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Reminder: Viewing of “The Boys of ‘36” and Supper at Leander
A reminder from 12 November 2016 about a great event on 2 December. 25 November 2016 Leander Club in Henley-on-Thames is arranging a viewing of the documentary film The Boys of ’36 on Friday, 2...
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2016 GB Rowing Team Award Dinner
At the GB Rowing Team Award dinner, the women’s eight, Olympic silver medallists at Rio, was celebrated. Annamarie Phelphs, chairwomen of British Rowing, (sixth woman from the left) was stand-in for...
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Colleen Carroll Wins the Kafue Photo Competition
27 November 2016 On 16 October, HTBS reported on a photo competition that FISA announced on its website, www.worldrowing.com. The competition was to support the Kafue River and Rowing Centre in Zambia....
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Get Your Signed Copies of HTBS Books
28 November 2016 It is time for a new book signing for HTBS poet Philip Kuepper on Saturday, 3 December. This time he is joined by HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn: HTBS poet Philip Kuepper has done a few...
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Morris Morris: So Good They Named Him Twice – Part I: The Remarkable Years,...
Morris Keele Morris (1899 – 1984), in practice for the 1925 Henley Royal Regatta. 29 November 2016 Tim Koch hopes to restore the memory of a remarkable but forgotten sculler: In 1923, most people who...
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Morris Morris: So Good They Named Him Twice – Part II: Promise Unfulfilled,...
Geoff Morris at his marriage to Peggy Emett in February 1926. 30 November 2016 Here, Tim Koch continues the story of the short but extraordinary rowing career of Geoff Morris. In Part I, Tim looked at...
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Morris Morris: So Good They Named Him Twice – Part III: Life before and after...
Geoff Morris, who, as Morris K. Morris, won the 1923 Diamond Sculls at Henley, less than 18 months after taking up the sport. 1 December 2016 In this final part, Tim Koch looks at Geoff Morris’ life...
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Jürgen Gröbler Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Coach Jürgen Gröbler. Photo: British Rowing. 2 December 2016 The other day, Coach Jürgen Gröbler was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to him by Anne, Princess Royal at...
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The Sea of Poetry
3 December 2016 Why wasn’t I informed poetry is just as often not about lovely word combinations, that behind them can lie as much horror as beauty. I knew Pegasus was the offspring of Poseidon. So...
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2016 World Rowing Award Winners
Roger Barrow, of South Africa, is the recipient of FISA’s 2016 World Rowing Coach of the Year Award. Photo: Twitter. 4 December 2016 ‘Rio 2016 Olympic Champions featured strongly amongst the winners of...
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323 – and Counting…
5 December 2016 Dear HTBS Readers, So far, we here at HTBS have posted 323 articles this year. Since 1 April (not a joke!), we have posted an article every day – except three – and during 13 of those...
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Oxford’s Trial By Tideway: The Men’s Race
Choose your weapons…… 6 December 2016 Chris Dodd and Tim Koch have been watching Oxford’s attempts to find two crews with ‘The X Factor’. Tim writes: For most of the rowing media, the first indication...
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Oxford’s Trial By Tideway: The Women’s Race
The trial boat “Heather” hits rough water at Barnes Bridge. 7 December 2016 Tim Koch writes: Yesterday, HTBS reported on the 2016 Trial Eights Race by the Oxford men, when the last 18 members of the...
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RowingChat with Guin Batten
8 December 2016 Rowperfect is holding yet another RowingChat, now on 11 December between 8 and 9 p.m. (GMT) with celebrated rower Guin Batten. In an invitation Rowpefect writes: The limits of sport and...
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Bob Dylan: Tideway 61 Revisited
Ill: N. Elmehed. © Nobel Media 2016. 9 December 2016 Greg Denieffe writes (not so seriously): On the 13 October 2016, the Swedish Academy announced that they had granted the Nobel Prize in Literature...
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Peter Willis: Boatman and Boat Builder to King’s, 1934 -2016
Peter Willis 1934 – 2016. 10 December 2016 Michael Dover writes: Peter Willis, boatman to the King’s Canterbury Boat Club for 42 years from 1957 to 1999, died on 27 October at the age of 81. Born in...
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Row Ho Ho
A clever design on one of the Christmas cards available from ‘Rock the Boat’. 11 December 2016 Tim Koch has been writing his Christmas list: It is said that it is better to give than to receive,...
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The First Cup for Olympic Rowing?
The holy grail of Olympic rowing? 12 December 2016 Louis Petrin of Drummoyne Rowing Club, Australia, writes: There was an auction held in Melbourne on Thursday 8 December, The Martin Sheppard...
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What I Captained
13 December 20126 The boat, almost, did not make it to shore, the bow, nosed in mud, the stern, half-sunk, the scraping I’d heard, and felt, a miniature iceberg of a rock taking a bite out of my...
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Reindeer Regatta held at the Olympic Rowing Course in Penrith, Sydney
The winners of last year’s dress up! Newcastle Grammar Schoolgirls Quad.Photo: Dominic Grimm, Sydney Rowing Club. 14 December 2016 Louis Petrin, of Drummoyne Rowing Club from Downunder, writes: As...
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