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Going Into Idleness
1 October 2020 Dear HTBS Readers, Since 1 March, we have posted at least one article per day. Between January and September 2020, HTBS has had 62,387 visitors and was viewed 156,598 times. What we must...
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Rowing the Bay of the Mind
4 October 2020 By Philip Kuepper The point of my pen whitecaps, with words, the bay of this page. They break against the margins. I row my boat of thought among them, whitecaps cutting, at times,...
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Reader’s Question: The Five ‘W’s and One ‘H’
7 October 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn Henry Law, of Manchester, England, sent a question to HTBS about an old photograph. Law is a member of a group on FaceBook called the Masters Rowing International....
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The Duke of Wellington: From Waterloo to Waterman
‘The New Randan’ is a cartoon by William Heath (d.1840) which has the helpful inscription ‘Published 21 July 1830 by T McLean, 26 Haymarket. Election Caricatures executed for Gentlemen in 3 Hours’....
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Riding Wakes
11 October 2020 By Philip Kuepper Two men stand still, in a still boat, on still water. I move, to the beat of their stillness. (22 July 2020)
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The Waterloo Veterans Who Rowed to London
A near run thing – the Coldstream Guards close the gates at Hougoumont after French troops broke in. 12 October 2020 By William O’Chee & Major Peter Le Marchand (Retired) Scots Guards Just before...
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The New CUBC: ‘The Best of the Old, with the Promise of the New’
Cambridge old and the new: 1829 and 2019. 13 October 2020 By Tim Koch In May, William O’Chee noted on HTBS that: There is a certain irony that the three representative rowing clubs at Cambridge...
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Dutch Domination at European Championships
One of the Netherland’s eight gold medals was won by (l.t.r.) Nicole Beukess, Olivia Van Rooijen, Inge Janssen and Laila Youssifou in the Women’s Quadruple Sculls. © Detlev Seyb/MyRowingPhoto.com 14...
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Adrian Stokes: A Happy Coincidence
The article writer’s 1949 Torpids tankard. “Wear them down!” 15 October 2020 By Adrian Stokes HTBS is excited to present the next installment in our series of show-and-tell. Adrian Stokes, Oxford Blue...
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A Fair Regatta
Lady sculling circa 1900. 16 October 2020 By John Schoonover While researching the history of rowing in Wilmington, Delaware, for a future HTBS post, I ran across a short, but fascinating article...
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The Spark of Inspiration
18 October 2020 By Philip Kuepper The heart of some boats is oak, of some, birch. Cedar goes into the making of others, and pine, still others. Is walnut ever used? I am unsure. Perhaps in the burled...
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Pairs and Double
A Ukrainian man photographed a dog, apparently a Staffordshire Terrier and German Shepherd cross, on the streets of Kiev. The comparison picture with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, was put on a...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
The Professor in His Boat 23 October 2020 By John Schoonover This illustration by Howard Pyle appeared in the second volume of Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Autocrat series published in 1882. In this...
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Adieu FISA – Hello World Rowing
The first FISA logo. 24 October 2020 Delegates from FISA, World Rowing, 73 members federations met over Zoom for the 2020 World Rowing Extraordinary Congress on 17-18 October. The delegates approved...
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The Shattered Sky
25 October 2020 By Philip Kuepper I. The tossed stone broke the stream, and turned reflection into a kaleidoscope. II. A rainbow wove its way through the stream, a thread of multi-colored wool. III....
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NF20
Pankhurst and Raffaele of Auriol Kensington put in their final few strokes at the COVID-19 compliant 2020 Pairs Head of the River. 26 October 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch on some antiviral rowing events....
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George Orwell: Books, Berks and Boaters
Eric Blair at Eton, c.1918. 28 October 2020 By Greg Denieffe In this article in The Dry Season Bottom-of-the-Barrel Series, Greg Denieffe takes a look at Eric Blair and Henley-on-Thames. The writer...
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The 2020 Wingfield Sculls: Following the Rule of Six
The 2015 Wingfield Sculls in Fulham Reach. 29 October 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch previews the Championship of the Thames. Providing that the technology can survive the heavy rain and ‘moderate’ 12 – 14...
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November 3rd: Who Will Be Rowed Up Salt River?
‘Rowing Him Up Salt River’, a cartoon from the 1848 U.S. Presidential Election. Picture: Library of Congress. 30 October 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch boats in brackish political waters. Not surprisingly,...
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The 2020 Wingfields: Six of the Best (Twice)
On 29 October, Matt Hayward became the 2020 Wingfield Sculls Champion and Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne became the 2020 Women’s Wingfields Champion. Matt, from Burton-on-Trent, represented Nottingham RC and...
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