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On HTBS: "The Moment of Epiphany", a poem by Philip Kuepper. heartheboatsing.com/2025/12/07/t...
The Moment of Epiphany
7 December 2025 By Philip Kuepper The rowers in their shellsI saw as rows of candles.They flamed! past, on the water.How like an altar, the river,and the sun, an acolyte,lighting the wick of each r…
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On HTBS: On the utter madness to row 200km on the ergometer in a month. heartheboatsing.com/2025/12/01/u...
Utter Madness!
1 December 2025 By Anonymous An over 55 chases 200km on the ergometer in a month. Like many during the pandemic, I was unable to get onto the water – nor even leave the house – and so I decided to …
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On HTBS: "All Souls, Null Isle", a poem by Philip Kuepper. heartheboatsing.com/2025/11/16/a...
All Souls, Null Isle
16 November 2025By Philip KuepperWhose ghosts are they who ghost the oars?The spirits of rowers past,who row through the rowers living,spirits who now dwellbetween the celestial and the earthborne,…
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On HTBS: "Surviving the Storm", a poem by Philip Kuepper. heartheboatsing.com/2025/11/09/s...
Surviving the Storm
Picture: theartofmorganmacdonald.com 9 November 2025 By Philip Kuepper What the rowers broughtwas the boat homethrough the complicityof wind and waves,waves that bit like teethat the shell,their wi…
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On HTBS: "Great River Race", a poem by Carlos Dominguez. heartheboatsing.com/2025/11/08/g...
Great River Race
The Great River Race, in 2023. Photo: Tim Koch 8 November 2025 By Carlos Dominguez The River Thames is London; the only landmark on the Tube map.A blue ribbon separating north from south.Forded by …
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On HTBS: "Article of Faith", a poem by Philip Kuepper. heartheboatsing.com/2025/11/03/a...
Article of Faith
3 November 2025 By Philip Kuepper They are a selective race,rowers. They arean elite. Will power alonemakes them so,the will power to becomefit, fit enoughto race, simplyto race to race.At bottom i…
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On HTBS: "Riverspeak", a poem by Philip Kuepper. heartheboatsing.com/2025/10/26/r...
Riverspeak
26 October 2025 By Philip Kiuepper The river said one thing,then, immediately,contradicted itself.This went on repeatedly.And repeatedly I gave uptrying to follow what it wassaying.I had thought to…
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On HTBS: For those who rowed in West London 40 years ago, William John Colley (1937–2025) was “Young Bill”, a sobriquet to differentiate him from his father, William Charles Colley (1902–1986), “Old Bill”, a waterman and lighterman for 60 years, Tim Koch writes. heartheboatsing.com/2025/10/21/y...
On HTBS: "The Flight Out: Bound for Malmö", a poem by Philip Kuepper. heartheboatsing.com/2025/10/19/t...
The Flight Out: Bound for Malmö
Photo: CPH 19 October 2025 By Philip Kuepper The vast fuselageis wrapped in sunlight,Christ-like, and the sunlightwrapped in blue sky.The plane lies on a planeof runway. It is positivelygeometric. …
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On HTBS (2 of 2): Edward H. Jones looks into the life of Jimmy Hamill after his rowing career was over. Hamill coached Yale freshman’s crew in 1873 and had an unusual fitness routine. Hamill had “running scrub races with every passing horse” – Horseplay! heartheboatsing.com/2025/10/18/p...
On HTBS (1 of 2): Edward H. Jones looks into the rowing career of James “Jimmy” Hamill (1838-1876). Edward writes: "In an era when rowing was America’s most popular spectator sport, no one was a better oarsman than a short and stocky glassblower from Pittsburgh." heartheboatsing.com/2025/10/17/p...
On HTBS: "Moving From Stillness", a poem by Philip Kuepper. heartheboatsing.com/2025/10/10/m...
Moving From Stillness
11 October 2025 By Philip Kuepper The rowers stood still,erect as a row of pines.They anchored the scenewith contained energy,while all around themflightiness ranged:the river, the woods, the town.…
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On HTBS: The Winklevoss Brothers Donate Record $6.5M to USRowing heartheboatsing.com/2025/10/10/t...
On HTBS: USRowing Medal of Honor Now the Anita DeFrantz Medal of Honor. heartheboatsing.com/2025/10/09/u...
USRowing Medal of Honor Now the Anita DeFrantz Medal of Honor
9 October 2025 USRowing has renames its highest honor as the Anita DeFrantz Medal of Honor. USRowing announced that its most prestigious recognition, formerly known as the Medal of Honor, will be …
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On HTBS: In a press release The National Rowing Foundation (NRF) announces the Class of 2025 National Rowing Hall of Fame® inductions. The ceremony will be at the NRF US Team Reunion Tent at the Head of the Charles Regatta on Saturday, October 18 at 4:00 PM. heartheboatsing.com/2025/10/07/c...
