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Rebels on the River – Part II
The Trinity Hall crew that won the 1897 Head of the River. Standing, back row,left to right: Unidentified (probably the spareman), coach Henry Trevor-Jones,Lancelot Baines, Hunting Howell and Gerald...
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Rob Baker New Chief Coach of CUBC
Rob Baker is new Head Coach for CUBC. Photo: Tim Koch. 12 April 2018 Rob Baker has been appointed Chief Coach of Cambridge University Boat Club (CUBC), the club announced on 10 April. Baker is...
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Para Power at the Commonwealth Games
Ali Jawad from England shows how to celebrate after successfully bench pressing 161kg. 13 April 2018 HTBS contributor William O’Chee doesn’t have far to go to witness an extraordinary display of Para...
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Camilla Hadland is the FISA Guest Rowing Commentator
Camilla Hadland. Photo: Twitter. 14 April 2018 Camilla Hadland of Great Britain has been picked as the winner of Worldrowing.com, FISA’s guest rowing commentator competition. She proved to be the best...
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The Conductor of Concerts
15 April 2018 It had been a day of situations bursting, suddenly, into action: a group of youths on the playground, into a game of soccer; a crew of rowers, oars into the water; a flock of starlings,...
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Dan Boyne Sees a Beautiful View from Trinity Chapel
16 April 2018 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Here follows chapter 14 of “The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge”, Dan Boyne’s tale about his rowing and sculling days in the 1970s at...
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Win a Concept 2 Model D Erg
17 April 2018 Stonington High School Crew will hold its Annual Crew Gala on Saturday, 21 April 2018, at 7 – 11 p.m. This year, the crew is celebrating its 20-year anniversary with...
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Sarah Posey is New Director of River and Rowing Museum
Dr Sarah Posey is new director of the River and Rowing Museum in Henley. 18 April 2018 Yesterday, the Henley Standard wrote that the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames has appointed Dr Sarah...
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The Boys of the Boys of the Boys in the Boat
Jim Pocock, Jr., is giving a lecture on his famous family at the Woodbridge Library. Photo: Tom Weil. 19 April 2018 Tom Weil writes: The best-seller status of Daniel James Brown’s The Boys in the Boat...
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Blue Boats
20 April 2018 I. The blue boat broke in two. The ocean oozed through the break. Blue oozed everywhere, the shore, the sky, the breakwater, with its teeth of rocks, rocks sharp as incisors birds sensed...
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What There Was to See
21 April 2018 Only a ghostly outline, carved on the air, was the lighthouse in the fog after dawn, the lighthouse that stood a look of abandonment, its milky eye growing a cataract. They rowed through...
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Winter Over
22 April 2018 The air was heavy with expectancy. Not for naught the boat tied to the dock, the coach’s boat already ready for the season. The boat sat a fact practice was imminent, coaches and crews...
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The Event
23 April 2018 All, then, that was left to row with were the oars of hope. Exhaustion inhabited every bone and sinew of their bodies. Like refugees having set out from the shores of oppression, the...
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Anzac Day 2018: Remembering the Diggers*.
New Zealand soldiers in England created this card for Christmas 1916. It illustrates how the Gallipoli campaign was celebrated as a source of national pride for both Australia and New Zealand from the...
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The World is Waiting for you Rowers
Why not take a rowing trip in Ireland? 26 April 2018 One of our website’s friends, Ruth Marr, founder and president of the travelling website for rowers, Rowing The World, contacted HTBS to share some...
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FISA Re-Brand: ‘It’s in our nature’
Photo: FISA. 27 April 2018 Two days ago, Worldrowing, FISA, launched ‘It’s in our nature’. Worldrowing, FISA, just launched a new brand platform to describe who the rowers are – ‘It’s in our nature’....
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Harbor Lights: Dream Poem
28 April 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 Race and the Wind
29 April 2018 From the happy harbor of Harlingen, ten-oared dorries chop the water during the Sloepenrace to Terschelling, dune-sculpted isle anchored in the sea by a wood of pine; eye of an isle...
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Thomi, Rowing’s Gnome of Zürich
Thomi with his son Dominik and rowing partner Hans Frohofer, 1956. 30 April 2018 Chris Dodd delves into a welcome biography of the president who shaped World Rowing. What a joy it is to have an excuse...
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