10 May 2024 In a press release USRowing announced yesterday that the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) named USRowing’s Ellen Minzner the 2023 Paralympic Coach of the Year for her work with the U.S. Para national team. The award was selected by an independent selection panel of coaching and sport education professionals.  Ellen Minzner is the third woman in history to receive the award and the first high performance USRowing coach to be honored with a USOPC coaching award. Minzner was a Para national team coach from 2013 to 2018 and was elevated to the USRowing’s Para High ..read more

The King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery (RHA), enters London’s Green Park at the start of one of the ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Coronation. Picture: HQ London District Facebook. 9 May 2024 By Tim Koch One of Tim Koch’s rowing free but military ceremonial heavy posts. The 6th May saw the first anniversary of The Coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla and the British Army marked the event with ceremonial gun salutes in London in Green Park and at the Tower of London, and also in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland; Cardiff Castle, Wales; Hillsborough Castle, Northern ..read more

The three men in their boat and the dog. A famous silhouette printed in many of the British and American editions of Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), which was first published in 1889. 7 May 2024 By Göran R Buckhorn An older version of this article once appeared on rowing historian Bill Miller’s website Friends of Rowing History. The following updated version in two parts has some interesting information that has emerged since the first version was published. It puts a new light on Constance MacEwen’s novel Three Women in One Boat (1891) as MacEwen was married to a sculling sta ..read more

“Are you calling me a lyre?” A fresco recently uncovered at Pompeii depicting the Greek God, Apollo, attempting to seduce the Trojan priestess, Cassandra. She was clearly not impressed – though nobody believed her. 6 May 2024 By Tim Koch Tim Koch is Roman around. News that stunning frescos have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in a volcanic eruption from Mount Vesuvius in AD79, reminded me of some other Roman wall paintings, ones of interest to HTBS Types. They were produced around one hundred years after Vesuvius and were found on the via La P ..read more

5 May 2024 By Philip Kuepper A rower’s blades sculpt the marble of the water, a sculpture that disappears the instant it is finished. In the making of their art is its unmaking, every stroke a masterpiece seen only in a passing flash of recognition. (13 April 2024 ..read more

Ted Nash, in 1972. 1 May 2024 In a statement on USRowing’s website on Tuesday, the organization reveals the results of the law firm Shearman & Sterling’s 16-month investigation of Jennifer Fox’s claims that she had been sexually abused as a 13-year-old by the late rowing coach Ted Nash in 1973, when he was 40. Ted Nash won two Olympic medals: a gold medal in the coxless four in 1960 and a bronze medal in the coxless four in 1964. He was also a nine-time Olympic coach for the United States.  In USRowing’s statement it says that “Having reviewed the investigation’s findings, USRow ..read more

1 May 2024 USRowing announced in a press release that the organization has signed an exclusive video streaming partnership with Overnght to deliver high-quality content and viewing experiences for both rowing fans and a broader sport audience. The new, first-of-its-kind agreement for USRowing will see all hosted regattas streamed live on the platform, starting with this weekend’s Southwest Youth Championships and Central Youth Championships.  “We’re excited to make Overnght the new home of USRowing regatta and event video content. Their platform is host to a catalog of hig ..read more

30 April 2024 By Philip Kuepper One thing the rower knows to be a certainty. Rowing capsized is an impossibility. (13 April 2024 ..read more

The Island Challenge Cup 29 April 2024 By Chris Morrell Chris Morrell M.B.E., rowing coach at The Windsor Boys’ School, tells the story of his father, Charles Morrell Morell, and his exploits during the two World Wars and his rowing life as a member of Thames Rowing Club. Chris Morrell presented a splendid silver rose bowl, The Island Challenge Cup, for student women’s eight as an equivalent to The Temple Challenge Cup, for student men’s eight, to Henley Royal Regatta. The trophy was first competed for at the regatta in 2021. The bowl is more than one hundred years old and was presented to my ..read more

28 April 2024 By Philip Kuepper The boat brought an aura of mystery with it. The harbormaster had not been alerted to its approach. Anchorage, at best, was haphazard in the crowded harbor. Slips were thin on the ground. The boat was not one to catch the eye, and when it did appear, disappeared among the other boats. When it dropped anchor, it faded from sight. It had bled into the scene. It was as though it wasn’t there. The harbor lay calm, so calm that when a seagull standing on a piling turned its head, the whole of the scene appeared to shift. A whistle, I could not determine from where ..read more