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Bumps Diary Part 3: First Week of Training
Even in a busy week we make time to celebrate birthdays, because cake is important. This one is for James, who turned 21 this week. Photo: CL, with an iPhone 6 and VSCO. 26 April 2016 Courtney Landers...
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The Loom of April
27 April 2016 So thick the fog and mist this morning, I cannot see the steeple rising a block away. April looms the air with mystery, living, as we do, next the ocean in spring. Rowers would appear...
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The Celestial Rower
28 April 2016 Lightning bolted! low across the horizon, like a scull rowed, razor-fast, by an unseen force. Philip Kuepper (26 March 2016) Tagged: Philip Kuepper, Rowing Poetry
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Will on Rowing – Not so Much…, or He said ‘Poop’ Twice!
29 April 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Now and then, an article on HTBS leads to another one by the same author or by someone else as a response, comment or just a continuance to the first piece. As I...
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The Whisper Vesper
30 April 2016 The blades of the oars caught the last of the day’s light as the rowers carried them upright from the river to the boathouse. South, a curlew called over the rushes, called dusk to darken...
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“The Boys of ’36” – Trailer
1 May 2016 As HTBS reported on 14 April, The Boys of ’36, a one-hour documentary inspired by Daniel James Brown’s critically acclaimed book The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for...
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Happiness is Hamlet
“Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet”, one of Greg Denieffe’s old beer mats [American English: coasters], probably from 1979.2 May 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: After my piece about rowing in William...
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Bumps Diary Part 4: Races and Rivalries
City Sprints starts just downriver from Pembroke’s boathouse and the footbridge nearby, creating perfect viewing conditions. Photo: CL, with an iPhone 6 and VSCO. 3 May 2016 Courtney Landers Here...
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Smoke on the Water
An advertisement from 1937, a time when many people smoked – and knew what the Diamond Sculls were. 4 May 2016 Tim Koch lights up. In his recent piece on the connection between ‘Hamlet’ cigars and...
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The Nominees for the 2016 Thomas Keller Medal
5 May 2016 Later this month, on 20 May, it will be announced who is this year’s winner of the Thomas Keller Medal, the most prestigious medal awarded in rowing. The winner, who has been selected by the...
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Carrying a Torch for the Olympics
Sculler Katerina Nikolaidou of Greece. Picture: World Rowing. 6 May 2016 Tim Koch counts down to Rio. 27 April marked 100 days until the start of the Olympic Regatta in Rio. It was also the day that...
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Survival of the Fattest
Dogs like to be around boats. Photo: Tim Koch. 7 May 2016 Chris Dodd writes about man’s best friend. It used to be the case – maybe it still is – that no coach’s launch was complete without a Labrador...
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The Transformation
8 May 2016 The drizzle felt like felt. It furred his body, from his blond hair to his sneakered feet. It furred his scull, his oars. It made slippery his grip on them, which caused him hesitate to...
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Sweden’s Most Devoted Sculler, who was an Olympic Torchbearer
The 1952 Olympic Torch on its way in to Malmö, rowed by a crew from the town’s local rowing club, Malmö RK. 9 May 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: After reading Tim Koch’s recent article about the Olympic...
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Bumps Diary Part 5: The Boathouse
The south wall of the women’s room, which features the names of all previous first boat crews for May Bumps. Photo: CL, with an iPhone 6 and VSCO. 10 May 2016 Courtney Landers Here follows Courtney...
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Homer of Vesta RC
Homer and Peter S. at Scullers Head. 11 May 2016 Chris Dodd’s article about man’s best friend, “Survival of the Fattest”, on 7 May prompted Peter Simpson of Vesta Rowing Club to send in a comment with...
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A Chat with HTBS Poet Philip Kuepper
Philip Kuepper outside Bank Square Books, where he is having a signing of his debut book, “A Sea To Row By – Poems”, on Saturday, 14 May. 12 May 2016 HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn had a nice chat with...
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Racing in Ireland in the mid-1940s: Fit Young Men
The 1946 Wylie Cup on River Lagan, Belfast. Henry Law’s father, Kenneth Fraser Law, is rowing in 4-seat in the Trinity boat. Greg Denieffe was able to provide all the names in this crew: Cox D.G.H....
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The Orb, in Raiment Splendor, Turns
14 May 2016 The orb, in raiment splendor, turns east to west and back again, the raiment sun clothing it in light, diamonding each nation in turn. It is this sun that clothes the rowers oaring the...
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More Dogs and Boats
Sam of Craftsbury Sculling Center. 15 May 2016 Readers of HTBS keep responding to Chris Dodd’s request from 7 May in “Survival of the Fattest” that coaches (any HTBS reader is actually fine, too)...
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