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The Humility of Rowing
22 January 2020 By Philip Kuepper ‘I meet the river. Or is it, the river meets me, divides to either side of my shell, a divided river the blades of my oars seek detente with, to get past the impasse...
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2020: Stopping the Past Becoming the Future
A coxed four from the Berlin Jewish rowing club ‘Ivria’, pictured in 1935. It is likely that all five men would have been killed in the following 10 years. Picture: Herbert Sonnenfeld / Jewish Museum...
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The Habit of Rowing
26 January 2020 By Philip Kuepper ‘Falls a tender morning rain I row through. Not to, would dry up my desire.’ (30 December 2019)
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The 2020 Power Ten Dinner: “Creatures Great and Small”
28 January 2020 By Tom Weil Tom Weil went to this year’s Power Ten Dinner on 16 January at the New York Racquet and Tennis Club in New York City. Here is Tom’s report: Few rowing events off the course...
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Boat Race 2020: News of the Blues
In the Fours Head, held on 23 November 2019, a Cambridge women’s crew won the Band 1 Academic Coxless Fours, 54 seconds ahead of an Oxford boat. However, another Oxford crew won the coxed version of...
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World Rowing Indoor Championships Draws Record Entries
Racing at the 2020 European Rowing Indoor Championships in Prague © Detlev Seyb/MyRowingPhoto.com 31 January 2020 The 2020 World Rowing Indoor Championships has attracted athletes from a record 51...
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Toodle Pip, Old Blighty
Signature ‘Kak”s take on Brexit in the French newspaper L’Opinion in February 2016. Courtesy of ‘Kak’. 1 February 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn …and then there were 27. So, we had to say farewell to Great...
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A Watercolor
3 February 2020 By Philip Kuepper You can have all the blacks and the whites you like. Give me, instead, melon, orange purple, vermilion, green, a blue of such violet I can wear it as a pair of trunks...
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My San Diego Crew Classic
Image from San Diego Crew Classic website. 4 February 2020 By Larry Fogelberg You’ve never heard of the San Diego Crew Classic? Neither had I. But early in April 2016, my sister celebrated her “round”...
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What’s the Best Place for a Coxswain?
In 1929, London Rowing Club experimented with ‘syncopated rowing’ whereby each pair in an eight took the catch a quarter of a stroke after the pair in front so that four oars were always in the water....
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Kirk Douglas 1916 – 2020: Off to Valhalla
Farewell Kirk Douglas! 7 January 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn On Wednesday, 5 January, American iconic movie star Kirk Douglas passed away, at the ripe old age of 103. Among his many great films, it’s...
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World Rowing and Concept2 Form Indoor Rowing Partnership
8 February 2020 The opportunity to grow indoor rowing has just been made stronger by a partnership between the World Rowing Federation, FISA, and indoor rowing manufacturer Concept2, FISA writes in a...
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Safe Passage
9 February 2020 By Philip Kuepper Fall soft fat flakes of snow on the brightly painted boats, sober in their stillness on the still water, sober to the point of thoughtfulness, as though they are about...
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A Sculler’s Sonnet
10 February 2020 By Larry Fogelberg When I’m in a skiff with a scull in each hand, And the only sound is the splash at the catch, Watching my wake as my puddles expand, There’s no feeling elsewhere can...
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The Political Courtney
The Political Courtney caricature published in “Puck” magazine in 1884. 13 February 2020 By Stephan Ploke When Tim Koch posted his article on the “The Contest for the Democrats’ Stroke Seat” a while...
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Valentine’s Day: Hugs, Kisses and Rowmance
In a famous picture, Ercole Olgeni and Giovanni Scatturin of Italy kiss after winning Gold in the coxed pairs at the 1920 Olympic Games. 14 February 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch observes that rowing...
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Rowing Epiphanies
16 February 2020 By Philip Kuepper I. Shed of shell, shed of oar, the desire to be a fish coursed through the rower. He imagined his shoulder blades fins. II. How to be one with the water was the...
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Jumbo Edwards: Oarsman, Coach and RAF Pilot – Part I
Crash Positions: Ditching a “Flying Coffin” A Consolidated Liberator from 53 Squadron, a similar plane that was flown by Jumbo Edwards on his ill-fated mission in 1943. 17 February 2020 By Gavin...
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Jumbo Edwards: Oarsman, Coach and RAF Pilot – Part II
The 1926 Boat Race: Lost Race for Oxford The 1926 Oxford crew in the garden at their Putney ‘home’. Jumbo is in the middle, back row. Sir James Croft seated at the front. 18 February 2020 By Gavin...
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Jumbo Edwards: Oarsman, Coach and RAF Pilot – Part III
Good-bye Oxford – Hello London! The London RC crew that took the 1931 Grand Challege Cup at Henley. Jumbo Edwards sitting on the far left. From Chris Dodd’s book on the club, “Water Boiling Aft”...
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