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Douglas ‘Ducker’ McLean
Douglas McLean, pictured in Vanity Fair in 1895. 19 August 2016 William O’Chee writes: The late 19th century produced a growing class of the superrich, whose lifestyles would not be unfamiliar to...
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HTBS’s Olympic Rowing Wrap-up
Genevra Stone, American silver medallist in the women’s single sculls. Photo: FISA/Worldrowing.com 20 August 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Tomorrow, the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio will end. Despite...
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What Was His
21 August 2016 Afterwards, the island was no longer one, a quarter of it having been split off by the storm, amazing them. They would now have to row, daily, to pasture, where stood the barn, and to...
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The People’s Ned Hanlan
Ned Hanlan, the hero of Toronto, one of Canada’s first sporting stars. 22 August 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: There are now a good amount of rowing websites around, but only one which features rowing...
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Ten Old Sculling Boats For Sale
The cockpit of one of the ten single sculls that are for sale on the British eBay. 23 August 2016 Author and rowing historian Clive Radley, of the famed boatbuilding family, pointed HTBS in the...
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The Battle on Great Hosmer Pond
Scullers on Great Hosmer Pond. Photo: visittheusa.com 24 August 2016 The other day, Göran R Buckhorn came across a copy of the independent Seven Days, a Vermont weekly newspaper. In the summer issue...
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Three Championships
U-23 Men’s Quadruple Sculls, Rotterdam. Photo: FISA/Worldrowing.org. 25 August 2016 Not one, not two, but three championships are being held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, between 21 and 28 August....
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Two-Hour Rowing Championships Video!
Photo: FISA/Worldrowing.com 26 August 2016 Here are 2 hours of rowing from the Senior World Championships, Under-23 World Championships and Junior World Championships in Rotterdam in the Netherlands....
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Out of the Ordinary
27 August 2016 The purple rowboat floated on the navy sea before an orange-red backdrop of sky. The cove cupped isolated into an outcropping of rock awakened by the rising light of the last day of...
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2016 Three Championships – Results
Senior Women, Lightweight, from left to right: Emma Fredh (Sweden), silver; Zoe McBride (New Zealand), gold; Katherine Sauks (Canada), bronze. Photo: FISA/Worldrowing.com 28 August 2016 The three...
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Newly Admitted Watermen: Able to Commit Fornication or Contract Matrimony
Hanging in Waterman’s Hall, a painting of Thomas Mann, ‘The Honest Waterman’ (1747-1822). Mann does not seem too happy – even though he is free of the restrictions traditionally placed upon those...
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Gene Wilder, 1933 – 2016
30 August 2016 Actor Gene Wilder died yesterday, at age 83. He might be best remembered for the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, where he played the mysterious candy tycoon in the 1971...
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The River Whisper
31 August 2016 A lattice of light lay on the water and woke to the wake of a boat passing, slowly, quietly out of the mouth of the river, like a word being spoken in a whisper. Philip Kuepper (20...
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Artist YO’s Rowing Prints
“Swinging Eight” 1 September 2016 Forced out of the house to run an errand in Downtown Mystic, Göran R Buckhorn had to fight his way through tents and stalls on Main Street in Mystic, as the 59th...
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Skiff Model
2 September 2016 Clive Radley writes: Many years ago I purchased a model of a skiff at a well-known shop by the river at Shepperton. I would like to know the approximate year when the actual skiff was...
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2016 Red Bull High Stakes Results
3 September 2016 Fourteen teams gathered for this year’s Red Bull High Stakes outside the Riverside Boat Club, Boston, on 27 August. As readers might remember from last year’s report of this different...
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Fun For All: The Great River Race
4 September 2016 Tim Koch has spent an afternoon on Hammersmith Bridge: The River Thames has seen many great boat races over the last three hundred years but, since 1988, one event has had a...
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HQ to Publish Biography of Jürgen Gröbler
Next year, HQ will publish a biography of the successful coach Jürgen Gröbler, More Power. The book is written by Olympic medallist Hugh Matheson and rowing historian and writer Christopher Dodd. Photo...
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2016 Paralympic Games in Rio
Birgit Skarstein, Norway, will compete at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio. Photo: FISA. 6 September 2016 Based on a press release from FISA/Worldrowing.com: The 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de...
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Puffin’s 50th Anniversary
6 September 2016 Last Saturday, 3 September, marked the 50th anniversary of the ocean rowing boat Puffin‘s disappearance somewhere on the Atlantic. On 3 September 1966, David Johnstone, who was making...
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