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A Royal Introduction to Rowing
At the former Royal Albert Docks in east London, 80 youngsters recently enjoyed their first taste of rowing. 17 October 2016 Tim Koch writes: HTBS contributor Malcolm Knight is one of those lucky...
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RowingChat with Yale Coach Steve Gladstone
18 October 2016 Steve Gladstone Our friends at Rowperfect are going to host an interesting RowingChat with Yale coach Steve Gladstone on 26 October – an event not to be missed! Gladstone is regarded as...
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Regatta Programmes and HTBS’s Mystery Sculler
19 October 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Tim Koch’s article about the HTBS’s ‘mystery sculler’ on 12 October caught the eyes of two avid readers of this website, Lionel Baily and Kieran Kerr. Lionel...
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HTBS’s ‘Mystery Sculler’ – Take 3
20 October 2016 After reading Tim Koch’s post on HTBS’s ‘mystery sculler’ and yesterday’s post on the same subject, Raoul Wertz, of Marin Rowing Association, California, writes: Regarding the origins...
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The 2016 Wingfields: Races of Champions
A medal with a bar engraved with the year and attached to the ribbon is given to first time winners of the Wingfield Sculls and the Women’s Wingfields. Appropriately dated bars are added for any...
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The Railing
22 October 2016 Apart from the blowing foam edging the waves creaming the beach, there was only nothing to grab hold of. Philip Kuepper (9 October 2016) Tagged: Philip Kuepper, Poetry
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What the Sea Taught Me
23 October 2016 The glass grey sea appeared to disappear long before reaching the horizon, the sky having dropped a curtain of gauze not far off shore. I felt closeted on the planet with the sky that...
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Results 2016 World Rowing Coastal Championships
Photo: FISA. Igor Meijer. 24 October 2016 ‘Saturday was full of finals at the 2016 World Rowing Coastal Championships in Monaco,’ Worldrowing.com writes on its website. ‘The wind died down over night...
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2016 HOCR Results
25 October 2016 Kjertil Borch. Photo: Norges Roforbund. The 52nd annual Head of the Charles Regatta ended on Sunday. As usual, some of the world’s elite female and male rowers had gathered to battle on...
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A New Rowing Museum?
The Kelly family house in East Falls, Philadelphia was recently purchased by Prince Albert of Monaco. The prince’s plan is to turn his mother’s former home into a museum. The house was built in 1929 by...
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River Lea Developments over the Years
Photo: Wikipedia.org 26 October 2016 Clive Radley writes: The following text is drawn predominantly from an Edmonton Hundred Historical Society Occasional Paper New Series No. 36 by G. J. L. Burney and...
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Windy University Boat Races in Sydney
27 October 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: The annual Boat Races between Sydney and Melbourne Universities, for both men and women, were held on a blustery 4.3 km-long course in Sydney’s Darling Harbour...
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New Book: Six Minutes in Berlin
28 October 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Yesterday, a new rowing book landed on my desk, Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcasting Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics by Michael J. Socolow, who...
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The Little Boat That Could
29 October 2016 The Straits tossed the gay boat about on its wind-torn current, the gay boat like a laughing child at play on the waves, making it to shore, safely, its rosy painted sides like cheeks...
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Damir Martin and Kim Brennan take The Gold Cup
Kim Brennan won 2016 The Gold Cup. Photo: The Gold Cup website. 30 October 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Rowing history was written yesterday on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. Eight of the...
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Richmond-upon-Thames, Part I: A Reminder of the Golden Age of Boating
A 1950s postcard of Richmond, Surrey, which rightly gives prominence to the town’s riverside setting. The ‘View of the Thames’ from Richmond Hill illustrated in the centre is possibly unique in that it...
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Richmond-upon-Thames, Part II: 64 years with Bill Colley
Bill Colley – building wooden racing boats since 1952. 1 November 2016 Tim Koch writes: In Part I of my report from Richmond-upon-Thames, I put forward the idea that Richmond was home to more than one...
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The Australian Boat Race
The first boat race between Sydney University BC and Melbourne University BC on the Yarra in 1870. 2 November 2016 Louis Petrin writes: The first intervarsity boat race in the world was between Oxford...
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Women’s Four
3 November 2016 Across the mercurial river I saw a women’s four row north, a practice row, followed by their coach’s boat, coach acting as cox through a megaphone. Like an arrow tore the shell through...
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Rowing’s Marvellous Mo Bros
Gaston Delaplane, a French rower at the (unofficial) 1906 Olympic Games with his Gold Medal winning moustache. 4 November 2016 Tim Koch last grew a mo in 1987: As HTBS has often previously posted,...
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