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Rowing the Waters of Democracy
1 November 2020 By Philip Kuepper A butter yellow rowboat lay next a cobalt blue one, anchoring the autumn scene of scarlet and gold taking flights in falls of leaves, everywhichway. The bones of the...
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Rowing on the Grand Union Canal in the 1960s
A Tideway Scullers School coxed four on the Grand Union Canal in 1967 – with Stephen Wise’s grandfather’s timber yard in the background. The crew were: Bow W. Smith, 2 S. McCowan, 3 R. Tollman, Stroke...
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Sam Mackenzie (1936 – 2020): Larrikin and Oarsman
The great Australian sculler, Stuart Alexander ‘Sam’ Mackenzie, has died, aged 84, in Somerset, England, after a long illness. Here, he is pictured training for the Diamonds at Henley in 1960. His...
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Technical Issues Reading HTBS on your Phone?
Some readers have experienced ‘cut’ pictures in HTBS articles while reading them on their phones. Is there a solution? 7 November 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn, editor of HTBS It has come to my attention...
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D.D.
My great-grandfather, Chief Petty Officer Stoker Thomas Davies, HMS “Indefatigable”, killed at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. The discharge section of his service record is simply marked ‘DD’, a...
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The Unquiet Australian
A 21-year-old Sam Mackenzie pictured in 1958. 9 November 2020 By Chris Dodd Chris Dodd remembers Stuart ‘Sam’ Mackenzie. Standing out among the many achievements of Stuart ‘Sam’ Mackenzie, who has...
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The 13-Year-Old Boy with an Olympic Coxless Pairs Medal
A Silver Medal from the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. 10 November 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch has posted Fake News. I always assumed that Sir Tim Berners-Lee was a man that you could trust. The Queen has...
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Richard Henry Dana III: An American Oarsman in England – Part I
Being Introduced in England Writer, diarist and oarsman Richard Henry Dana, III. 11 November 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn Richard Henry Dana, III, graduated from Harvard in 1874 and then began studying at...
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Richard Henry Dana III: An American Oarsman in England – Part II
Oxford “Tom Brown at Oxford” by T[homas] Hughes, first published in serial form in “Macmillan’s Magazine” in 1859. Then the story was published as a two-volume book in 1861. This image is from the...
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Richard Henry Dana III: An American Oarsman in England – Part III
Cambridge, Henley & London The River Cam with a view from the Backs to Clare College and King’s Chapel. Christian Richardt, 2004. 13 November 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn Here follows the third and...
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Not the 1873 Boat Race
“Boat-Raceana” by artist John Gordon Thomson (1841-1911) and engraver Thomas Dalziel (1823-1906), published in “Fun” on 12 March 1873. Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A....
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The Longing to Row
15 November 2020 By Philip Kuepper I pass, each day, a purple rowboat lying upside down on a grassy embankment, just beyond the reach of the tide, however high it rises. (14 November 2020)
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Crossing the Line
Artist Charles Robinson’s view of the ‘Dead Heat’ Boat Race of 1877 in progress, the only race in the event’s long history in which such a verdict has been given. Whether Robinson was actually present...
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The Perfect Christmas Gift
17 November 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn The Oarsmen by Scott Patterson has been shortlisted for a prestigious literary prize in Australia. The other day, it was announced on social media that Scott...
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What’s in a Name?
Jane Kingsbury is doing the honours baptising King’s College Boat Club’s new eight, “The Ingenious Burglar”, 1972. 18 November 2020 By Jane Kingsbury Jane Kingsbury, co-author of Cambridge University...
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Brawn v Brains
Detail from ‘Boat-Raceana’ published in “Fun” on 12 March 1873. The implication seems to be that sport is detrimental to study and that the two are incompatible for a student. Image: Suzy Covey Comic...
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The 2020 HOCR Remote Global Event
2020 Head of the Charles Global Rowing Event© Head of the Charles 20 November 2020 By Larry Fogelberg Those of us who regularly follow the Head of the Charles Regatta – the thousands who have competed...
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Rowing Early Late in the Season
22 November 2020 By Philip Kuepper (For Michael) The whole of the marsh lay a vast taper lit, when first light touched its flame to it, a tray of votive light lit to keep alive the memories of the...
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The 1937 Oxford Crew at Ranelagh
After one of Oxford’s first outings on the Thames for the 1937 Boat Race. From left to right: M.G.C. Ashby (bow), J.S. Lewes (president, 2), J.D. Sturrock (6), R.G. Rowe (4), D.R.B. Mynors (3), A.B....
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Celebrity Squares (and Feathers)
Some of the contestants in the recent television ‘celebrity challenge’ show, ‘Don’t Rock The Boat’. Picture: ITV. 24 November 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch sympathises with the view that television is...
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