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In Her Prime – Henley Women’s Regatta at 30
In a semi-final of the Elite Eights, Northeastern University, USA, (left) race the composite of Aberdeen University BC/Cambridge UWBC/Imperial College/Marlow RC/Newcastle University BC/University of...
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Henley Women’s Regatta Results Part II: Intermediate and Junior Events
A semi-final of J16 4x. Henley RC (right) against Surbiton High School (left) 22 June 2017 Tim Koch sits on the finish line: Club 4+ Lea RC beat Vesta RC by 1/2 length A close finish: Lea celebrates...
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The Love-Hate Eight: The Men of MBC get their first Eight-Oared Shell and get...
“Minnesota Boat Club racing on the Mississippi River, St. Paul”. Members of MBC circa 1890 in singles, doubles, and a straight four, the boats MBC loved to row and race in, just outside of the...
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The Interlocking Absolute
24 June 2017 O! how a dove does haunt the evening wood. It calls over the river like a voice from the world of the dead. Rowers return from their day out. How silently they glide past. I know they are...
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FISA in 3 Minutes
FISA’s old logo. 25 June 2017 Happy Birthday, FISA! Today, exactly 125 years ago, FISA, the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d’Aviron or the International Rowing Federation, also known as...
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Eton’s Procession of Boats: History Rows Past
The stroke and cox of the Eton College Boat Club’s J16 ‘B’ crew in the boat, ‘Alexandra’, on their way to the marshalling area for the start of the 2017 Procession of Boats. The Procession began at...
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The Sixties Swinger
The young Armstrong-Jones – known for bad language, practical jokes, fiery temper and cavalier style. 27 June 2017 On 13 January 2017, Cambridge lost their 1950 cox with the death of Antony...
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Small Oxfordshire Town To Host Rowing Event
Henley Bridge, 6.50am, Tuesday, 27 June – on the way to an early training row. 28 June 2017 Tim Koch goes upriver: There are rumours on the rowing circuit that, starting today, 28 June, there will be a...
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Down By The Riverside: Henley’s Opening Day
If Henley is a place of pilgrimage, this is its temple. 29 June 2017 HTBS special HRR correspondent, Tim Koch. Photo: Clive Radley. Tim Koch buys a day return to Henley. The problem with Henley Royal...
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Henley’s Second Day: A Trip Down The Course
The programme for Henley Regatta’s second (and final) day in 1843. The pre-luncheon programme for Henley Royal Regatta’s second day (of five) in 2017. 30 June 2017 Tim Koch goes for walk down the...
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All Things Wood
This 25-foot model and prototype of the Viking longship “Draken Harald Hårfagre”, which is still docked at Mystic Seaport, is in the Thompson Exhibition Building at the museum’s nord end. 30 June 2017...
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The Boats of Passage
1 July 2017 I want, now, for us to turn to Turner, and observe the progression of his passage of light, from “Ulysses deriding Polyphemus,” to “The ‘Fighting Temeraire’ tugged to her last Berth to be...
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Henley’s Third Day: Halfway There
In a heat of the Thames Cup, Thames Rowing Club ‘B’ were victorious… While their opponents, Royal Chester ‘A’, were vanquished. 1 July 2017 Tim Koch reports in his pyjamas. If you are racing at Henley...
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Henley Royal Regatta: Semi Saturday
The Leander stroke contemplates the meaning of defeat after losing to the Windsor Boys’ School by two feet in the Fawley Challenge Cup. 2 July 2017 Tim Koch confirms that you win some and you lose...
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Rowing Through the Beautiful
3 July 2017 The overall whole of the scene adhered as one. Most would comment, ‘Beautiful,’ and pass on. But I paused to look at the particulars that made the scene possible. A pair of rowers,...
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Boats, Boats, Boats And A Little More…
Wooden boats? Oh, it must be the annual WoodenBoat Show at Mystic Seaport. 4 July 2017 Göran R Buckhorn has had a look at wooden boats. The 26th annual WoodenBoat Show is the three-day festival that...
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Henley: Onboard The Umpire’s Launch
Lea Rowing Club boating for a heat of the Thames Cup. Lea was formed in 1980 by the amalgamation of several former tradesman’s clubs based on the Spring Hill site on the River Lea in East London. The...
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The 1960 Boat Race: Oxford’s Adrian Stokes’s Rare Footage
Princess Margaret and her fiancé Tony Armstrong-Jones in the Cambridge launch following the 1960 Boat Race. From Adrian Stokes’s film on YouTube. Courtesy of L. A. P. Stokes. 6 July 2017 Göran R...
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Lightning, Drownings and Leisured Gentlemen: Recreational Rowing in the 17th...
Figure 1. “West Prospect of Oxford” by William Turner, c. 1814. 7 July 2017 William O’Chee writes: While Eton College and Westminster School have both made claim to have originated the sport of rowing...
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Going For Silver: Henley Finals, Part I
Thames Rowing Club had a lot to drink to at the end of 2017 Regatta. 8 July 2017 Tim Koch produces his tardy reports on Henley’s Finals Day. While the 168th Henley Royal Regatta may have appeared to be...
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