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Back To The Futures
18 November 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch took a cheap day return to Henley. Chris Dodd was waiting for him. The future is always with us and on Saturday, 16 November, Henley’s River and Rowing Museum...
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Drawing Rhymes with Rowing
The cover of “Dans le même bateau”. Copyright ÉDITIONS FUTUROPOLIS/Dans le même bateau, Zelba 2019. 19 November 2019 By Hélène Rémond Hélène Rémond has found a new graphic novel on rowing in the...
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The Hunger for Metaphor
20 November 2019 By Philip Kuepper I. In profile, the row of gondolas appeared slices of bell pepper set on the chopping block of the canal. II. Gondolas littered the sheet of the water, like notes of...
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Book Talk by Dan Boyne
21 November 2019 Dan Boyne is giving a talk about his latest book, The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Revenge, and Redemption, at Trinity College, Hartford, on 10 December at 12:00-1:30 p.m. Some...
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Boat Race Day 2020: Making History (Twice)
The Boat Race trophy on display at the Oxford – Cambridge Presidents’ Challenge. 23 November 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch balances camera and canapés. Winter is a cold, wet and dark time for rowers but...
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The Finest of the Finest of 2019
24 November 2019 On 14 October, FISA, World Rowing, announced the finalists for the 2019 World Rowing Awards. Then a couple of days ago, at the World Rowing Awards dinner during the 2019 World Rowing...
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At RRM: 24-Hour Row to Raise Money for the Challenge of a Lifetime
The 24-hour fundraising event at the River & Rowing Museum is the brainchild of The Bubbleheads, a team of four deep sea saturation divers, who are one of the crews set to embark on the challenge...
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Fast Fours
Many rowers seem to think that events such as the Fours Head ‘just happen’. These are the people who attended the pre-race umpires’ briefing, only some of those who are needed to organise and run a...
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The Elliptical Orbiter
Luigi Colani, a ‘three-dimensional philosopher of the future’. Picture: grund.cz 29 November 2019 By Chris Dodd Chris Dodd laments the passing of Luigi Colani, creator of the Glass Casket. The death...
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Heroes at Fishmongers’ Hall
Fishmongers’ Hall during the 2015 Doggett’s Coat and Badge. 30 November 2019 By Tim Koch Everyone will be aware of the terrible events in Fishmongers’ Hall and on London Bridge on Friday. Terrorism and...
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Of Passage
1 December 2019 By Philip Kuepper A rowboat sat abandoned in the weed-clogged yard, emanating voyages past, near which swayed bachelor buttons, and buttercups, like ancient priests rowing through a...
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Rowing to College
When did “The New York Times” publish a rowing article that covered more than half the front page of SportsMonday and half a page inside the sports section? Never in modern time is a good guess. But it...
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Bare Buttocks in the Boat
3 December 2019 By Lawrence Fogelberg Australian surf rowing as preformed “down under” is very different from the rowing most of us know as the sport. While FISA, World Rowing, does not approve of this...
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Pete Reed: #NotLyingDown
Two pictures from @PeteReed. The one on the left was posted on 8 July 2019, the one on the right on 2 December 2019 (though it may have been taken some weeks earlier). 4 December 2019 By Tim Koch It is...
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Part I – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist
Ladies and Lucre Peter Haig Thomas coaching in 1948. Characteristically, his battered old hat is matched with an extravagant fur coat made from the pelts of wolves that he had shot himself. 9 December...
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Part II – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist
Boats not books Third Trinity’s First May Boat, Head of the River, 1903. PHT is sitting second from the right. Picture courtesy of Tony Haig Thomas. 10 December 2019 By Tim Koch In Part I, published...
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Part III – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist
Ye whose style is Orthodox Haig Thomas coaching a bank tub at Cambridge in 1933. 11 December 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch continues his look at the life of Peter Haig Thomas. Here he deals with the...
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Part IV – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist
Accepting His Teaching PHT coaching Oxford at Henley in preparation for the 1948 Boat Race. 12 December 2019 By Tim Koch In this last part of his four-part look at the life of Peter Haig Thomas, Tim...
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Expecto Remo
The crest of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It wouldn’t take much to replace those wands with oars. 13 December 2019 By Greg Denieffe Greg Denieffe waves his wand at Hogwarts School. The...
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