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The 2016 Boat Races on HTBS
6 April 2016 Never before has HTBS had so many articles and posts published about the Boat Races on its website as we had for this year’s races. In case you missed any of the articles, below you will...
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Men’s Vanity, or A Swedish Rowing Club Decks Out Its Members
The Trinity Hall crew who won the 1897 Head of the River in their boating jackets. From Göran R Buckhorn’s book A Yank at Cambridge – B.H. Howell: The Forgotten Champion. (Photo courtesy of the Master...
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The Water of Light
8 April 2016 This is the season in which the light is anxious to rise, the blades of oars anxious to slap the water. I grow tired with the confines of the tomb of winter, the light, with the confines...
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Malmö RK and all its Colours
Art work by Mrs B. 9 April 2016 Louis Petrin, HTBS contributor Down Under, was quick to turn around a piece about HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn’s article about his Swedish rowing club’s boating jacket,...
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Rowing in Parallel
10 April 2016 A puddle of little ducks, clustered in the rushes, bobbed to and fro on the wake from the boat rowed past, south, under the bridge, and out of sight. The water settled. Still, the...
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The Veterans’ Boat Race 2016: Win, Lose and Draw?
The 2016 Oxford-Cambridge Veterans’ Boat Race shortly off the start. 11 March 2016 Some things improve with age and Tim Koch hopes that this applies to his report on the Oxford and Cambridge Veterans’...
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Bumps Diary Part 1: PCBC Does WEHoRR
Courtney Landers, who is rowing for Pembroke College BC, will share her and her crew mates journey towards May Bumps with the HTBS readers for some Tuesdays onwards. Photo: Sue Aylward. 12 April 2016...
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Athens 1896: The First Olympic Rowing Medallists?
Olympic Champions 1896? Berthold Küttner (left), born in Stettin and who later worked as engineer in Berlin, with his double sculls partner Adolf Jäger. Photo: Journal of Olympic History. 13 April 2016...
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Documentary “The Boys of ’36” to Premiere in August
On Tuesday, it was announced that the documentary “The Boys of ’36”, which is based on Daniel James Brown’s book “The Boys in the Boat”, will premiere on 2 August on the American PBS Channel. 14 April...
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The Other Boat Races
Author Malcolm Knight in his umpire’s role. 15 April 2016 To complete the information overload about this year’s Boat Races, here is a report from our old friend, Malcolm Knight. The pictures were...
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What’s not to lycra?
A stylish combination of club blazer and rowing kit from 1900. 16 April 2016 Tim Koch writes: Hear The Boat Sing editor, Göran R Buckhorn, recently posted a piece on the ‘regatta’ or ‘boating’ blazer...
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An Excuse to Row
17 April 2016 A red-orange sun set beyond the winter woods, shredding its light on the bare branches, shredded light hanging there in the after-light, until it slowly faded off the branches. Then the...
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Women’s Rowing History Ph.D.
2012 London Olympic Regatta, at Dorney Lake. Eton Rowing Centre, Berkshire. Final Women’s Double Scull, GBR W2X with Bow Anna Watkins (right) and Katherine Grainger. Photo: Peter Spurrier/Intersport...
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Bumps Diary Part 2: The Burn, the Blisters and the Blazers
Neria Aylward, Canadian native and second year social sciences student, Pembroke College BC W1’s four-seat for Lent Bumps, tries on a blazer of aspirational design. Photo: CL, with an iPhone 6 and...
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From Within Outward
20 April 2016 I toy with the word scull. I make it the mind, tangible. I make the rower a thought, embodied, in the scull, who is thinking their row, from start to finish, the mental underpinning of...
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Happy Birthday Ma’am as in ham*
At the helm for 64 years. The then Princess Elizabeth steers a rowing boat as a member of the Sea Rangers in 1944. 21 April 2016 Tim Koch is after an OBE. Today is the 90th birthday of Elizabeth II,...
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Paris or the Bush Premier Sold Out!
22 April 2016 Greg Denieffe writes: Tickets to the World Premiere of Paris or the Bush, the documentary based on the story of the Murray Bridge Cods, to be screened on Saturday 23 April (Anzac long...
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Happy Birthday Will (as in Hamlet)
The famous engraving of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout, done for the First Folio seven years after the playwright’s death but probably from a now lost authentic portrait. 23 April 2016 Tim Koch goes...
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A Shadow of Cloud on the Stream*
William Evelyn Wylie 24 April 2016 One-hundred years ago today, the Easter Rising began in Ireland. It set in motion a series of events that led to the formation of the Irish Free State. Greg Denieffe...
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The Regatta
25 April 2016 So perfect the scene I could only laugh, at the perfection. And, then, mid-laugh, I stopped as melancholia entered with the thought the perfection was entirely isolated, and could not...
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