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Room to Breathe
24 June 2020 By Philip Kuepper (to George Floyd) Turn guns into oars, nightsticks into oars. Turn streets into bodies of water; minds in flow, one with the other; our bodies, our shells we row through...
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FISA Announces a Revised 2021 Regatta Season
24 June 2020 Due to changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, World Rowing’s 2021 season has been adapted, the organisation writes in a press release today. These adaptations consider the postponement...
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Para-Rower Dies Rowing to Honolulu
Angela Madsen, 60, died while rowing to Hawaii from California. 25 June 2020 The Long Beach rowing community is in mourning after learning that three-time Paralympian and U.S. Marine Corps veteran...
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A Swedish-Philadelphian Story
The Swedes rowing in “Svea”. 26 June 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn Here is another article in The Dry Season Bottom-of-the-Barrel Series in which Göran R Buckhorn finds a Swedish-Philadelphian foot note...
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Richmond Regatta: A Duck Hunt and a Pig Hunt
The course of Richmond Amateur Regatta seen from Richmond Hill. 27 June 2020 By Daniel Walker On the day of Richmond Amateur Regatta, Daniel Walker looks at Richmond regattas, past and present. Today...
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Late, Rowing Home
28 June 2020 By Philip Kuepper Then, the sun dissolved beneath the horizon. The sea turned ink. The rower turned black, as the cloak of night enwrapped him. His oxblood shell lay a ruby on the water...
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The Importance of Being Ernest
A Rowing Lawson? 29 June 2020 By John R. Schoonover John R. Schoonover investigates if he has an original rowing painting by Ernest Lawson. Way back in August 2012, I was the successful bidder of a...
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Fair Games
London 2012 Olympic Regatta: The ‘Albano’ system of parallel lines of buoys guides the finalists in the men’s coxless fours home. The red buoys mark the last 100 metres. 30 June 2020 By Chris Dodd...
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HRR 2020: Plus ça change
A sign that normally hangs from Henley Bridge during the Regatta. Sadly, this year there really are ‘no rowing craft’. 1 July 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch marks the fact that today should have been the...
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HRR 2020: I See No Boats*
I spy, 2016. 2 July 2020 By Tim Koch To mark what would have been Henley’s second day, Tim Koch turns his back on the rowers and looks at the spectators. Keeping cool, 2017. Boys in blue, 2017. Old...
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HRR 2020: Henley ‘Sans’ Rowing
On what should have been the third day of the 2020 Regatta, Henley maybe as quiet as it was in 1690 when Jan Siberechts painted this picture, ‘Landscape with Rainbow, Henley-on-Thames’. 3 July 2020 By...
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HRR 2020: Henley at Home
In 1936, “Punch” magazine published this idea of how to enjoy the Boat Race from your armchair. 4 July 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch suggests how, what should have been the semi-final and finals days at...
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HRR 2020: Not Rowed Out
Thumbs up to Henley. Thames wins a heat of the Thames Cup, 2017. 5 June 2020 By Tim Koch To mark what should have been finals day, Tim Koch’s archive shows some of the pain and pleasure of competing at...
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What will Compare to this? – Nothing!
1952 Olympic U.S. coxed pair – James Beggs, Duvall Hecht and Jimmy Fifer. Photo: Wikipedia. 6 July 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn Göran R Buckhorn points you in another direction. While you will find some of...
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How I Burn
7 July 2020 By Philip Kuepper A turquoise silk sheet lay the sea a finger of wave drew across. Shone a sun too bright to look, directly, at the sheet, that, to the touch, I sensed hot, too hot for me...
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Upcoming Indoor and Coastal Championships
Photo: FISA/Igor Meijer 8 July 2020 In a press release, FISA, World Rowing, announces the towns and cities that will host World Indoor Championships and Coastal Championships and Beach Sprint Finals in...
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The other Henleys
Early morning waiting for the first crews – Henley Women’s Regatta 2018. 9 July 2020 By Daniel Walker After the unusual diversions of a Henley Royal Regatta that never was, I have returned to my...
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Ladies First
‘The Wet Dock, Ipswich’. Oil painting c.1842 by Claude Lorraine Richard Wilson Nursey (1816 – 1873). Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk, eastern England, set on the River Orwell, 65 miles north-east...
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Grounded in Memory
11 July 2020 By Philip Kuepper (for Michael) The indigo sea lies along the shore, oozes blue between rocks’ crevices. Pieces of boat lie split, splintered, to which seaweed clings like hands. What...
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150 Years Since the Death of Rowing Legend Harry Clasper
An early picture of Tyneside sculler and boat builder, Harry Clasper (1812 – 1870). 12 July 2020 Today is exactly 150 years ago the Tyneside sporting hero Harry Clasper died. On 12 July 1870, Harry...
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