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Facing the Dark Blue Music
Oxford Head Coach Sean Bowden (left) and the crew that he has chosen (by desire or by default) to race Cambridge on Saturday. Chris Dodd writes from Putney. Pictures and captions by Tim Koch. 22 March...
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Boat Race Quiz – The Answers
23 March 2018 On 5 March, HTBS re-ran and old 1983 quiz by Chris Dodd for the upcoming Boat Races on Saturday 24 March. It seems to have been a tricky one because we didn’t get that many replies, and...
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Today Is Boat Race Day: Let Battle Commence
The date on this London Transport poster is correct – but the year is 1951. 24 March 2018 – Boat Race Day Tim Koch meanders from Putney to Mortlake. Today, 24 March, sees the 73rd Women’s Boat Race and...
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Harbor Lights: Dream Poem
25 March 2018 Toward dawn, the words sailed into my sleeping mind, almost taking the shape of a boat at anchor in the black harbor of dream. I could not see a shore, though I felt its flat, massive...
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The 2018 Boat Races: Cambridge is the Big Dog in the Fight
The Newfoundland dog belonging to Toby Backhouse (CUBC 1989), complete with its own Light Blue cap, checks out a smaller breed wearing a Dark Blue coat, perhaps trying to decide whether to eat it now...
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The 2018 Oxford – Cambridge Veterans’ Race: Life in the Old Dogs Yet
Many thanks to Toby Backhouse’s dog, Agnès, for providing justification for a title for the second time in a few days. The only dog that enjoys going to the Vets’, the Newfoundland is pictured here in...
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Blue to the End: Cyril Burnand and the 1911 Cambridge Blues
The 1911 Boat Race, with Cambridge behind. 28 March 2018 HTBS is happy to introduce a guest writer to the web site, Alice Morrey. She is a post-graduate at the Bristol University with an interest in...
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Dan Boyne Wonders Who is the Better Crew?
Photo: U.S. Coast Guard Academy. 29 March 2018 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Here follows chapter 13 of “The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge”, Dan Boyne’s tale about his rowing...
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Out-Foxed in Red Wing
The Stillwater crew who defeated Red Wing BC in 1875. Courtesy of Washington County Historical Society. 30 March 2018 The sport of rowing enjoyed a surge in popularity during the 1870s, due in large...
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Mark Davies is New Chairman of British Rowing
Mark Davies. Photo © Nick Middleton. British Rowing website. 31 March 2018 The other day, British Rowing announced that Mark Davies is taking over from Annamarie Phelps as new Chairman for the...
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The Celestial Meal
2 April 2018 In the rickety rowboat, the old salt sat bent over the oars. He bore a resplendent trout for his breakfast. Feasting on a rainbow never failed to awe him. Philip Kuepper (7 March 2018)
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The 2022 World Rowing Championships Go to Racice
Racice in the Czech Republic © Detlev Seyb/MyRowingPhoto.com/FISA. 3 April 2018 In a press release, the World Rowing Federation, FISA, announced that the 2022 World Rowing Championships has been...
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New Rowing Documentary: “Kiss the Joy”
New rowing documentary, “Kiss the Joy – The Story of Joan Lind Van Blom” by filmmaker Jean Strauss, will be released at the end of April. 4 April 2018 Joan Lind Van Blom passed away in August 2015, age...
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Swan Moon
5 April 2018 On Easter eve the moon rose floating up the midnight sky, a swan moon already reflecting the light to come, light that would burst open over the morn, and sing down the celestial on the...
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Rowing’s Links to the Founders of the GAA and Ireland’s Oldest Rowing Boat?
Antique Hurley Stick owned by Michael Cusack. 6 April 2018 Greg Denieffe writes: The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is Ireland’s largest sporting organisation and rightly acknowledged as one of the...
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Ian Whitehead: The Tyne’s Role in the Development of the Racing Shell
James Renforth, one of the North’s famous rowers. 7 April 2018 HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn writes: The other day, HTBS received an interesting e-mail from Ian Whitehead, author of The Sporting Tyne...
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Golden Tributes
Terry Wight hands over his father, David Wight’s 1956 Olympic gold medal in the eights to Yale. Behind him is the eight’s cox, Bill Becklean. 8 April 2018 Tom Weil was at Yale’s Gilder Boathouse...
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Neutral Waters: Into ‘eaven from ‘ell
A postcard from 1918 showing the end of a race for coxed fours with soldiers spectating in the right foreground. Its eBay listing states that it was from the estate of Gunner AF Lee, Royal Field...
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Rebels on the River – Part I
Oxford President Donal Macdonald celebrating his crew’s victory in 1987. 10 April 2018 Göran R Buckhorn takes a look at mutinies on the River Thames. A week before the 164th men’s Boat Race on 24...
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