'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, March 17, 2014

Stout for Sportsmen

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Tim Koch writes: Today, 17 March, is St. Patrick’s Day and many people, Sons of Erin or not, will mark this solemn religious occasion b...

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Sunday, March 16, 2014

WHoRR 2014 - some views from Hammersmith

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Going to the start. Tim Koch writes: A press release issued by the organisers before the 2014 Women’s Head of the River Race started: ...

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Sunday CUBC v Molesey BC Race

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A photograph from a last year Boat Race fixture at Putney Embankment. Tomorrow, Sunday 16 March, there will be another Boat Race fixture...

Friday, March 14, 2014

Rowboat

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Rowboat On the glass-calm water he left his boat drift where it would. He slept in the late afternoon sunlight. No bee droned. The...

Thursday, March 13, 2014

No light Blues – the Boat Race Crews weigh-in

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The traditional challenge from the previous year’s losers. Tim Koch writes: The BNY Mellon Boat Race and the Newton Women’s Boat Race ...

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

HTBS 5 Years Anniversary with Luncheon

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Five years ago, on this date, the first blog post on ‘Hear The Boat Sing’, popularly known as HTBS, appeared on the web. Some 1,540-ish ...

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Battles with the Blues

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Tim Koch writes: The Oxford and Cambridge Tideway fixture season is in full swing with the men’s and women’s Blue Boats taking on various ...

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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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