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Writing ‘the Deads’ with a Deadline
26 August 2019 Göran R Buckhorn HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn watches a documentary where a dead oarsman plays an important part. As a young man, fresh out of university, I managed to land a position...
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When The Crimson Met The Blue
A lithograph supposedly of the start of the boat race that took place between a Harvard crew and an Oxford crew over the Thames Putney to Mortlake course on 27 August 1869. There was an enormous public...
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A Matter Of Life And Death
A cartoon by Michael Heath in “The Spectator”. 28 August 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch, inspired by Göran R Buckhorn’s recent piece on obituaries, tries not to be a tireless raconteur. Voltaire was quoted...
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Someone is Sorry…
29 August 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn Did you try to access FISA, World Rowing’s website in the beginning of the week and had problems doing so? You were not alone. We were many who tried to find the...
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A Rowing Tourist: Going to a Place Worth Visiting
Bled – the lake had a veil of mist. 30 August 2019 Marie Barge, text & photography © Not only is Marie Barge a brilliant photographer, which she has been proven previously on HTBS, she can write...
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Dad’s Army on the Water: The Upper Thames Patrol
31 August 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn Historian Bill King will give a talk about the formation of the waterborne Home Guard of the River Thames during World War II at the River and Rowing Museum in...
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Where Rivers Narrow
1 September 2019 By Philip Kuepper Where rivers narrow they appear great liquid sculls, oars of sunlight lying along their slender banks, waiting for who to row? The rivers flow. The sculls are set in...
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2019 World Champions and 2020 Tokyo Games Qualifiers
2 September 2019 The 2019 World Rowing Championships doubled as the main qualification regatta for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This doubled the excitement and intensity as racing...
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D-Day
Three of the four contenders for the 2019 Doggett’s Coat and Badge pictured recently outside Fishmongers Hall. Left to right George Gilbert, Jack Finelli, Simon McCarthy (winner in 1984) and James...
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Catch the Feeling at the 2019 European Universities Rowing Championships
Image from the Jönköping 2019 EUSA website. 4 September 2019 The 2019 European Universities Rowing Championships starts today. Over a three-month period, the 2019 European Universities Championships in...
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Frida Svensson Elected Chair of the Athletes Commission
At the 2019 FISA Ordinary Congress on 2 September, Swede Frida Svensson was elected FISA’s new Athletes Commission Chair. Photo: FISA, World Rowing website. 5 September 2019 Following the 2019 World...
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Nominations for the 2019 World Rowing Awards
6 September 2019 It’s time to nominate your favourite rowers for the 2019 World Rowing Awards, FISA, World Rowing writes on the website. FISA would like to know who you think was the best in rowing in...
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Doggett’s 2019: Brutal!
Welcome to the club. The Doggett’s Coat and Badge, the single sculling race for newly qualified Thames Watermen run since 1715, was won on 4 September by 21-year-old Patrick ‘Paddy’ Keech, beating...
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In the Moment
8 September 2019 By Philip Kuepper A schooner is shooed along by the wind. With knife-sharp wings a gull cuts through a loaf of cloud, a slab of which flattens, like a raft in the sky, two youths in a...
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Success for European Universities Rowing Championships in Jönköping
9 September 2019 European Universities Rowing Championships in Jönköping, Sweden, ended on Saturday, Kenneth Alfelt writes. Rowers from 21 countries and 81 universities competed in 11 boat classes for...
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Deja Vue All Over Again
A lithograph produced by New York-based Currier and Ives showing the Harvard and Oxford crews getting ready to start their race on 27 August 1869. 10 September 2019 By Thomas E. Weil A supplement to...
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WRMR2019 – Starts Today
Lake Velence is surrounded by beautiful nature just like Lake Bled. Seen here is an eight on Lake Bled for the 2017 World Rowing Masters Regatta. Photo: Marie Barge. 11 September 2019 It’s time for the...
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WRMR2019 – Wednesday: Photo Cavalcade
12 September 2019 Text & Photography Marie Barge The World Rowing Masters Regatta started yesterday, Wednesday, with among other things an opening ceremony, Marie Barge writes. It’s unfortunate...
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WRMR2019 – Thursday: Three Women from the Land of the Rising Sun
Three rowing tourists from Japan. From left to right: Tomoko Koga, Mokoko Saito and Kazuko Nishimura. 13 September 2019 Text & Photography Marie Barge Marie Barge, a Japanophile, was happy to chat...
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WRMR2019: Gay & Lesbian Rowing Federation
Brian Todd, executive director of GLRF. 13 September 2019 Text & Photography Marie Barge ‘The Gay and Lesbian Rowing Federation (GLRF) started in 2003,’ says Executive Director Brian Todd, who has...
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