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Leander Library Rowing Book Talks
Irene Hewlett and Greg Searle at Leander Club. 14 September 2024By Göran R BuckhornLeander Club continues with the popular Library Rowing Book Talks where authors come to talk about their rowing...
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Song for Tom
15 September 2024 By Philip Kuepper Cancer arrived, unannounced,in the midst of life.One might have hoped a writer’swords would have stalled it,stayed it, from coming closer.Yet, the rushof living...
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George Pocock: Local Boy Made Good
George Yeomans Pocock (1891 – 1976) was the leading designer and builder of racing boats in the mid-20th century. Although British born, from the 1920s to the 1960s, his wooden boats dominated the...
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New Novel: News Fit To Print – Sleuthing and Sliding
17 September 2024 Chris Dodd. Photo: Tim Koch Rowing historian and HTBS writer Chris Dodd had an idea for a novel while researching his history of the Boat Race, published in 1984. Forty years of...
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Film “Liberty, equality, fraternity” – Australian Olympic Rowers 2024 and in...
18 September 2024By Göran R BuckhornAustralian filmmaker Michael Nicholson, of Melbourne University Boat Club (MUBC), is a household name for HTBS’s readers as he has shared some of his rowing films...
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Nominate for the 2024 World Rowing Awards
19 September 2024In a press release, World Rowing asks for nominees for the organisation’s nine awards.The World Rowing Awards are an annual celebration of the best in international rowing. They have...
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HOSR Story Hour: “Shore Her Up” – The Story of Philadelphia Girls’ Rowing Club
Women at the Philadelphia Girls’ Rowing Club, in 1941, three years after the club was formed. 20 September 2024 Time to sign up for the last of the HOSR Committee 50 Story Hour for the year.At the...
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Class of 2024 National Rowing Hall of Fame® Induction Ceremony
21 September 2024In a press release, the National Rowing Foundation (NRF) has announced the Class of 2024 National Rowing Hall of Fame® inductees. The ceremony will be held at the NRF US Team Reunion...
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The Architecture of A Late Summer Afternoon
22 September 2024 By Philip Kuepper Blue shimmer off the baywove waveson the faces of the weathered greyhouses. In the yardsplayed youths with their shirts off,gleeful in the breeze, pitching a...
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The Amazon Beats The Thames
London’s Great River Race (GRR) – a scene at Lambeth Bridge. Picture: Great River Race Trust. 23 September 2024By Tim Koch Tim Koch watches a Great Race on a Great River. A press release from the...
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Standing on Shoulders of Fate…
The cover of Chris Dodd’s book about the GB Olympic eight of 1976. 29 September 2024By Chris Dodd Patrick Sweeney, the cox of the British eight from 1973 to 1976, sent an invitation to his crew to...
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Medalling In The Thames
After 150 plus years, the Thames recently gave up a lost souvenir medallion sold at the 1872 Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race. Pictures of the medallion’s head and tail: Tom Chivers. 1 October 2024By Tim...
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Dan Williamson is New Yale Assistant Coach
Dan Williamson is the new assistant coach at Yale. 4 October 2024By Göran R BuckhornYale’s Craig W. Johnson ’68 Head Coach of Heavyweight Crew, Mike Gennaro, has announced that Dan Williamson ’23 will...
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Fresh Off the Boat
6 October 2024 By Philip Kuepper Again, today, my creelis overflowing with the fishof poems that have caught themselves,and found in my creel a home.There swims the Sacred Salmon,the Salmon that...
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Pocock Plaquery Concluded
Sir Matthew Pinsent CBE (l) and James Marshall, Captain of Eton Excelsior RC, at the unveiling of the George Pocock Plaque in September. Photo credit: Chris Morrell MBE 8 October 2024By Thomas Wigley...
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The McNabbs Donate $1M to the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Teams
Donor Bill McNabb (r) with 2024 Olympic champion Justin Best. Photo: USRowing 9 October 2024By Göran R BuckhornThe USRowing Golden Oars Gala in September was a great success. Katie and Bill McNabb...
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Weil’s Within Wheels: A Collector Extraordinaire
Tom Weil in the Trophy Room of Yale’s Gilder Boathouse. 10 October 2024By Chris Dodd News Fit To Print, my new book, is set amongst journalists during the American Civil War and dedicated to a Bill...
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I Thought A Boat
13 October 2024 By Philip Kuepper At the end of the narrow tanpath the sea spreadto the horizon, then curvedfrom sight. The furtherI walked the path the furtherthe horizon receded,so that even the...
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Sandy Irvine: Climbing The Third Pole
Last month, a little over one hundred years after George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine died on Mount Everest in June 1924, part of Irvine’s remains, including his named sock, were...
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Goodbye Bert
G.E. Green (1930 – 2024) pictured during his time as the boatman to the National Westminster Bank Rowing Club in Putney. Picture: British Rowing. 18 October 2024By Tim Koch Tim Koch on the passing of...
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