On HTBS: "Each Moment A Poem is Happening", a poem by Philip Kuepper. heartheboatsing.com/2025/10/05/e...
Each Moment A Poem is Happening
Photo: Stonington Crew Instagram 5 October 2025 By Philip Kuepper Glitter vests the entiretyof Mystic Riverthis sun-drowned September morning,on which vest sits pinned,like a brooch,a women’s…
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On HTBS: "Signing On For the Voyage", a poem by Philip Kuepper. heartheboatsing.com/2025/09/28/s...
Signing On For the Voyage
28 September 2025By Philip Kuepper I launch each word a crafton the lake of a poem,a craft strong enough to weatherwhatever the lake’s surfacewill deliver, from calm,to a sudden squall.A poem…
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On HTBS: Farewell River and Rowing Museum. We are sad to see you go. heartheboatsing.com/2025/09/22/j...
Journey’s End
Not any more. Sadly, Henley’s River and Rowing Museum (RRM) closed to the public on 21 September and has moved into a “mothballed” state to reduce the level of financial losses while the trustees a…
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On HTBS: "The Elevated Moment", a poem by Philip Kuepper. heartheboatsing.com/2025/09/21/t...
The Elevated Moment
21 September 2025 By Philip Kuepper Through the risen Mysticdrawbridge, this morning,passed the Flying Dutchman,passed the Fata Morgana.O!, what a sight!I couldn’t believe my eyes,though my m…
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On HTBS: In his essay “The Beaver and the Bird”, Edward H. Jones writes about three races between the Canadian professional sculling champion Edward “Ned” Hanlan and the American professional sculling champion Charles E. Courtney – a sculling rivalry mired in controversy.
The Beaver and the Bird
Three races, two oarsmen, and one sculling rivalry mired in controversy Canadian sculling champion Edward “Ned” Hanlan on left (“the Beaver”) and American sculling champion Charles E. Courtney on r…
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On HTBS: Ben Lowings writes about rowing a salmon seiner boat. Ben is a member of the Starcross Fishing and Cruising Club, which is a community-based sports and leisure club located on the western shores of the Exe Estuary in Starcross, south of Exeter in Devon. heartheboatsing.com/2025/09/16/r...
Rowing a Salmon Seiner – A Clunk or a Thunk?
A crew from the Starcross and Cruising Club. Photo courtesy of Scott Harrison-Jones (Click to enlarge.) 16 September 2025 By Ben Lowings*(text and drawings) Walking one afternoon down to the river,…
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On HTBS: Bill Miller writes about the Hillsdale RC Four, the Hillsdales, of Michigan, who out of nowhere became the 1879 National Amateur Champions. They continued their success the following years. However, they were ignored by the ARA when they went to England. heartheboatsing.com/2025/09/15/t...
On HTBS: "The Rower, Light" a poem by Philip Kuepper. heartheboatsing.com/2025/09/14/t...
The Rower, Light
14 September 2025 By Philip Kuepper Come morning, the worldlay scoured clean,bristle-brushed by the rainnight had witnessed fall.The docks dripped wet,and shone with a sheenlight looked at itself i…
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On HTBS: Part I - Tim Koch follows his 15th Coat and Badge, which was won by Coran Cherry from Globe Rowing Club. heartheboatsing.com/2025/09/12/d...
On HTBS: Anyone associated with rowing or boating in West London and the wider watermen’s community will be saddened to hear of the death, aged 83, of Chas Newens, ‘Chas the boat’. For many years Newens drove the umpire launch at the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. heartheboatsing.com/2025/09/10/f...
On HTBS: "The Act in the Quiet", a poem by Philip Kuepper. heartheboatsing.com/2025/09/07/t...
The Act in the Quiet
7 September 2025 By Philip Kuepper It is early.Other than the roweronly quiet is up.To the eye, the waterlies still. Water is never still.It will lie glacial in its movement,but never still.Shell t…
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On HTBS: Carlos Dominguez is a member of the gig rowing club, the River Teign Rowing Club, in south Devon in the UK. Carlos has written a poem, “Teign Spirit”, which reflects his love for gig rowing and the club. heartheboatsing.com/2025/09/04/t...
Teign Spirit
Gig rowing on the River Teign in south Devon, the UK. 4 September 2025 By *Carlos Dominguez Boats as old as industry.An imported Cornish history of coastal pilot gigs.Made real by the hard graft of…
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On HTBS: The next Library Rowing Book Talks at Leander Club will feature Olympian Tim Crooks, who will talk about his recently published "Driven by Demons: Bipolar Olympian". The talk will be on Thursday, 25 September at 7 – 9:30 p.m. heartheboatsing.com/2025/09/01/l...
Leander Library Book Talks: Olympian Tim Crooks
1 September 2025By Göran R Buckhorn Leander continues with the club’s popular Library Rowing Book Talks where authors come to talk about their rowing books. Next author coming up is Olympian Tim Cr…
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