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The Observation
30 April 2019 By Philip Kuepper A mat of rushes wove cover over the flatboat tucked snugly in the cove. A dove stood motionless at the bow, its soft grey body blending into the rushes, causing it...
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The 1991 FISA World Cup at Hjelmsjön, Sweden
An old image of Hjelmsjön. 1 May 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn No, no, FISA is not spreading ‘fake news’ in their latest press release about the bidders for the upcoming World and European Rowing events,...
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First World Cup Takes Place in Plovdiv
Photo: FISA 2 May 2019 It is soon time for the first World Cup this year, FISA writes in a press release. A taste of what 2019 has in store for World Rowing will be revealed when World Rowing Cup I...
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With Bert on the River
Bert Barry, World Professional Sculling Champion 1927-1930. 3 May 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn This Friday, let professional champion sculler Bert Barry take you out on the River Thames. On 5 September...
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Mind Games: Homer Or Annie?
Homer…. 4 May 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch is pleased to find that he is not very different from an elite athlete. I have always been attracted to Homer Simpson’s philosophy that ‘Trying is the first step...
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Toward What Is to Become
A Stonington High School eight on the Mystic River in Mystic, Connecticut. Photo: Göran R Buckhorn. 5 May 2019 By Philip Kuepper In fresh April air rowed the Stonington crew, a practice row up Mystic...
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Willits D. Ansel: A True Renaissance Man Dies
Will Ansel sailing on the Mystic River at the 2007 WoodenBoat Show/Small Craft Weekend. © Photo: Andy Price. 6 May 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn Master boatbuilder, author and artist Willits D. Ansel passed...
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1964 Women’s European Championships – in Colour
Penny Chuter, Great Britain’s best female sculler in the beginning of the 1960s, with a silver medal at the European Championships in 1962. Photo: River & Rowing Museum. 7 May 2019 By Göran R...
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Picture Post: More From The HTBS Photo Archive
Toby Backhouse of Cambridge was a bit cross after coming off worse following a clash in the 2017 Oxford – Cambridge Veterans’ Boat Race. 8 May 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch tries to keep focus. There is a...
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Two Rowing Books on the 2019 Telegraph Sports Book Awards Shortlists
9 May 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn HTBS editor finds it hard to type this article while keeping his fingers crossed. On Tuesday, 7 May, the list of nominations for the British 2019 Telegraph Sports Book...
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Looking to See
10 May 2019 By Philip Kuepper The painted eyes at the prows of dghajsas are the eyes of Osiris, eyes that stare down the Evil Eye of danger, of accident; eyes of good fortune, eyes that see beyond...
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Spirit Mattered
11 May 2019 By Philip Kuepper The Apostle-rocked boat about broke apart on the hellish water. Oars lay like limp arms atop it. Blades failed to cut the blubbery liquid. Fish had become an afterthought....
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China Dominates in Plovdiv
China’s winning crew in the women’s quadruple sculls: stroke Xiaotong Cui, 3 Yang Lyu, 2 Ling Zhang and bow Yunxia Chen. Photo: FISA. 12 May 2019 Opening the 2019 season this weekend was World Rowing...
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Tributes Paid to Will Ansel
At the celebration of Will Ansel in the Shipyard at Mystic Seaport Museum on Friday there were some photographs of Will, taken by Museum photographer Andy Price at the 2007 WoodenBoat Show/Small Craft...
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From the World War I Trenches to the King’s Cup
The Australians outside Wharf House, their accommodation at Henley. From the Smedley Family Collection. 14 May 2019 By Chris Dodd Chris Dodd has read two books about the oarsmen who died in the Great...
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Philadelphia Gold Challenge Cup Foundation Introduces the Blackwall Duling...
15 May 2019 The Philadelphia Gold Challenge Cup Foundation announced in a press release yesterday that the inaugural Blackwall Duling Challenge will be contested as part of its U.S. and world sculling...
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Maybe it’s just a Question of Semantics?
The cover of the Swedish rowing magazine which featured a couple of articles on the FISA World Cup in single sculls on Lake Hjelmsjön in 1991. 16 May 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn Is HTBS editor Göran R...
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When The Band Begins To Play
Winston Churchill pictured in 1895, newly gazetted to the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars. Lord Wolseley, one of the Victorian army’s most influential generals, held that ‘The better you dress a soldier, the...
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After The Band Had Played
Cheers! Following the Combined Cavalry Old Comrades Association Parade and Memorial Service that Tim Koch reported on yesterday, a former member of the Blues and Royals and two Chelsea Pensioners enjoy...
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In the Picture
19 May 2019 By Philip Kuepper Through the rain-spattered window the boats appeared smudges painted on the bay, indistinct shapes caught between the representational and the abstract. They were both...
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