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Rolls of Honour: Further Images of Rowing Club War Memorials
Pilckem, Ypres, 1917. Following my Remembrance Sunday post on rowing club memorials from the 1914 – 1918 war, I received more pictures of oarsmen’s monuments to crewmates lost in the Great War – which...
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And the Winners are…
Photo: FISA 24 November 2018 At the 2018 World Rowing Coaches Conference in Berlin, Germany, FISA announced the winners of the 2018 World Rowing Awards. In a press release from yesterday, FISA...
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The Bright Winter Day
25 November 2018 By Philip Kuepper Boats melt into the hammered silver river, gilding the brown shores, gilding the wet rocks with abstract reflections, boats reshaped into hieroglyphs, messages...
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Tom Everson Revisited
Rowing at Hammersmith sometime in the 1920s. 26 November 2018 By Tim Koch Tim Koch posts an old letter. In 2010, I posted extracts from a letter that I had found in the Auriol Kensington Rowing Club...
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Anna Thornton in Coma after Fall
Anna Thornton (left) and Charlotte Hodgkins-Byrne (right) of Nottingham Rowing Club and the University of London with the new Stonor Trophy for Women’s Double Sculls at 2018 Henley Royal Regatta....
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Thought For The Day
2 December 2018 Tim Koch finds something worthwhile on Twitter. Taken from @KimmyJCrow, the Twitter feed of the sixteen-time Australian national champion, two-time World Champion, and Olympic gold...
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Tokyo’s Sokei Regatta: One of the Big Three?
A poster for the 2018 Sokei Regatta. It can be displayed either way up, depending on your loyalty. Picture: @wkregatta. 3 December 2018 By Tim Koch Tim Koch discovers a boat race that is Big In Japan....
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New Stewards and a New Rule for HRR
Photo: Tim Koch. 5 December 2018 Yesterday, Henley Royal Regatta announced the election of three new Stewards: Alison Faiers is a British Rowing Multi-lane Umpire. Alison has volunteered at the regatta...
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Henley Rules, OK?*
An example of good sportsmanship (sportswomanship?) in the best Henley tradition. Winners and losers who, in the words of Kipling ‘…meet with Triumph and Disaster / and treat those two impostors just...
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Master Plan for Mystic River Boathouse Park Moves Along
Can these buildings be demolished to make room for a boathouse? 7 December 2018 By Göran R Buckhorn A while ago, it seemed the plans for the Hart Perry Boathouse and the Mystic River Boathouse Park...
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The Working World
9 December 2018 By Philip Kuepper On Fair Isle yoals are hauled ashore, and bedded down in noosts, when not in use. (4 December 2018)
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Oxford’s Boat Race Trials: Flea Bites, Comet Soars
The final 18 contenders for the 2019 Oxford Men’s Crew. “Reggie” is in the foreground, “Flea” is in the background. 10 December 2018 By Tim Koch Tim Koch follows in some Dark Blue wakes. For those of...
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Tabs On Trial
The women’s race umpire, Richard Phelps, waits for the crews to get onto the start. 12 December 2018 By Tim Koch Tim Koch witnesses trials and errors. As reported on HTBS, on 7 December, the last 18...
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A 2K Lysander – More Fun Than A 2K Erg?
An advertisement from “The Rowing Almanack and Oarsman’s Companion”, 1878. 17 December 2018 By Tim Koch While a remarkable machine in many ways, it is unfortunate that the modern rowing ergometer...
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The ‘Town’ I Loved So Well
The Town Cup dated to the first Henley Regatta in 1839. Picture taken 4 August 2018. 19 December 2018 By Greg Denieffe This year, three new trophies joined the Henley Royal Regatta silverware family....
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Not Pulling Your Weight
This is probably not the only New Year’s Day row in which only half of the crew did any work. 31 December 2018 By Tim Koch Tim Koch gets historical. We have all been in boats in which we have felt that...
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Blackadder Goes Forth
General Melchett (Stephen Fry), Lieutenant George Barleigh (Hugh Laurie) and Captain Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) discuss an Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race that never was; there were no races 1915 – 1919....
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Help to Restore Old Rowing Films
Photo: Rowing Archives 3 January 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn At New Year’s, HTBS received an e-mail from Lenville O’Donnell of Rowing Archives, who preserves, restores and digitizes old rowing films....
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