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Dory: This is Also Rowing – and Racing!
Dory racing in Gloucester. 18 May 2020 By Larry Fogelberg Larry Fogelberg takes a look at dories. Is this rowing? Of course, it’s rowing: look at the photo above! You probably know that the rather...
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The ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’ trophy for the Men’s Lightweight Boat Race perhaps symbolises the freedom that we have temporarily given up in recent months. 19 May 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch reminisces about...
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The Other Parts of Rowing (TOPOR) VI – Dancing the Highwater Fling
[July 3, 1948] “It was a damp victory for coxswain Charles Hall of Princeton yesterday after the Princeton crew trounced Yale in the Olympic rowing trials here [Princeton NJ]. Brother Tigers are shown...
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A 1964 Vesper Cox-Toss
In this newspaper clipping from the 1964 Olympic Rowing Trials, Vesper oarsmen are dunking their cox Róbert Zimonyi in the drink after beating Harvard. Rowing historian Bill Lanouette can be seen...
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Don Spero: The 1966 World Sculling Champion
The 1966 World Champion in the single sculls, Don Spero. 21 May 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn As a continuance of his recently published article “The Coni Invitation” how he managed to salvage some material...
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Interview with Dan Lyons on being a World Champion and Building Champion Teams
Dan Lyons 22 May 2020 By William O’Chee Dan Lyons, the 1986 World Champion in the coxless four, is one of the most inspiring people in world rowing. Dan has spent 30 years running Team Concepts Inc,...
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A Mass of Imperfections
Rudolph Chambers ‘R.C.’ Lehmann (1856 – 1929), coach, politician, writer, poet and lyricist. 23 May 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch on getting the message across. Assuming that one day life will revert back...
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The Premonition
24 May 2020 By Philip Kuepper The day turned out to be curious. The beach, at first, was draped in light, thick folds of light we wore covering our nakedness, not out of shame (we were naked,...
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Fixed Seat Reading III: Thames and Tyne Tideways
The top picture shows the start of the 1891 Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race at Putney Bridge on the River Thames. Below is an illustration of a professional sculling race at the High Level Bridge in...
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The Long and the Short Of It
The ‘ram dam’ is a coxed treble with bow and stroke rowing sweep while ‘2’ sculls. Here, one is in use during ‘swan upping’ in 2011. 26 May 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch goes from one to 44. In Britain at...
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The Literate and Rowing Lewises – I
A witty, entertaining and well-written book. 27 May 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn While enjoying the book Grub Street Irregular by Jeremy Lewis about literary life in London, Göran R Buckhorn is happily...
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The Literate and Rowing Lewises – II
The winning Cambridge crew of the 1936 Boat Race – from left to right: D.G. Kingsford (6), D.W. Burnford (4), T.S. Cree (bow), W.G.R.M. Laurie (stroke), J.N. Duckworth (cox), H.W. Mason (2), J.H.T....
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Not Lost in Translation
A detail from “The Shanghai Regatta with a View of the Bund” c.1850, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. It shows Westerners boat racing in Shanghai over 10 years before they formally established a...
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The Art Of Buying Rowing Books – Or How Much Did You Say?
A Cornell crew with coach Charles Courtney standing on the right. From “The Cornell Navy” (1907). 30 May 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn Here is another article in The Dry Season Bottom-of-the-Barrel Series....
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A Hieroglyph in the Writing
31 May 2020 By Philip Kuepper Far out from where I sat, a seagull flew low above the water, low as the rower’s head, so that when seagull and rower came parallel, it appeared the rower’s body wore a...
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Tales of the Unexpected II – No Direction Home
The simple cardboard cover of “Boat Racing in Britain 1715 – 1975” showing all of its 45 years of shelf life. 1 June 2020 By Greg Denieffe Greg Denieffe finds that browsing around his collection of...
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Saving a Trinity Rowing Treasure
Image from “The Bantam Oar”, posted on Trinity College Athletic website. 2 June 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn Kevin MacDermott, the men’s head coach at Trinity College, Hartford, brings to life the old...
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RRM Celebrates Its Volunteers
3 June 2020 This week, 1 to 8 June, is Volunteer Week at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley, the institution writes in a press release. ‘They are the difference between a good experience and a great...
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Hey Christo! April Foolery Under Wraps
Christo and wife Jeanne-Claude at ‘The Pont Neuf Wrapped’ in 1985. 4 June 2020 By Chris Dodd Chris Dodd and some old fake news. The death of the Bulgarian artist Christo, on 31 May, who, with his late...
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The Rowing Memsahibs of Naini Tal
A photograph held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, inscribed ‘Nynee Tal Lake 1867’. Sited in northern India, this lake (whose name is nowadays written as ‘Naini Tal’) is surrounded by the...
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