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Boat Race Day 2019: Images and Impressions
Boat Race Day 2019 dawned with a gentle mist lightly covering the river. 12 April 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch’s final look at Boat Race Day. Hammersmith Bridge, Race Day, 9 am. Oxford has an early...
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More on More Power
12 April 2019 In July last year, Tim Koch reviewed Hugh Matheson and Chris Dodd’s biography More Power – The Story of Jürgen Grobler, The Most Successful Olympic Coach of All Time (Harper Collins,...
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Seventeen Men and a Girl
Sue Brown was the first female cox to steer a men’s crew in The Boat Race, for Oxford in 1981. 13 March 2019 At this year’s Boat Races, Matthew Holland coxed Cambridge women’s Blue Boat, while Victoria...
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Oarsmen and their Wonderful Knees and Legs
‘L’Enfant Terrible at Henley: “Oh! nurse, look at his little trousers”’. “The Sketch”, 12 July 1893. 14 April 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn When legs were loudly appreciated at Putney. There has already...
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Reflections on Boat Race Day
Chris Dodd had some thoughts on Boat Race Day. 15 April 2019 By Chris Dodd Bridge of sighs Hammersmith Bridge on Boat Race Day c.1862 by Walter Greaves, the son of a Thames waterman and a self-taught...
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1968: Facetious Facts on The Boat Race
One of the ‘husky oarsmen’ in the 1968 Oxford crew, Dan Topolski (though this picture was taken in 1967). Topolski would later become one of the Dark Blues’ most famous coaches. 16 April 2019 By Göran...
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Andrew Larkin’s Life in Boats, Fast and Slow
The U.S. 1968 Olympic eight, from the bow: David Higgins, Cleve Livingston, Steve Brooks, Franklin Hobbs, Scott Steketee, Andy Larkin, Curtis Canning, Arthur Evans (stoke), Paul Hoffman (cox). Photo...
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The Hearth of Paris
Notre Dame, Paris, by David Roberts. 18 April 2019 By Philip Kuepper How like a hearth of light that splendid Gothic ship moored in the Seine, taking on millions of passengers through eight hundred...
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Nordic Rowing Goes Hollywood
Movie poster for the film “The Vikings”. 19 April 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn In mid-May 1957, 125 elite Scandinavian oarsmen gathered at the Sogne Fjord in Norway to play ‘rowing Vikings’ in Kirk...
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Happy Easter!
20 April 2019 A couple of years ago Tim Koch asks a question that is worth repeating: Who Would Win This Easter Race? The rabbits. They jump the start. The chicks are slow to feather.
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The June 1829 Letter
Letter receiver Charles Merivale and letter writer Charles Wordsworth. 20 April 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn That important June 1829 letter that Wordsworth wrote to Merivale. Exactly a month ago, HTBS...
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The Pen of Memory
21 April 2019 By Philip Kuepper Peals of bells fall, like tears, down the face of the air over the little town above the river. The embering hour dies. Dusk deepens. The hearth of the sky goes out. I...
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Bevis Sanford: 1939 Light Blues Stroke Dies
Cambridge 1939 stroke Bevis Sanford has died at the age of 101. 22 April 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn Cambridge’s oldest oarsman, Bevis Sanford, passed away on 4 April 2019 at age 101. Bevis Sanford, who...
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Hail To The Stroke
Teddy Roosevelt, U.S. President 1901-1909, in rowing kit at Harvard, c.1877. He called rowing ‘a great and permanent amusement’. Picture: Harvard College Library. 23 April 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch...
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Let the Public See their Heroes
GB’s leading woman sculler, Vicky Thornley, notched up yet another win, with a 2.37 sec margin over Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne. © Photo: Robert Treharne Jones 24 April 2019 By Robert Treharne Jones Why...
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ANZAC Heritage, A Rowing Champion
100 Days of Heroes: Brave Keith Heritage was the first to join up for World War I. DAMIAN BESTER, “Mercury”. 21 September 2018. 25 April 2019 By Louis Petrin Today is Anzac Day in Australia. This...
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Daniel James Brown: The Story Behind the Man
In a programme from PBS Hawaii, author of “The Boys in the Boat”, Daniel James Brown, was interviewed which offered some insights behind the author. Photo: Göran R Buckhorn 26 April 2019 By Tom Weil...
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Confounded Concept 2
or An old Oar on an Erg 27 April 2019 By Larry Fogelberg An ergometer is a wicked machine. With its little display, it’s a fiend. You drop down on the seat, Then strap in your feet, And reluctantly...
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The Gamble
28 April 2019 By Philip Kuepper I row out into Homer’s seascapes. I let his waves take me to whatever horizon he has realized across the canvas. I row with the dory man, a mask of anxiousness etching...
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Out Sailing
29 April 2019 By Philip Kuepper Fingers of the wind played the sea, like liquid keys of a piano. There sounded a storm of music, even, at times, a symphony turned insane. Then came calm. Shone the sun,...
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