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The Name is…. Scully
20 January 2017 Göran R Buckhorn writes: The 2017 World Rowing Championships are going to be held between 23 September and 1 October at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota–Bradenton, Florida. Being an...
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‘A Great and Permanent Amusement’
Teddy Roosevelt, U.S. President 1901-1909, in rowing kit at Harvard c. 1877. As a child, Roosevelt suffered from asthma. His father recommended physical activity to counter this and Theodore developed...
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What Became the Boat
22 January 2017 The hull, encrusted with barnacles, I was of two minds about. Sea-life had worked the wood with design, worked whorls of majestic beauty, whelks of finest shell, and shapes from the...
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New Partner for Kafue River & Rowing Centre
23 January 2017 In a press release the other day, the World Rowing Federation (FISA), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the IHE Institute for Water Education announced their agreement to work...
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Annamarie Phelps Receives an Honorary Degree
Annamarie Phelps with her husband, Richard Phelps. Photo: Twitter. 24 January 2017 On Saturday, Annamarie Phelps CBE, chairman of British Rowing since 2013, was among seven distinguished figures to...
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Viewing of “Paris or the Bush” and Supper at Leander
25 January 2017 After a very successful film evening with supper in December 2016, when Leander Club in Henley-on-Thames arranged a viewing of the documentary film The Boys of ’36, the club will...
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Australia Day Honours List: Kim Brennan appointed Member of the Order of...
26 January 2017 Today, on Australia Day, which is the National Day of Australia, 20 of the 22 Rio gold medallists were honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM). Kim Brennan, who took...
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Comprehending the Incomprehensible: Holocaust Memorial Day
Young athletes from the Werder Jewish Rowing Club, near Potsdam, pictured in the 1930s. The Star of David that the oarsmen proudly display on their tops nowadays perhaps reminds us of the yellow star...
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Rowing on The Bay
A beautiful early silver and horn beaker inscribed ‘Trinity Hall Pair Oars. D Collins Bow. H W Schreiber Stroke’. The silver shield has the emblem of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and the year ‘1855’. It is...
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The Humming of Swans
29 January 2017 I turned the corner, and walked into an explosion of sunlight coming from the south. The river lay before me, a river of white marble, a bed of ice on which shone the January sun. At...
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Part I: The Extraordinary Mr Woodgate
The 1858 Radley 1st VIII (Walter Woodgate second from the left at the back). 30 January 2017 William O’Chee writes: If asked to nominate the greatest oarsmen of the 19th century, most would probably...
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Part II: The Extraordinary Mr Woodgate
The triumphant if controversial 1865 Head of the River Eight. Standing from left: J. Rickaby, W.B. Woodgate, A. Shepherd, A.J. Richards, S.R. Coxe, R.F. Rumsey. Seated from left: P.A. Latham, C....
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Part III: The Extraordinary Mr Woodgate
The 1867 Brasenose Head of the River Eight. Woodgate is seated on the right contemplating the trophy. 1 February 2017 Here is the third and final part of William O’Chee’s article about the great Oxford...
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Putney and Fulham Embrace ‘Hadaway Harry’
“Hadaway Harry” banner at London Rowing Club. The play will run on 17 and 18 February at the Putney club. 2 February 2017 As HTBS reported on 16 January, Ed Waugh’s play Hadaway Harry about the...
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The Oarsman Who Gave The Film Star Her Name
1923: Steve Fairbairn (on the left) and Herbert L. Holman. The top of the Grand Challenge Cup trophy can be seen at the bottom of the image. Courtesy of Thames RC. 3 February 2017 Göran R Buckhorn...
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2017: FISA Celebrates its 125th Anniversary
4 February 2017 The first FISA logo. The World Rowing Federation, FISA, is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. FISA (Federation Internationale des Societies d’Aviron) was the first...
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Thinking of Yorick
5 February 2017 Allow me this jest, this “excellent fancy” of Yorick in a scull rowing through Hamlet’s apostrophizing him, as his way of responding to the prince’s melancholy, scull rowing the sweet...
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Politically Incorrect
In 1776, Britain’s American colonies decided that they did not want to be ruled by George III, a man with a ridiculous hairstyle who went mad. Had they not been so hasty, today their Head of State...
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Proposals for Olympic Rowing Boat Classes Examined
Jean-Christophe Rolland. 7 February 2017 In a press release FISA writes: Rowing federations from around the world will meet next week at the World Rowing Federation’s Extraordinary Congress to review...
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1896 Olympic Rowing – More Questions than Answers
Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, at the oars on Lake Geneva, Switzerland. 8 February 2017 Greg Denieffe writes: Back in November 2016, in a Crewcial Collectables column called...
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