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No Loss in Translation
21 March 2021 By Philip Kuepper Winter muffles noise outdoors. The cold swallows echoes. It is as if act is axed as it’s being acted. The wood is split, the nail, hammered. The boat is being built,...
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The Winner Takes It All
Breaking up is never easy, I know. Menu for the NARA Winding-Up Dinner following the merger with the ARA. Picture: River & Rowing Museum Collection. 22 March 2021 By Greg Denieffe Greg Denieffe...
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Alf: The Twinn Who Was One Of A Kind
Alfred Charles Twinn (1915 – 1990) started as an apprentice boatman at Cambridge University Boat Club in 1930 when he was 14 and officially retired as head boatman aged 68 in 1983. Before Boat Race...
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No European Junior Championships In May
24 March 2021 In an announcement the other day, World Rowing wrote that the 2021 European Rowing Junior Championships in Munich, Germany, will not be held in May, but maybe in September. Following the...
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Bernhard von Gaza: Olympian, Champion Sculler, Writer and Soldier
Bernhard von Gaza, 1881–1917 By Göran R Buckhorn 25 March 2021 Many of the oarsmen who competed in the 1900s and 1910s lost their lives in the Great War. Here Göran R Buckhorn remembers one of them,...
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In Ely-sian Fields
In Greek mythology, the ‘Elysian Fields’ were the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous. On 4 April 2021, the fields of Ely will witness the certainly heroic and possibly...
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The 2021 Australian Championships
View of Lake Barrington. Photo: Rowing Australia 26 March 2021 By Louis Petrin Sadly, many regattas are being cancelled around the world so if you need a fix, the Australian Rowing Championships are...
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Yes, But What Do They Actually Do?
The Cambridge cox sporting a Ladbrokes top during a training outing in 1980, with Hugh Laurie at 6. 27 March 2021 By Robert Treharne Jones Robert Treharne Jones has been taking a press man’s look at...
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Yes, But What Do They Actually Spend It On?
In 1910, the Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race was an event by – and for – gentlemen amateurs. However, there was still concern about the costs of putting it on. 28 March 2021 By Tim Koch Tim Koch says,...
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Two’s A Crowd…
This shot of the Head of the River Race in 2016 shows three things that would not be allowed in 2021: A crowd of people – standing on Hammersmith Bridge – while boats go under it. Imagine! 29 March...
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Tragedy on Little Wall Lake
29 March 2021 One student died and one is missing after a boat with five members from Iowa State University rowing club capsized Sunday morning on Little Wall Lake, two miles south of Jewell in...
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Love’s Lament
30 March 2021 By Philip Kuepper Off season,his oar of passion rowsthe body of his love.He gives delight.He gives happiness. Come the season,all his passion is spentin the boaton the bodyof water. (28...
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Banner Rowing Club for Women: Perpetuating Interest in Rowing in Minneapolis
Women of Minneapolis master the Yarra Yarra stroke. 31 March 2021 By Sarah Risser On the last day of Women’s History Month, Sarah Risser writes about the Y.W.C.A.’s Banner Rowing Club for Women in...
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I Remember Larry Gluckman
Larry Gluckman passed away yesterday, Tuesday, aged 75. Photo: RowPerfect. 31 March 2021 By Bill Miller Rowing historian Bill Miller* writes about his friend Larry Gluckman, who died yesterday, 30...
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Q&A: Bill Lanouette on The Triumph of the Amateurs
The cover of Bill Lanouette’s book The Triumph of the Amateurs, showing “The Biglin Brothers Racing” by Thomas Eakins. 1 April 2021 Interview by Göran R Buckhorn Today, rowing historian William ‘Bill’...
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The Boat Race of ’21: Two Days to go, a Hundred Years Gone
The Oxford – Cambridge Men’s and Women’s Blue Boat Races of 2021 will take place on 4 April. One hundred years ago, the Boat Race of 1921 took place on 30 March. 2 April 2021 By Tim Koch Tim Koch...
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River & Rowing Museum Awarded Culture Recovery Fund Due to COVID
2 April 2021 In a press release from this morning, the River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames announced that the Museum has been awarded vital support from the British Government’s Culture...
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Should the Boat Race Rowers Worry About Gemini?
Gemini is the 2021 Boat Race sponsor, or as it’s also called, Principal Partner. 3 April 2021 By Hugh Matheson Hugh Matheson Hugh Matheson rowed for Oxford in the 1969 Boat Race. He competed in three...
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Boat Race Reminder
The start near the Prickwillow aka Queen Adelaide Road Bridge. 4 April 2021 Today it’s the Boat Races between Oxford’s and Cambridge’s men and women. The events will be broadcast live on BBC One from...
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The Race, Never Ending
4 April 2021 By Philip Kuepper Even before the start,I rooted for Oxford,not in opposition to Cambridge,but for a reason, wholly sentimental,having once toured Christ’s,with Michael, and...
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