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WRMR2019 – Friday: Celebrating Rowing Octogenarians
14 September 2019 Photography Marie Barge An octogenarian ceremony was held yesterday at the 2019 World Rowing Masters Regatta in Velence, Hungary, where those regatta participants between 80 and 89+...
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WRMS2019: Ronald Chen: ‘I’m very pleased with Velence’
New Chair of the Masters Commission Ronald Chen with HTBS’s Marie Barge. Photo: Kerstin Ekström. 14 September 2019 By Marie Barge HTBS’s Marie Barge managed to get a brief chat with Ronald Chen, of the...
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Richard Hillary: Oarsman, Spitfire Pilot, Writer and Guinea Pig
Achtung Spitfire! British men such as myself, born 20 years after the Second World War, were raised on an image of the Battle of Britain perpetuated by boy’s comics, ‘Biggles’ books and by the classic...
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WRMR2019: Food and Sight-Seeing In and Around Velence
Early morning in Velence. 16 September 2019 Text & Photography Marie Barge Here is Marie Barge’s final report from the 2019 World Rowing Masters Regatta in Velence, Hungary. This time she is...
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WRMS2019: Velence Revisited
The view from Bence Hill Lookout – Lake Velence. Photo: Marie Barge. 17 September 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn As you readers have noted, HTBS had a special correspondent (text and photography), Marie...
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For Valour
The June 1946 front cover of “The Sketch”, an illustrated weekly journal, recording that the crew that went Head of the River in Oxford’s 1946 Summer Eights was stroked by a winner of the Victoria...
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Vacation Time
19 September 2019 HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn writes: Yes, even an editor of a rowing history blog needs some vacation… Starting today, I will be off from HTBS. There are a few articles in the...
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Crewcial Collectables: Caveat Emptor
20 September 2019 By Greg Denieffe Greg Denieffe gets something out of his system All rules are equal, but some rules are more equal than others. Back in the day, when sporting organisations and events...
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A Workable Liberty
Plimoth Plantation’s “Mayflower II” was launched into the Mystic River on 7 September. The staff at Mystic Seaport Museum’s Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard and Plimoth Plantation have work on...
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Rowing in Sweden
24 September 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn After having been in Sweden for a couple of days, I received a digital post card from HTBS colleague Greg Denieffe, who was wondering how the weather was in my old...
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New Book: The Seven Seat
Malmö, 1 October 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn Göran R Buckhorn has read a new book, an entertaining tale of American college rowing in the 1970s on ‘juvenile behaviour,’ ‘brotherly love’ and how to beat...
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Rowing Future Conference
The Rowing Gallery at RRM. Photo: Tim Koch. 3 October 2019 Are you ready for an exciting weekend of debate, discussion and innovation at River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames? Enjoy the...
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The 2019 Wingfield Sculls: Best Scullers Forever
Meghann Jackson of London Rowing Club, a second-time Wingfields contender, prepares to go afloat alongside the 42-foot saloon launch “Verity”, a splendid Edwardian craft that served as the Wingfield...
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Sunrise at Sunnyside
Photo courtesy Bill Donegan. 7 October 2019 By Grant Sommers Oars crack, collide into cranky lake contemplating ice, reluctantly gives up her wake – she is Also unpleased to linger in darkness,...
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Kit Inspection
Ernie Barry, five times professional world sculling champion, 1912 – 1919, in some well-worn rowing kit. 8 October 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch produces one of his rowing shorts. When I started rowing in...
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James Gobbo: President of OUBC – But Not of Australia
James Gobbo as depicted in the 1954 Boat Race programme. 9 October 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch finds that Sir James Gobbo has Something To Declare. It is no reflection on the achievements and abilities...
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The Hardest Rowing Race in the World
The crew from Germany won the 2019 SH Netz Cup. Photo from SH Netz Cup website. 10 October 2019 By Larry Fogelberg This year’s Netz Cup Race in Germany, during the first weekend in September, caused a...
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Time to Buy your Tickets for the Golden Oars Gala
USRowing Male and Female Under 23 Athletes of the Year: Sam Melvin and Emily Kallfelz will receive their Golden Oars on 7 November at the New York Athletic Club in Manhattan. Photo: USRowing website....
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The Women Rowers
Image from Greensboro Crew website. 13 October 2019 By Philip Kuepper There was a military precision about how the coach commanded the young women, as one, to lift their shell above their heads, and...
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Finalists for the 2019 World Rowing Awards
14 October 2019 Today, FISA, World Rowing, announced the finalists for the 2019 World Rowing Awards. Following public nomination, the FISA Executive Committee selected the finalists based on the...
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