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And Then There Were Eighteen…
Chimney sweeps (get it)? The men’s and women’s Blue Boat crews outside the former Battersea Power Station prior to the formal 2025 crew announcement. Picture: The Boat Race Company. 29 March 2025By...
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Clothed in Strength
30 March 2025 By Philip Kuepper The rowers shiveredduring the first heat of spring.The river turneda cold face to them.Glasslike, gray,dark pewter, in fact,it reflected nothing,certainly not their...
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3M to Fund USRowing’s Chief High Performance Officer
Andy and Linda McLane have donated $3M to fund and name USRowing’s Chief High Performance Officer position, which is currently held by Josy Verdonkschot (pictured). 31 March 2025 Josy Verdonkschot’s...
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Oxford’s Final Fixtures
The Oxford Men’s Blue Boat’s Will O’Connell (2), Felix Rawlinson (3) and James Doran (4) get their legs down in a piece against London Rowing Club during the Oxford Media Fixtures held on 28 March,...
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Olympian Kiwi Fiona Bourke Named USRowing High Performance Sculling Coach
Fiona Bourke is USRowing High Performance Sculling Coach. Photo: Rowing NZ 2 April 2025USRowing announces in a press release that Fiona Bourke of New Zealand is the new High Performance Sculling...
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Choosing The 2032 Olympic Rowing Venue: What A Crock
The 2032 Olympics will be hosted by Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia. The Queensland government wants the Fitzroy River in Rockhampton to host the rowing. The press have fixated on the fact...
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The Boat Race: A Centennial And A Decennial
A title from a silent cinema newsreel film of the 1925 Boat Race, “The Boat Race that Wasn’t”. 4 April 2025By Tim Koch Tim Koch marks time. Our obsession with anniversaries is a strange one. Why...
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The Boat Race: Doin’ It For Nuffin
Horny Handed Son of Toil: Go to see the (Oxford-Cambridge boat) race? — Not if I know it! I seed ’em once a workin’ away extra ’ard, and as I says, depend on it there’s piece work there; but wen I...
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Peace River, Mystic I
6 April 2025 By Philip Kuepper Featherlight ripples fishscale the river,in the serene March morning,as the tide is beingpulled out slowlyby the hands of the moon.How like a net the river,having caught...
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Peace River, Mystic II
6 April 2025 By Philip KuepperI Boats shoulder their ways, slowly,up the river,then shrug into slips, with a sigh,and go still,river traffic blessedly slowin contrast to the maniacalspeed on...
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Tideway Week: The Lull Before The Storm
Two images of Oxford in training during Tideway Week, 1930 and 2018. Active public interest was rather more manifest before the 1939-45 War. 7 April 2025By Tim Koch Tim Koch watches crews padding...
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Old Head On Young Shoulders
Returning and racing crews at Putney during the 2021 Fours Head. 9 April 2025By Tim Koch Tim Koch notes an exciting new development. Good news appeared on fourshead.org on 8 April. The Committee of...
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Going Spare…
The Cambridge Men’s Lightweight spares, Alex Tocher (left) and Peter Crossley (right), after winning their “Spare Pairs” race against their Oxford counterparts on the Wednesday of Tideway Week. 10...
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Paddling At Putney
Rob Baker, the CUBC Men’s Chief Coach, pictured busy at work on Wednesday. Perhaps he is hoping for a Cambridge clean sweep on Boat Race Day as well? 11 April 2025By Tim Koch and Mel Brown Tideway...
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Hadaway Harry: Lessons of History, Barriers to Access and the Future of...
If you would like to understand why your son, daughter, friend or your family member rows, go and see Ed Waugh’s Hadaway Harry. Pictured Jamie Brown as Harry Clasper in Hadaway Harry. Photo credit:...
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Tim Koch: I’m Not Behind The Times
Eight of the nine members of Oxford’s 1897 Boat Race Crew were Old Etonians. The Times newspaper (sometimes referred to by non-Britons as The London Times or The Times of London) has an idea that...
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Boat Race Day 2025 Part I: Putney
15 April 2025By Mel Brown and Tim Koch Tim Koch and Mel Brown go P to M. HTBS Types may be aware that some student boat races were run between Putney and Mortlake on Sunday, 13 April and it is likely...
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Boat Race Day 2025 Part II: P to M
Sadly for the Dark Blues on Boat Race Day, the only time that an Oxford boat was ahead of one from Cambridge was when the OUBC launch Bosporus got in front of the CUBC launch, Amaryllis. Picture:...
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Boat Race Day 2025 Part III: Mortlake
True love. It looks like the Cambridge men’s President, veteran of four Boat Races and “7” man in their winning 2025 Blue Boat, Luca Ferraro, has found a trophy wife. 17 April 2025By Mel Brown and Tim...
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Restarting The Boat Races
An advertisement from the 1956 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Programme. The cheapest television set was then 70 Guineas (under £72), but the average industrial worker of the time earned under £11 a week....
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