 2024 W8-Olivia Coffey, Madeline Wanamaker, Brooke Mooney, Alina Hagstrom, Charlotte Buck, Claire Collins. 16 May 2024By Barney Karol Inspired by Tom Weil’s account in these pages (March 16,...
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UCLA Men’s Rowing Launches a $10M Campaign
The UCLA Varsity Eight – winners of the 2023 ACRA National Championships. 17 May 2024By Göran R Buckhorn University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Men’s Rowing has launched an ambitious $10 million...
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Musical Boats
19 May 2024 By Philip Kuepper Boats sit, notes,on the sheet music bay.They appear to have been written thereby a pen in the handof a composer in the heatof composition. The boatssit there, notes to...
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The Dragon Slayers of Hyde Park, Part I of III: RV
The 100-year-old cavalry war memorial in London’s Hyde Park depicts St George slaying a dragon. Incongruously, the vanquished beast sports a moustache as worn by the German Kaiser in the 1914-18 War,...
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The Dragon Slayers of Hyde Park, Part II of III: The Parade
The Cavalry Memorial in Hyde Park, the centrepiece of Cavalry Sunday, properly called the Combined Cavalry Old Comrades Association Parade and Memorial Service. It originally remembered the cavalry...
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The Dragon Slayers of Hyde Park, Part III of III: The Memorial Service and...
The Last Post is played at the unveiling of the Cavalry Memorial in 1924. It was then sited on the edge of Hyde Park at Stanhope Gate, a few hundred yards from its present location. 22 May 2024By Tim...
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“Last Chance Regatta” in Lucerne
With Denmark taking a second place by just 0.19 seconds ahead of China in the eight in Lucerne, the Danes qualified for the first time in the women’s eight at the Olympic Games. Photo: World Rowing 23...
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HOSR Story Hour: Saving Historic Rowing Landmarks
24 May 2024It is time for the HOSR Committee 50’s next Story Hour, which is going to focus on historical preservation of American boathouses, the Committee 50 announces in a press release, which...
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The Sadistic Joker
26 May 2024 By Philip Kuepper The hurricane hurledboats landside,as though saying,‘Sail that!’,and faded back outover the ocean, laughing,cruelly, at its own joke. (31 March 2024)
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Memorial Day
27 May 2024 Today we honor and mourn the military personnel who gave their liveswhile serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.
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R.I.P. Clive Radley
Clive Radley with Dame Katherine Grainger and Sir Steve Redgrave. 27 May 2024By Göran R BuckhornSad news reaches HTBS that Clive Radley passed away on 10 May. Clive had many interests in life, the...
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Clive Of The Lea
Clive Radley pictured in an umpire’s launch while following a race involving Lea Rowing Club at Henley in 2017. 28 May 2024By Tim Koch Further to Göran Buckhorn’s report on the death of Clive Radley,...
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Farewell PAC-12 Rowing Championships
The last PAC-12 Rowing Championships Jury, May 2024. 29 May 2024By John Wylder Visiting the last PAC-12 Championships Regatta, John Wylder asks what will happen to the trophies? My wife Carolyn “Lyn”...
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The Coombes Monument: Four Heads Are Better Than None
Robert John Coombes (1808 – 1860) was a celebrated professional oarsman and sculler who was the Champion of the Thames, 1846 – 1851, and who in his prime defeated many of the most successful...
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Eights Week: 200 Years of Snakes and Ladders
The earliest-known picture of a race between eight-oared boats at Oxford, this between Jesus College and Brasenose College in 1821 or 1822. 31 May 2024By Tim Koch Tim Koch follows Jesus and forty-two...
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A Rower Becomes the New Head of Yale
Dr. Maurie McInnis – Yale’s Rowing President. Photo: Wikipedia 1 June 2024By Göran R BuckhornIn the middle of the week, Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, announced that the school’s new...
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