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Being An Equal Athlete
Para-rower Simone Baldini of Italy is competing in the single sculls at the 2017 World Championships. Photo: Canottaggio.org 29 September 2017 At the World Championships in Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida,...
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Competitive Women’s Rowing in Britain since 1945: The Shadow of the 19th Century
Lucy Pocock racing past crowds in the 1912 Women’s Sculling Championship © River & Rowing Museum. 30 September 2017 Lisa Taylor Two days ago, Lisa Taylor, who is in her first year as a...
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Saturday’s Finals at the World Champs
Graeme Thomas (GB). Photo: British Rowing. 30 September 2017 ‘I got a million whatsapp messages telling me I was needed straight away. So I ran over straight away. Today I did my best. I think this...
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In the Act of Rowing
1 October 2017 The sounds of oars’ blades skipping along the flat of the water, are like the wings of ducks snapping to flight. Philip Kuepper (11 September 2017) Tagged: Philip Kuepper, Rowing Poetry
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Sunday’s Finals at the World Champs
In the para-rowing women’s single sculls, Birgit Skarstein, Norway (middle), took gold, Moran Samuel, Israel (left), took silver and Sylvia Pille-Steppart, Germany (right), took bronze. Photo: FISA. 1...
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‘Backsplash’: Rowing pundits put their oar in
Henley’s River and Rowing Museum, the venue for the 2017 Rowing History Conference, sponsored by radleypublishing.com Picture: © Jaap Oepkes/The River & Rowing Museum. 2 October 2017 Tim Koch makes...
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Italy Tops the Medals Table at 2017 World Championships
In the para PR1 men’s single sculls Erik Horrie of Australia took gold. Photo: FISA. 3 October 2017 ‘Twenty-nine countries head home from the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota-Bradenton,...
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More Than Symbol
4 October 2017 ‘Fasces,’ is what I thought, when I saw the tall young man holding upright several oars, only the rower’s symbol of power, but the very implements that power him through whatever water...
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Where the Mighty Rivers (Sometimes) Flow
The flooded “Long Crossing” on Cooper’s Creek in 2016. 5 October 2017 William O’Chee and his son Rory went to explore Queensland’s waterways. While ‘Hear The Boat Sing’ regularly features the waters...
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2017 World Rowing Awards
Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozlowska and Natalia Madaj of Poland were the winners of the 2016 World Rowing Female Crew of the Year. 11 October 2017 The World Rowing Federation, FISA, has now opened public...
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Not to be Missed: 2017 Golden Oars Awards Gala
12 October 2017 On 15 November, at the New York Athletic Club in New York City, USRowing and the National Rowing Foundation (NRF) will co-host the Golden Oars Awards Gala with dinner. This is the...
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Dan Boyne: Small in Stature
The Scottish rower Peter Haining without a bloody nose(?). Photo: Auriol Kensington RC. 13 October 2017 HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn writes: On 10 October, HTBS sent you readers off to Row2K website to...
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Dubai Traditional Rowing Race
14 October 2017 Göran R Buckhorn writes: In 1990, I visited a friend who was working in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE). I toured the city on foot and admired the old parts of the city but also...
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The Nature of Rowing
15 October 2017 How like oars a crab’s legs, the crab’s body a scull, rowing, effortlessly, through the estuary. Philip Kuepper (11 September 2017) Tagged: Philip Kuepper, Rowing Poetry
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2017 World Rowing Coastal Championships: No Rough Winds on Le Léman
Winners in the Men’s Double, Adrian Juhasz and Bendeguz Petervari-Molnar, Hungary, on their way to cross the finish line. Photo: Dick Anderson. 16 October 2017 On Saturday, Dick Anderson, author of the...
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Geek Special: The Ups and Downs of the Sliding Rigger
A graphic from the “Illustrated London News” (ILN) of 25 September 1954 showing the then latest incarnation of an old idea, a double scull with fixed seats and sliding riggers. 17 October 2017 Tim Koch...
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Welcome to HTBS, William!
18 October 2017 HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn writes: It is with great pleasure that I am able to announce that William O’Chee has accepted the offer to become a regular contributor to HTBS. If you are...
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The Rapture Boat
19 October 2017 Like a boat taking repeatedly to water, my mind takes repeatedly to Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 (in E minor Op. 98), the very sea of it meeting me with a host of conditions the sailor must...
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Up the Political Creek with Two Oars
Rowing boat diplomacy in 1964: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev is being rowed by Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander in Harpsundsekan – at the real event, it was actually Khrushchev who was at the...
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A BBC Series That Will Float Your Boat
An illustration from the title sequence of the new BBC series, “Britain Afloat: A history of the British people told through six of its best-loved boats”. 21 October 2017 Tim Koch finally finds...
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