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The Ferryman
22 December 2024 By Philip Kuepper ‘I ferry Holy Mento a shrine on an islandthat, to me, doesn’t exist,but what, for them, is all.They travel with the luggage of prayer,some of it quite heavy.And for...
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Merry Christmas!
24 December 2024The HTBS staff wish our writers and readers a Merry Christmas
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Merry Christmas from Germany
Photo: Ralf-Peter Stumme 25 December 2024 It has become a HTBS tradition that our friend Ralf-Peter Stumme in Germany writes a message to HTBS and its readers wishing us all a Merry Christmas and a...
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Richard Phelps: In The Chair
Richard Phelps pictured umpiring during Henley 2017. For the past five months he has been in charge of not just one race but of the whole regatta in his role as Chair of HRR’s ten-person Committee of...
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The Will of Water
29 December 2024By Philip Kuepper I think of rowerswhen I think of the will of water.Where rocks once lay a pathacross the creek,water has seen fitto redistribute them.Trout laugh, as it they...
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Penny Chuter: A Champion Coach Who Poled Punts, Shoved Skiffs and Sculled Shells
A young Penny in action. 30 December 2024By Chris Dodd Chris Dodd remembers the coach who changed the world of women’s rowing. When Penny Chuter began to mess about in a rowing dinghy as a toddler and...
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The Feast of the Seven Fishes
31 December 2024 By Philip Kuepper (for Michael Bell Meyer) I. Cod. The Cape.White-fleshed, whiteas a cloud. To catcha fish is to catcha cloud, reflected,in the never stillsky of ocean. II. Carp. It...
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HTBS in 2024
1 January 2025By Göran R BuckhornHTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn has the numbers for 2024.In 2023, HTBS had 256,170 page views and 121,731 visitors, which were down from the record year 2022 with 285,860...
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Rowers in the King’s New Year’s Honours List
2 January 2025By Göran R BuckhornBritish Rowing announced on their website that several Olympic and Paralympic Champions as well as a leading member of the rowing community received honours from King...
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Illuminating the Future
The illuminated and gilded frontispiece of new Brasenose College Boat Club Minute Book. 3 January 2025By William O’Chee In the age of social media, immediacy often threatens to supplant permanence in...
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All Is Flow
5 January 2025 By Philip Kuepper Oars up,in salute,to the year just past,the year just arrived,’24 into ’25,without a breakin the flow of time,without a break,though rowers have left wakein the flow,a...
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Tom Weil Goes to the Cricket
6 January 2025By William O’Chee Tom Weil – rower, veteran, historian, philanthropist and good friend – died in 2024 after a valiant battle with throat cancer. Those who knew him will always sing his...
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Olympic Rowing Medallists Who Passed in 2024
7 January 2025By Göran R BuckhornHTBS received an email from David Mahony, who is based in Adelaide and is an accredited rowing umpire with Rowing South Australia. David writes that “The Weekend...
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The Most Magnificent Rowing Book
The Bible of Rowing 8 January 2025By Bill Miller (Please double-click on the images to enlarge them.) There is a very rare rowing book that is a fantastic source of early rowing information, The...
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Oxford Brookes University Boat Club – A Sporting Miracle?
10 January 2025By Mark Blandford-Baker Mark Blandford-Baker reviews Peter Smith’s book Oxford Brookes University Boat Club – A Sporting Miracle? From a cowshed on the Thames to the top of the rowing...
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Re-visiting Florida
Benderson Family Finish Tower in Sarasota, Florida. Photo: © Marie Barge. 11 January 2025By Göran R BuckhornIn September last year, HTBS shared Australian filmmaker Michael Nicholson’s film from the...
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The Contested Rivalry
12 January 2025 By Philip Kuepper For an instant, from a distance,the rowing teams,moving up the river,appeared Vikings,with marauding on their minds.Closer up,they appeared Vikingscome to free usfrom...
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Olympic Oarsman Roger Lebranchu Dies Age 102
France’s oldest Olympian, rower Roger Lebranchu, has died at age 102. Photo from Fédération Française d’Aviron (FFA). 13 January 2025 By Göran R Buckhorn French Olympic oarsman Roger Lebranchu, who...
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Birgit Skarstein Hangs Up Her Sculls
Para-rowing star, Birgit Skarstein, has retired. 15 January 2025By Göran R BuckhornThe world most successful female rower in the PR1, Birgit Skarstein, of Norway, has retired, she announced on 1...
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