'Hear The Boat Sing'

This blog covers all aspects of the rich history of rowing, as a sport, culture phenomena, a life style, and a necessary element to keep your wit and stay sane.

Monday, July 15, 2013

Tim Koch: Henley 2013 - The Prizewinners, Part I

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Some of the Henley Trophies . These are the winners of the Men’s and Women’s Open Events. Part II will show those victorious in t...

Sunday, July 14, 2013

World Cup III Results & Ebbesen gets the Thomas Keller Medal

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The World Cup III has now ended in Lucerne, Switzerland. FISA’s website offers race reports about the A- and B-finals. Read it here . At...

The Aquatic Silly Season?

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The 2013 Dogget’s near the start. Tim Koch writes from London, This is obviously the time of year for strange events on the Thames. As m...

Saturday, July 13, 2013

The gift of Mr. Thomas Doggett: Tim Koch on the 2013 ‘Coat & Badge’

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A past winner of the Doggett’s stands guard at Fishmongers’ Hall. In London on 1st August 1714 it was confidently proclaimed: THIS BEI...

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Friday, July 12, 2013

Viewing the 299th Coat and Badge

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The Doggett's Finish in 1869. HTBS's London correspondent Tim Koch writes, The 2013 Doggett’s Coat and Badge will take place t...

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Jerry Gardner: Well Done, Old Sport

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Jerry Gardner, writer and sports historian in Ireland (in the picture with Hurling's MacCarthy Cup), has just published a book on spor...

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Three Magazines

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Three magazines have recently been published, all with different articles connected to rowing. In the Penn Gazette , sport section (July 5, ...

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Oxford Caught in the Wake of Monsters University at HRR

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Olympic champion James Cracknell recruited an elite crew of Olympic heroes to form Monsters University Rowing Team and took on Oxford Uni...

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About HTBS

HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn: ‘Hear the Boat Sing’ (HTBS) was founded in 2009 by Göran R Buckhorn, a Swede living in Connecticut, a magazine editor, culture scribe and a rowing historian. In 1990, Göran co-founded the Swedish rowing magazine, “Svensk Rodd”, for which he is now a contributing editor. He has written numerous articles on rowing, and is one of the Directors of Friends of Rowing History and a member of BARJ, the British Association of Rowing Journalists. Regular contributors to HTBS are: rowing historians Tim Koch and Greg Denieffe, both in England; Hélène Rémond, France; and Philip Kuepper, Connecticut. Besides writing articles on The Boat Race, the Henley Royal Regatta, the Wingfield Sculls, and the Doggett’s Coat and Badge Race, Tim has made some rowing documentaries. He is also a Director of the Friends of Rowing History and a member of BARJ. Greg is an Irishman who specializes on Irish rowing. Some of his finest pieces are on HTBS. Hélène, who wrote her thesis on British rowing, has covered The Boat Race and the Henley Regatta for French papers and HTBS, also shooting beautiful photos for this blog. Philip’s poems on rowing have topics about everything between the daily life and the divine.

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