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Doggett’s 2017: Jack’s the Lad
Jack Keech is the 303rd man to earn a coveted Doggett’s Coat and Badge. Whatever other rowing titles he will hold for a term in the future, he will be a Doggett’s Man forever. 26 July 2017 HTBS is...
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Record Entries for the 2017 World Rowing Junior Championships
Margaux Bailleul of France is the favourite for the women’s single sculls title. Photo: FFA. 27 July 2017 Between 2 and 6 August, the 2017 World Rowing Junior Championships will be held on Galve Lake...
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Ghosts of Doggett’s Past
For historical reasons, Doggett’s is organised by the Fishmongers’ Company, not the Watermen. Since 1310, the piscine pedlars have had four Fishmongers’ Halls on the present site by London Bridge. The...
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The Uncertain Beginning
29 July 2017 The sea lay sullen, grey, just after first light, a sea even the festive boats could not brighten, boats that sat anchored like prayers of praise, the saint, celebrated, would seem happy...
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The Symbol
Photo: Rowsandall 30 July 2017 They lay in the shape of a roughly woven wreath (of laurels?), the sculls, in how they had been brought out from the boathouse, and placed on the flat grass, to be gone...
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Olena Buryak Breaks World Records
Olena Buryak sets two world records. Photo: FISA. 31 July 2017 At the end of last week, Olena Buryak of Ukraine broke two world records in indoor rowing at the World Games in Wroclaw, Poland. Buryak,...
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Sydney Edwards – First Female Cox for U.S. Men’s Crew
Sydney Edwards will make history at the 2017 World Junior Championships as the first female cox of a U.S. men’s national eight. Photo: USRowing.org 1 August 2017 In March, FISA announced that the...
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Some Images of Eton in Words and Pictures
Eton’s rowing programme for 1899. 2 August 2017 While writing on his recent visit to view the famous school’s ‘Procession of Boats’, Tim Koch found some other rowing and non-rowing images of Eton worth...
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In the Art and Spirit of Rowing
David Bareford’s “Victory! Yale Heavyweights Win the Race 150th Yale – Harvard Regatta, June 7, 2015” is on exhibit and sale at The Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport. Courtesy of the Maritime Gallery...
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Mixing up the Genders
At Lucknow Regatta in 1912, Mrs Gratton coxed the Royal Army Medical Corps to victory in the Challenge Fours. Third man from the left is the coach, ‘a medic with whom you did not mess’. Photo from...
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The Teeter-Totter Bridge
5 August 2017 A potpourri of boats were lined up to wait for the bridge to open, a potpourri rowers slipped past, and beneath the bridge’s locked mouth, which, when open, commands the whole of our...
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Electric River
6 August 2017 The Crimson crews slid the sinuous Charles, slid the liquid, sinuous Charles, its skin the color of mackerel. East of the crews, the towers of Boston pierced the Brahman sky, while trees,...
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Romania Tops the Medals Table at Junior World Championships
New sculling star Clark Dean of USA became the junior world champion in the single sculls. The silver medal went to Moritz Wolff of Germany and the bronze to Mmbudzeni Masutha of South Africa. Photo:...
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Robert ‘Bob’ Day R.I.P.
Anacostia Community Boathouse Association. Photo: ClearSpan Fabric Structures. 8 August 2017 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Last week, I was reached by the sad news that Robert ‘Bob’ Day of Silver Springs,...
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A Snapshot of Rowing in the 1890s
9 August 2017 William O’Chee writes: The archives of Brasenose College, Oxford have recently yielded an extraordinary snapshot of rowing technique in the 1890s, which has not previously been seen. The...
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50 Years Between Dietz and Dean
The U.S. men’s eight took a silver medal at the 2017 Junior World Championships. The oarsmen were coxed by their female coxswain, Sydney Edwards. Photo: USRowing’s website. 10 August 2017 As HTBS...
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Welcome to Sarasota–Bradenton Video
11 August 2017 Three days ago, the organisers for the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota–Bradenton, Florida, released a promotion video (see above), not only for the championships but also...
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Rowing Clean
12 August 2017 The stink of raw sewage is a reminder of how foul, waste, no matter how much aromatherapy is spritzed into any air, which is why the thought of a clean, cold rill, deep in a wood, does...
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The Summer, After Noon
13 August 2017 By Nature’s generosity I am brought rivers clothed gold, clothed amber. Pearls become swans. Iridescent mallards of green and purple spill across the water. Muscular rowers shoot past....
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On Vaca
HTBS editor on vacation? Yes, but this is a photograph of Hunter S. Thompson in Big Sur, California. 14 August 2017 Dear HTBS readers, I will be away from the editor’s desk for two weeks. This means...
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