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London 3 June 2017
4 June 2017 #WeAreNotAfraid Tagged: #WeAreNotAfraid, Non-rowing related
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The Met: Open To The World Since 1866
Aquatic cherubs perch on the Metropolitan Amateur Regatta’s ‘Metropolitan Challenge Cup’ and observe the goings-on at this year’s regatta. 5 June 2017 Tim Koch has spent a day at ‘The Met’: ‘The Met’...
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Gun Boats
The (British) Army Rowing Club’s entry for the Visitors’ at Henley in 2007. Picture: The Tideway Slug. 6 June 2017 Tim Koch is on parade again: In my recent ‘nothing to do with rowing’ piece on...
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The Rowing Flemings – Part I: In His Majesty’s Service
The author Ian Fleming, who did not row at Eton. 7 June 2017 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Looking back at the articles published on HTBS in May, there is an unsuspected pattern of James Bond-related...
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Bite the Ballot
‘Nur die Allerdümmsten Kälber Wählen ihre Schlächter Selber’ is a German idiom meaning ‘Only The Very Stupidest Calves Elect Their Slaughterers Themselves’. The British version would be ‘Like turkeys...
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The Rowing Flemings – Part II: The Man with the Golden Oar
Leander’s Olympic champions at Stockholm, from the stern: coxswain Henry Wells, stroke Philip Fleming (Ian Fleming’s uncle), 7 Alister Graham Kirby, 6 Arthur Stanley Garton, 5 James Angus Gillan, 4...
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Yale are Favourites
Yale – winners of the 2017 IRA National Championships. Photo: Yalebulldogs.com 10 June 2017 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Today, it’s the 152nd Harvard-Yale Regatta on the Thames River in New London,...
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The Bulldogs Take It All
The Yale Varsity crew back at the dock at Gales Ferry as victors after beating Harvard by five seconds. Photo: Göran R Buckhorn/HTBS. 11 June 2017 Göran R Buckhorn writes: The Yale Varsity crew ended a...
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Damn Dogs: A Gales Ferry Picture Cavalcade
Go Yale – painted in the street outside Yale’s training quarters at Gales Ferry. 12 June 2017 Göran R Buckhorn and Mrs B. spent Saturday morning at Gales Ferry by the Thames River: Do you have a bucket...
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The Gulf Week in Brittany
13 June 2017 Hélène Rémond writes: The 9th edition of the maritime and international event Semaine du Golfe (Gulf Week) took place from Monday 22 to Sunday 28 May in Morbihan, Southern Brittany,...
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Row Before Sunrise
14 June 2017 One by one, they come, stepping out into the cold pre-dawn hour The promise of a warm, bright day not yet realized. Twilight stars wink out on the mirrored water. Distant songs of morning...
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2020 Olympic Games Rowing Programme Announced
For how long will lightweight rowing stay in the Olympic Games? Photo: Pinterest. 15 June 2017 Last Monday, FISA, Worldrowing announced that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board...
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2017 Yale-Harvard Regatta: Gales Ferry Revisited
16 June 2017 Göran R Buckhorn writes: For those of you who have read the 2017 Yale-Harvard Regatta articles on HTBS but maybe not seen the three races – or for those who would like to see the races...
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Rowing East, Rowing West
17 June 2017 Through the gold-scrolled afternoon air came the haunting muezzin’s call. We had just come, by ferry, down the Bosporus to the Golden Horn. The shores were jammed with boats. The...
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HWR at 30
Henley Women’s Regatta has a tradition of commissioning excellent posters every year. Andy Tuohy designed the one for 2017 and copies can be purchased from the regatta shop. 17 June 2017 Tim Koch sees...
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The 150th Anniversary of the Paris Crew
18 June 2017 Göran R Buckhorn writes: The vision of the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame is to ‘honour our best and inspire the rest’, and it is celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the ‘Paris Crew’,...
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Canadian R. Fulton v. American J. Biglin
Fulton v. Biglin in the “Canadian Illustrated News”, 11 October 1873. 19 June 2017 Rowing historian William ‘Bill’ Lanouette, a specialist on professional rowing, especially the famous Biglin brothers...
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New Zealand Shines at Poznan
Photo: FISA. 19 June 2017 Yesterday, the second World Rowing Cup ended in Poznan, Poland, with some interesting results, FISA/ Worldrowing.com writes in a press release (here slightly edited by HTBS):...
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New Website Celebrating GB Women’s International Rowing
20 June 2017 Recently, the internet has been graced with a new website on the history of GB women’s international rowing, RowingStory.com. From now on, you will find a link to the website under “Good...
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