After a season with everyone mistakenly thinking they were sponsored by an Italian cheese manufacturer, the crew finally finds out it’s actually a luxury Swiss watchmaker.
📸 @britishrowing.bsky.social
After a season with everyone mistakenly thinking they were sponsored by an Italian cheese manufacturer, the crew finally finds out it’s actually a luxury Swiss watchmaker.
📸 @britishrowing.bsky.social
(Ten minutes earlier..)
“Did we bump them?”
“I THINK so..”
“Well make sure - let’s do another big 10..”
📸 Oxford Rowing Services
(Ten minutes earlier..)
“Did we bump them?”
“I THINK so..”
“Well make sure - let’s do another big 10..”
📸 Oxford Rowing Services
“Seriously..?”
Charles was surprised that wearing an HRR bow tie upside-down could be reason for a steward to take his membership number..
“Seriously..?”
Charles was surprised that wearing an HRR bow tie upside-down could be reason for a steward to take his membership number..
The new AIOs of @Tyne_Rowing unexpectedly caused bar code reading errors in bars up and down the enclosure as they rowed by… 🫣
📸 Tim Koch/ @heartheboatsing.bsky.social
The new AIOs of @Tyne_Rowing unexpectedly caused bar code reading errors in bars up and down the enclosure as they rowed by… 🫣
📸 Tim Koch/ @heartheboatsing.bsky.social
HRR regulations require that in temperatures over 28C Enclosure Stewards should be within easy reach of fire extinguishers in case any members with 1970s blazers of high synthetic fibre content burst into flames.
HRR regulations require that in temperatures over 28C Enclosure Stewards should be within easy reach of fire extinguishers in case any members with 1970s blazers of high synthetic fibre content burst into flames.
“Why do people keep calling me Ned?” wondered Charles..
📸 © Benedict Tufnell / HRR
“Why do people keep calling me Ned?” wondered Charles..
📸 © Benedict Tufnell / HRR
That moment the little known common grazing rights for the regatta site became an issue for the first time since 1839..
That moment the little known common grazing rights for the regatta site became an issue for the first time since 1839..
Intriguing “often bought together” option on Amazon.. It’s a proper chicken/egg conversation…
🤔😉
Intriguing “often bought together” option on Amazon.. It’s a proper chicken/egg conversation…
🤔😉
Charles attempted a Mexican Wave to raise morale..
📸 Tim Koch/ @heartheboatsing.bsky.social
Charles attempted a Mexican Wave to raise morale..
📸 Tim Koch/ @heartheboatsing.bsky.social
The new @MoleseyBoatClub onesie should be available for Christmas gift purchase.
🤨
Looks cosy.
The new @MoleseyBoatClub onesie should be available for Christmas gift purchase.
🤨
Looks cosy.
Rarely caught on camera: The moment a new single scull is produced by binary carbon fibre fission, and makes for the water.
Miraculous.
Rarely caught on camera: The moment a new single scull is produced by binary carbon fibre fission, and makes for the water.
Miraculous.
Following a misspoken command from Cox, the crew tried “hands-free” rowing for the first and last time..
Following a misspoken command from Cox, the crew tried “hands-free” rowing for the first and last time..
The traditional HRR luncheon water choices: Still, sparkling, or torrential.
📸 @ronpaterson.bsky.social
The traditional HRR luncheon water choices: Still, sparkling, or torrential.
📸 @ronpaterson.bsky.social
With coach still in bed, Charles called to seek advice for the morning UT2 session; “Look, even if technically it IS ‘flat water’ I’m not sure it’s going to work…”
With coach still in bed, Charles called to seek advice for the morning UT2 session; “Look, even if technically it IS ‘flat water’ I’m not sure it’s going to work…”
Disgruntlement at the Autumn rowing camp..
“We’ve been walking for TEN MINUTES..”
“Well the brochure did say it was ‘gently shelving’ boating access.”
Disgruntlement at the Autumn rowing camp..
“We’ve been walking for TEN MINUTES..”
“Well the brochure did say it was ‘gently shelving’ boating access.”
The slight misunderstanding about the “vents” he wanted in his new blazer turned out to be fortuitous, when temperatures at the regatta the following year hit 32 degrees..
The slight misunderstanding about the “vents” he wanted in his new blazer turned out to be fortuitous, when temperatures at the regatta the following year hit 32 degrees..
Charles’s opportunistic repurposing of the trestle backfired when a visually-impaired crew accidentally started de-rigging his jeans..
📸 Robert Treharne-Jones
Charles’s opportunistic repurposing of the trestle backfired when a visually-impaired crew accidentally started de-rigging his jeans..
📸 Robert Treharne-Jones
Belated congratulations on a richly deserved appointment, Annamarie - or “Veep” as we shall now know you!
👏
www.britishrowing.org/2025/09/anna...
Belated congratulations on a richly deserved appointment, Annamarie - or “Veep” as we shall now know you!
👏
www.britishrowing.org/2025/09/anna...
Trying to rationalise the countless “lost” days of the regatta drinking in Bridge Bar, Charles wore 10 years of Stewards badges just in case he’d discovered time travel and had difficulty with subsequent readmission.
Trying to rationalise the countless “lost” days of the regatta drinking in Bridge Bar, Charles wore 10 years of Stewards badges just in case he’d discovered time travel and had difficulty with subsequent readmission.
As coach arrived, Charles’s request for a chainsaw to “finish rigging the boat” started to make sense.
As coach arrived, Charles’s request for a chainsaw to “finish rigging the boat” started to make sense.