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Silk On Silk
25 August 2024 By Philip Kuepper Rowers manning shellsare reminiscent of dolphins,long, slender, slippingthrough water, effortlessly,penetrating liquid material,as though they areof the very...
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Nothing New
A cartoon from the Wide-Awake Pictorial of 1 November 1860 produced during the 1860 US presidential election campaign. 26 August 2024By Tim Koch Tim Koch on political déjà vu. The 1860 US presidential...
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The Yvon Brothers – Photographers and Oarsmen
The cover of Yvon, photographes et canotiers by Jean Distel. 27 August 2024By Hélène RémondJean Distel has published a book about the brothers Charles and Jules Yvon, photographers and rowers, Hélène...
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Ann Arbor will host the 2025 RowFest National Championships
Ford Lake, Michigan. Photo: Wikipedia 28 August 2024In a press release the other day, USRowing announced Ann Arbor, Michigan, as the destination for USRowing’s 2025 RowFest National Championships.In...
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Swedish Olympian Gösta Eriksson Dies
The Swedish coxed four showing off their 1956 Olympic silver medals. From l to r: Evert Gunnarsson, Ivar Aronsson, Bertil Göransson (cox), Gösta Eriksson and Olle Larsson. 29 August 2024 By Göran R...
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A Memorial to Ned (and Louis)
Louis Petrin pictured in 2013 holding Australia’s most iconic rowing trophy, the King’s Cup. 30 August 2024 By Tim Koch RIP Louis Petrin was an obituary posted on Hear The Boat Sing on 13 April 2021....
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Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Regatta Has Started
Benjamin Pritchard of Great Britain set a new Paralympic Games Best Time in the PR1 men’s single sculls. Photo: British Rowing 30 August 2024Today was the first day for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games...
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Three New World Rowing Awards
31 August 2024World Rowing has announced that the organisation has introduced three new awards to be handed out at the 2024 World Rowing Awards ceremony on 9 November. The World Rowing Awards are an...
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The Fishing Expedition
The Flying Dutchman, c. 1896, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, provided to Wikimedia Commons by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of a cooperation project., Public Domain. 1 September 2024 By Philip...
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Paris 2024 Paralympic Regatta A-Finals
Gold medallist Moran Samuel flanked by Birgit Skarstein, who took the silver (l) and Nathalie Benoit, bronze medallist (r). Photo: World Rowing 2 September 2024After two days of racing at the Paris...
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R.I.P. Thomas E. Weil, 1948-2024
Thomas E. Weil 2 September 2024 By Göran R Buckhorn It is with deep sorrow we share the sad news that after a brave battle with cancer, our dear friend, rowing historian, scholar and writer Thomas E....
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Remembering Tom
Tom Weil, 1948 – 2024. 2 September 2024 By Tim KochTom Weil, rowing historian, collector and philanthropist, has died aged 75. He occupied a unique and irreplaceable place in the world of those...
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RTJ: Good News On “The Voice”
Dr Robert Treharne Jones, the “Voice of Rowing”, has commentated on Henley and the Boat Race, and on rowing at the Olympics, World Championships, and World Cup. He has been the press officer for both...
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Tom Remembered At Henley
The Leander flag at half-mast for Tom Weil. 6 September 2024 A statement from Steve O’Connor, the Director of Henley’s River and Rowing Museum, on the passing of Tom Weil: We are deeply saddened by...
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Stan Pocock Rowing Center Dedication
Stan Pocock, 1923-2014 7 September 2024By Theo MittetBainbridge Island Rowing, Washington, had a celebration honoring Stan Pocock at their new rowing facility at Waterfront Park on 24 August. In...
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The Invisible Magician
Photo: Wikipedia 8 September 2024 By Philip Kuepper The whole scene appeareda bouquet bursting suddenlyinto bloom: rowers, in their shells;a mallard trailed by her chicks’a rustle of reeds being...
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Tom Weil: A Kind, Wonderful and Passionate Historian and Friend
Tom Weil, Yale ’70, at Gales Ferry for the 2017 Yale – Harvard Regatta with Peggy Little, whose late husband, Roger ‘Skok’ Little, Yale ’70, was the coxswain and captain of the 1970 Yale heavyweight...
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Citius, Altius, Fortius – Hibernia Communiter
M2x Semi-final A/B 2 c.11.25 a.m. local time on Tuesday 30 July 2024. Daire Lynch (Clonmel) and Philip Doyle (Belfast) of Ireland (lane 4) lead home U.S.A. (lane 2) and New Zealand (lane 3) to qualify...
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Tom E. Weil – The Great Benefactor of Rowing
Tom – always smiling. 12 September 2024 By Göran R Buckhorn HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn remembers his friend Tom Weil.The first time I met Thomas E. Weil – Tom – was at a Rowing History Forum at...
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The 2024 World Rowing Masters Regatta
The 2024 World Rowing Masters Regatta has started in Brandenburg an der Havel. 13 September 2024By Marie Barge, text and photoThe 2024 World Rowing Masters Regatta, held in Brandenburg an der Havel,...
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