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The 2016 Eights Week at Oxford, Part I: People and Places
A ‘bump’ is made. 5 June 2016 Tim Koch went up to Oxford (for a day): Existing in some form since 1096, Oxford University is the oldest such institution in the English-speaking world. Thus, it is...
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The 2016 Eights Week at Oxford, Part II: Aquatics and Ecstatics
The view from the Brasenose/Exeter boathouse showing the end of Men’s Division I where Hertford College lead St Catherine’s College. The latter finished at the top of Division II every day. Each time a...
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Bumps Diary Part 9: One More Day
Our 4-seat Maggie after one of our bumps in Lents last term. 7 June 2016 Courtney Landers Here follows Courtney Landers’s ninth part of her diary about how she and her team mates in Pembroke College...
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HTBS Poet Philip Kuepper’s Second Book Signing
Mystic Seaport Bookstore has a wonderful collection of maritime books. On the left is Bookstore Manager Larry Kelly. 8 June 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes that it is time for a new book signing for HTBS...
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The Play of Light
9 June 2016 As the sun set fire to the bay, the sculler through it was thrown into shadow, a figure prophesying the night to come, the chorus of woods watching sang of; and sang of the blazing light...
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Nautical Celebration of Belem’s 120th Anniversary
10 June 2016 Hélène Rémond writes: Initiated by Nantes Métropole, the Débord de Loire Festival is a new nautical and cultural event. The festival was launched on Saturday, 4 June, in Nantes, a city...
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Philip Kuepper Signing His Book Today
Poet Philip Kuepper signing his A Sea To Row By – Poem on Saturday at Mystic Seaport Bookstore. Philip here with Bookstore Manager Larry Kelly. 11 June 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: HTBS own poet,...
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As Plovers Go
12 June 2016 When morning light touched the muscular rocks they appeared to flex, playfully, showing off their handsome cut. The trees swooned in the breeze. Ravens laughed (at the neurotic spectacle...
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Drinking, Writing, Editing, Hemingway, Drinking…*
Writing about Hemingway, the Hemingway way. 13 June 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: HTBS has very few rules on writing, and as the editor of the website, I believe in ‘light’ editing, meaning not...
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Bumps Diary Part 10: May Bumps – Excitement and Drama
Pembroke W1 racing on the Cam at May Bumps. Photo: Matevz Poljanc. 14 June 2016 Courtney Landers Here follows Courtney Landers’s tenth part of her diary about how she and her team mates in Pembroke...
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The Rower and the Raven
15 June 2016 At the moment, I would rather imagine the scene, than be in the actual scene. The sun deceives. The air it shoots through, with brilliance, is cold. And being at the river would prove even...
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Rowing with the Harlot of Jerusalem (and other friends)
The bar and clubroom of the Hammersmith, West London based Kensington Rowing Club in the late 1950s. The subject of this article, Henri Benardout, is at the back, wearing glasses. Also mentioned is...
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In Passing
Picture: wikia.com 19 June 2016 The air, this morning, is a woven veil of light sparrows fly through, without tearing; a veil oars draw their blades against, without tearing; a veil that catches on the...
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A Crowded Henley
The ‘Henley Crush’. 20 June 2016 Tim Koch has been cutting and pasting. Henley Royal Regatta has put out the following press release. I could change a few words and claim it as my own but I like to...
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Bumps Diary Part 11: How the Bumps Went Down
Fran rowing home in two-seat the day we won our Blades last term. Look at those braids. Photo credit: Giorgio Divitini, a student photographer from Churchill College. 21 June 2016 Courtney Landers Here...
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‘In’ or ‘Out’?
Cartoonist ‘Kak”s take on Brexit in the French newspaper L’Opinion which has increased HTBS’s readership by the hundreds since the cartoon was first published in late February. Courtesy of ‘Kak’. 22...
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The 2016 Henley Women’s Regatta, Part I: Sunday Morning Semi-Finals
Lea RC (nearest the camera) and Wallingford RC battle it out in a semi-final of Club Fours. Wallingford won by 2 1/2 lengths. 23 June 2016 Tim Koch has been to Henley and is here reporting from this...
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The 2016 Henley Women’s Regatta, Part II: Faces of Victory and Defeat
Elite Lightweight Double Sculls: Wallingford beat Exeter University/Edinburgh University by 3/4 length. 24 June 2016 The afternoon of Sunday, 19 June saw the finals of the 2016 Henley Women’s Regatta....
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2016 WoodenBoat Show: From a Polynesian Canoe to Bogart’s Boat
The article writer’s favourite boat at the 2016 WoodenBoat Show at Mystic Seaport is film star Humphrey Bogart’s old boat, Santana. Here a close-up on her steering wheel. 25 June 2016 Celebrating 25...
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In Transubstantiation
26 June 2016 Half-asleep in the summer afternoon, half in dream, was what wakened me real or imaginary?, a sculler gliding quietly beneath the bridge, emerging on the other side a great blue heron...
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