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The River Waiting
Mystic River in snow. Photo: Ingrid Buckhorn. 27 February 2016 The grayscape of winter, backlit by frosted light, drapes the air. Everywhere is saturated with last night’s rain. A skiff sits,...
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RIP Jim Pocock
The Adee Boathouse. 28 February 2016 The sad news has reached HTBS that Jim Pocock, of Milford, Connecticut, has passed away. Mr Pocock was the son of Dick Pocock, Doggett’s Coat and Badge winner of...
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The Fresco
29 February 2016 ‘The display of Navy rowers proves superb, here, in the harbor at Thera; fourteen ships manned to perfection, the seven smaller ones with five rowers each. Nearly the whole of the town...
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No Swan Song For Cygnet: A review of “A History of Cygnet Rowing Club, 1890 –...
1 March 2016 Tim Koch writes: To those who give the matter any thought at all, there is a tendency to think that the story of amateur rowing in Britain has been, until comparatively recently at least,...
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A Good Steer on the Tideway
Oxford in the lead against Molesey. Photo: theboatrace.org 2 March 2016 Chris Dodd writes from Putney: Oxford University’s women ventured onto the Tideway on Sunday, 28 February, to pitch themselves...
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‘You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat’*: The 2016 Boat Race Weigh-in
The 1874 Boat Race weigh-in, probably at London Rowing Club. The average weight that year was 11 stone 11 pounds which equates to 165 lbs or 74.84 kgs – almost the same as the 2016 Cambridge women’s...
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RIP Sarah Tait
Sarah Tait and her daughter Leila at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Photo: Rowing Australia website. 4 March 2016 Condolences are coming in from the entire world rowing community after Rowing Australia...
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A Reappraisal of the Importance of the River Lea
The Radley’s first boathouse and cottage; picture probably from the early 1900s (family photo). 5 March 2016 Clive Radley, author of The Radleys of the Lea, continues his quest to get the River Lea...
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A Yank on a Broadside
Coach and Pupil. Photo courtesy of The National Rowing Foundation. 7 March 2016 Greg Denieffe writes: One of our favourite sons on ‘Hear The Boat Sing’ (HTBS) is Benjamin Hunting Howell. He was a...
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Rowing Through the Poem of Morning
8 March 2016 How like a million slender oars the leaves of grass blowing in the meadow, leaves of grass set to blowing by Walt’s breath, breath whispering, whispering through the grass to the river’s...
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The Indomitable Amy Gentry: Pioneer of Women’s Competitive Rowing
Amy at stroke in a Weybridge Ladies eight at Putney. 9 March 2016 Tim Koch writes: Yesterday, it was International Women’s Day and Henley’s River and Rowing Museum marked it with a talk by its Head of...
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The History of Pengwern BC – And the Friendship Between Two Rowing Historians
Pengwern’s Boat House on the Severn at Shrewsbury. Pengwern Boat Club, founded in 1871, is located in Shrewsbury Town Centre, Shropshire, in a picturesque river-side setting. 10 March 2016 Clive Radley...
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Crew Practice
11 March 2016 A calm comb of honey-colored light drew itself through the reeds in the marsh, and dripped onto the back of an egret, feeding, who did not flinch at the touch of the light. A mallard...
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HTBS Turns 7
12 March 2016 HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn writes: Today, ‘Hear The Boat Sing’ (HTBS) is celebrating seven years, in a way an amazing achievement, if I may say so myself. I would like to take the...
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A Celebration
Photo: London RC. 14 March 2016 An aura of rowing hung low over the bay, the heats completed, the race won. Quiet lay everywhere, piers, boat sheds, clubhouses. A breeze visited out of curiosity, and...
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George Harrison and Henley
15 March 2016 Clive Radley, a Beatles fan writes: Reading about the recent death of George Martin, the so-called fifth Beatle, reminded me of the Beatles’ Henley ‘connection’ – George Harrison lived...
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Making a Tideway Head Happen: The Chief Marshal’s View
University Stone and the University Post, just downstream of Chiswick Bridge. This is the finish point for the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race and the start point for all the Tideway head races. 16 March...
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It was Different in the 1950s
A true amateur team: England’s women’s eight at Macon in 1951. Photo courtesy of Clive Radley. 17 March 2016 In response to yesterday’s post “Making a Tideway Head Happen: The Chief Marshal’s View”...
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David Scherman’s Photographs: Showing some Legs on the Schuylkill
4 July 1939: Fred Plaisted and a young member of Philadelphia Girls’ Rowing Club are trying to figure out how not to get the woman’s dress stuck in the sliding seat during racing. Photo: David E....
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Out of Order: The 2016 Head of the River Race
From the Mile Post, the man who founded the Head of the River Race in 1926, Steve Fairbairn, keeps an eye on his creation. ‘Steve’ claimed that ‘It is not a race, it is merely a means of getting crews...
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