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Henley Thursday: Weather Cools Down, Racing Heats Up
Tideway Scullers race London Rowing Club in mid-morning drizzle. Tim Koch writes: Day two of Henley 2015 started under grey skies and with some drizzle before the sun came out and the breeze picked up....
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Henley Day 3: Good Friday
Petone R.C. of New Zealand who lost to Star Club in the Wyfolds. Tim Koch writes: Those who claim to know about these things had two big expectations at start of Henley Friday, 3 July. One was that the...
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40 years back – ‘Maybe we have champagne and beefsteak’
Bob’s Boys in 1975: Lester, Matheson, Clark, Yallop, Aylings, Sweeney, Crooks, Robertson, Manson, and Janousek. The GB national eight (Leander and Molesey, 2014 world champions) will meet the German...
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Henley Saturday: Brawn On the 4th of July
Hunter from Washington subtilely shows his allegiance. Tim Koch writes: Independence Day at Henley started with sixteen of the original American entry of fifty-nine crews still in the event but, by the...
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Henley Finals Part 1, Open Events: Grossbritannien über alles, Grexit in the...
The figure of the Winged Goddess of Victory on Henley’s Thames Cup (not sponsored by Nike). Tim Koch writes: Splendid video coverage of the finals is in the Henley YouTube Channel, as are the...
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Henley Finals Part 2, Men’s Intermediate and Club Events: Thames wins Thames,...
The glittering prizes. As always, click to enlarge. Tim Koch writes: First, an announcement from @matthewcpinsent: Good news everyone – Steve’s lost all the paperwork – every race has to be re-rowed....
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A Brief* History of the Cork Mechanics
A postcard (posted 1906) featuring a regatta on the Marina, Cork. Greg Denieffe writes: The Irish Rowing Championship Regatta begins today at the National Rowing Centre in County Cork. The secretary of...
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Henley Finals Part 3, Student and Junior Events: Thatcher defeats Westminster...
This year the prizes were presented by Mike Sweeney, C.B.E. who was Chairman of the Committee of Management for twenty-one years and who is now the Regatta’s President, only the fourth person to be...
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Old Masters
Kent Mitchell RC (USA) waiting to go onto the start for a semi-final of F8. Tim Koch writes: A regatta in which some people travel 17,000 kilometres to race just one kilometre must be rather special....
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A Swedish Master Postscript
From left to right: Joakim Breschewski (Kungälvs RK), Håkan Christensson, Per Ekström and Thomas Barge (all Malmö RK). Göran R Buckhorn writes: As Tim Koch mentions in his little report on Henley...
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Hadaway Harry and Doggett have their day
Jamie Brown (on the right), who is playing Harry Clasper, with director Russell Floyd in Ed Waugh’s Hadaway Harry, a play about the famous professional oarsman and boat builder. Two rowing heroes have...
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The 2015 Henley Royal: Some Final Images
Victory: Nereus cox Fetter jubilant at the prize giving, her tattered blazer reminding us of the Dutch student tradition of passing on such garments to the next generation of rowers, the jackets...
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Well Rowed Northeastern, Well Rowed
The Northeastern University Men’s Rowing Team celebrates their 50th anniversary this year. Created in 1965, the rowing programme took off rapidly when Ernest ‘Ernie’ Arlette, the team’s English coach...
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A Howell of Praise
Benjamin Hunting Howell Chris Dodd on Göran Buckhorn’s A Yank at Cambridge – B.H. Howell: The Forgotten Champion. Göran Buckhorn, esteemed editor of esteemed Hear The Boat Sing, has written a biography...
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Edgar the Peaceful: King, Saint and Coxswain
A fanciful Victorian view of eight kings or princes rowing down the Dee from Chester in 973 with King Edgar I at the helm. At least one of the picture’s inaccuracies is that the city did not have a...
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Reading Code
After the race, the exhausted rowers gasped, desperate for air, their bodies contorted like punctuation marks. Two arced like commas. One sat, a question mark, another, an exclamation point, in...
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Broadcasting Henley: Nothing New
The cover of the Henley Preview edition of Rowing magazine, dated July 1965. The picture shows televisions in the grandstands at the 1964 Regatta. The caption inside says ‘TV cameras will again give...
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Rowing Free
Rowing, to her, was as natural as walking, oars, her feet, the water more stable than earth. Rowing brought her to being one with herself, one with the very air through which she rowed. All dissolved...
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Getting a Ride on the Launch
A lot of people would love to be on the umpire’s launch following a race at Henley Royal Regatta. But if you are not a coach or a member of the media, it can really be tricky to get a spot. However, at...
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Great-Aunt Phoebe Radley: A Forgotten Pioneer of Women’s Competitive Rowing
Phoebe Radley on the Lea, probably circa 1913. Family photo. Clive Radley, author of The Radleys of the Lea, writes: My great-aunt Phoebe Radley was born in Hackney, NE London, in 1876. She was the...
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