The Snider Cup Goes to Yale
Yale won the Snider Cup on Friday evening on the Thames River. Holding the cup is ‘Jamie Sniderman’, James P. Snider, who has given his name to the cup. Photo: www.yalebulldogs.com. 9 June 2018 Göran R...
View ArticleYale Takes the 153rd Race
Yale’s Varsity crew were unstoppable at Saturday’s Yale – Harvard Regatta. Tired but happy, the Bulldogs crossed the finish line at 18:50. Cole Tilden, in the six seat, had to lie down. Photo:...
View Article2018 Yale – Harvard Regatta: What did the Papers Write?
The cover of the 153rd Yale – Harvard Regatta Programme. 10 June 2018 Göran R Buckhorn writes: After the 153rd Yale – Harvard Regatta on the Thames River yesterday, when Yale was victorious in two of...
View Article2018 Yale – Harvard Regatta Recap
The 2018 Sexton Cup winners, Yale. Photo: www.yalebulldogs.com. 11 June 2018 For those of you who have read the 2018 Yale-Harvard Regatta articles on HTBS but maybe not seen the three races – or those...
View Article18 Champions Crowned at the 2018 USRowing Youth National Championships
Y Quad Cities women’s quadruple sculls took the club’s fifth consecutive gold medal at the 2018 USRowing Youth National Championships. Photo: USRowing. 12 June 2018 On Sunday, USRowing sent out two...
View ArticleLeander: Marking the Beginnings of Its Success
On 7 June, a plaque marking the site of Searle’s boathouse, where what became Leander Club began 200 years ago in 1818, was unveiled in the Fountain Garden of St Thomas’ Hospital on the south bank of...
View ArticleBritish Rowing Partners with WEROW
2018 Women’s Eights Head of the River Race (WEHoRR). A beautiful photograph of Leander from Hammersmith Bridge. Copyright: Angus Thomas/WEROW. 14 June 2018 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Yesterday, British...
View ArticleNo Sex for Dan Boyne and the Trinity Crew in Philly
15 June 2018 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Here follows chapter 17 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...
View ArticleFISA Announces Finalists for 2018 Thomas Keller Medal
16 June 2018 In a press release from yesterday, FISA, Worldrowing.com, announced this year’s finalists for the Thomas Keller Medal. The most prestigious medal awarded in rowing, the Thomas Keller...
View ArticleSome Questions to Author Dan Boyne
18 June 2018 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Dan Boyne Dan Boyne, author of Essential Sculling (2000), The Red Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water (2000) and Kelly: A Father, A Son, An...
View ArticleWill Dan Boyne and the Trinity Crews Win the Jack Bratten Point Trophy?
Photo: RegattaCentral 18 June 2018 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Here follows chapter 18 of “The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge”, Dan Boyne’s tale about his rowing and sculling...
View ArticleTrinity’s Taylor and Tuckwell Collect Men’s Rowing Post-Season Honors
Photo: Trinity College, Hartford. 19 June 2018 Trinity College, Hartford, writes in a press release: Trinity College, Hartford men’s rowing senior co-captain Charles Tuckwell (Melbourne, Australia) was...
View ArticleHenley: Adding to the Family Silver
Regatta Headquarters, Henley-on-Thames, currently in the final stages of organising what Sir John Betjeman called ‘the flowering heart of England’s willow-cooled July’. 20 June 2018 Tim Koch has a...
View ArticleUSRowing Announces U17/U15 National Championship Regatta for 2019
21 June 2018 USRowing will be adding a new national championship regatta in 2019 to cap off the spring season for younger athletes, the organisation announced in a press release on 19 June. Coming off...
View ArticleMoving Pictures
The Thames Rowing Club’s 1923 Grand Challenge Cup winners, part of the club’s inter-war ‘Golden Age’. Back row, standing, from left to right: Reggie Bare, Jack Beresford, Jnr., Edward ‘Cherub’ Chandler...
View ArticleThe Summer Morning
23 June 2018 On the milk-glass river rosettes of boats sit cut, just as first light begins to break through what is left of night. The river begins to rock with the motion of the day. A gull’s wing...
View ArticleStuff, Boats and Boats’ Stuff
24 June 2018 Göran R Buckhorn writes: The 27th annual WoodenBoat Show opened on Friday, 22 June, at Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. As usual, the show is produced and presented by...
View Article2018 WoodenBoat Show Recap
24 June 2018 Göran R Buckhorn writes: So, you never made it to the WoodenBoat Show at Mystic Seaport Museum this weekend? Don’t worry, HTBS has you covered. Here is a quick 3-minute video of what you...
View ArticleWide Medal Spread at the Second World Cup
Women’s eights: gold – The Netherlands, silver – New Zealand, bronze – Australia. Photo: FISA. 25 June 2018 In a press release, here slightly edited by HTBS, FISA, Worldrowing reports from the past...
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