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#HRR19
is a wrap! Highlight:
@KingsCupHenley
and all it stood for 👏👏. Thank you
@HenleyRegatta
- you keep getting better and better.
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There are 5 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
Overheard in the boat tents: Day 1 Jet-lagged pep-talk from coach;
“So ten members of the world’s intellectual elite come 3,940 miles, and NOBODY brought a rigger-jigger?!”
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There are 358 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
#BlackMonday
- the day I (soberly) check and recheck how many sleeps there are until the next regatta, then still get an error pointed out by
@david_biddulph
… 😉
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It is Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
“When I see that you are straight and ready…”
📸 Snapper Ron
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There are 171 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
On a very cold day shooting their January calendar image, the photographer asks the boys if they could get away with sculling blades for the photo..
📸 Warwick Rowers
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There are 229 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2024.
#HRR24
Whatever you do, don’t ask AI to draw a race at HRR from the viewpoint of the umpires launch.
🫣
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𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟱 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯. #𝗛𝗥𝗥𝟮𝟯
Somewhere out there, there is a tailor in dire need of paracetamol and a lie down..
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There are 356 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2024.
#HRR24
Who needs a flag..?
Bodicea was one of the first umpire’s launches to be retrofitted with the Hastings 95mm short barrel howitzer, to encourage a better standard of steering. 👍
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There are 460 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2021.
#HenleyRoyalRegatta
#HRR21
Worth the wait. Stay safe.
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Thank you to the Stewards, staff, contractors and volunteers that again made a six day regatta a six day joy..
Congratulations to the winners, the qualifiers - and every entrant in this unique and brilliant event. History was made by all.
And the rain?
Never a problem. 👍
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There are 179 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2021.
#HenleyRoyalRegatta
#HRR21
Mental note: Check wellies for holes.. Still pretty wet out there.
📷 Francis Kocsis FB
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There are 365 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2024.
#HRR24
Someone told
@TeddiesRowing
it was warmer than the showers.. 😉
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There are 73 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
The distinctive blazers of the Pedestrian Crossing Appreciation Society at their annual HRR outing. 👍
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There are 357 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2025.
#HRR25
“It’s okay kids - I think they’ve gone…”
#BlackMonday
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There are 133 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
“So let me get this straight; it’s a white, bowside Smoothie, and you left it ‘out in the field’ somewhere..”
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It’s day 5 of Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
“She was very tall, the glance of her eye most fierce; her voice harsh.”
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There are 235 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
When two “highnesses” meet..
“Six feet three inches? My word! And what do you do? 😉”
Good luck and thanks to
@VickyThornleyGB
as she retires - we’ll miss your glamour, grace and grit. 💪🏻❤️
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There are 302 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
The final award has to be the “Outstanding Achievement Award.”
This one goes to all those who managed to deliver us an event..
To all at
@HenleyRegatta
- bravo. You pulled it off in style!
📸
@HenleyRegatta
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There are 218 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2024.
#HRR24
Christmas is just around the corner kids!!
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There is 1 sleep to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
That moment just before Starter’s Orders..
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There are 95 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
..and one sleep until
@EightsHead
!!
Good luck - remain calm - especially your coxes (see below!) and don’t forget the sunscreen!! ☀️
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There are 362 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2024.
#HRR24
Normal for downtown Henley during early regatta week.
😉
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There are 12 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
A reminder to all crews about the importance of matching kit - unless you’re a composite obviously, like these chaps: There’s wool, tweed AND twill in there. 🧐
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There will continue to be sleep until Henley Royal Regatta 2021. 🤞🏼
#HenleyRoyalRegatta
#HRR21
But forgive me - after 327 relentlessly optimistic tweets... ..I might just go back to bed.
😉
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And with the conclusion of racing, there are 317 sleeps* until Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
*𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘥𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯.
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There are 119 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
I bet this boatman has an orderly sock drawer. 😗
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There are 358 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2024.
#HRR24
Only at HRR: A passing US Olympian and Diamonds winner kindly offers to take a photo of you and your family..
😎
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There are 128 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
The manly “Eight Blade Challenge:” Seldom completed without at least one blade making a swivelling pitch for freedom - but saved here by a well-executed left-handed reach-over.
Exceptional form.
📸
@rowfairies
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There are 191 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
R.I.P. Robin. Sometimes the water runs far too fast.
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There are 149 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2024.
#HRR24
😳🤔
At what point would it be viable to wire this lot up to the power grid,
@UW_Rowing
..?
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There are 461 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭.
#HenleyRoyalRegatta
#HRR21
HRR raise the red flag: It’s all off for 2020.. See you next year!
#RightCall
📷
@HenleyRegatta
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It’s day 3 of Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
@DoncasterRC
made quite the media splash yesterday: Daily Mail, BBC, ITV, Beano, Twinkle, and the Sunday Times Beard Oil Supplement. 📸👍
Even when it was cloudy, these boys brought the sun. 😎
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There are 41 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
An HRR mystery: After hitting the booms on Friday whilst leading, no one saw Charles the cox ever again…
Pictured: The rest of Charles’ crew make the best of it on Saturday morning with a hearty 55kg picnic hamper.
🤔
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There are 2 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
A favourite to get you in the mood, with the inspirational coxing of
@RoryCopus
.. A modicum of fruity language may be heard.. 😉
HRR 2009 QF - Abingdon vs. Belmont Hill via
@YouTube
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There are 101 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
It’s
@EightsHead
day!!
A day of spectacle and peak athleticism. A day when legends are born. But above all, a day when the limits of bladder capacity are tested whilst marshalling. 🚻 🫣
Race well!
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There are 320 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2021.
#HenleyRoyalRegatta
#HRR21
Wow: What’s the maximum number of rowing affiliations you’ve seen on a single HRR attendee? Top professional stripe-guru
@richardphelpsie
shows us how it’s done. 👍
📷
@boatsing
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There are 345 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
Remember: Rowing is a majestic, refined sport for distinguished athletes - none more so than our noble Olympians.
Here’s a historic picture of four of them to inspire you. 👍 😉
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There are 64 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
“Hey Siri; show me plucky but doomed British optimism in a picture…”
😉
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There are 165 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
Busy schedules: After a long night crapping on the Upper Thames landing stage, it’s gridlock as the Henley geese commute upstream to their day job, crapping on the Henley RC pontoons.
📸
@paterson_ron
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There are 2 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
One of my favourite times: Late in the day when the sun dips low and the water turns the boats turn into glass..
❤️
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There are 187 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
Dawn, and with the reflection of the full moon in the river behind them the boys whip out their rigger-jiggers and make sure their nuts are tight before taking to the water.
🫣
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There are 132 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
A timeless quirk of HRR physics still unexplained: Ambient temperature 34C. Inside tents 38C. Showers 0.01 degrees above absolute zero.
Neither Einstein nor Hawking had a theory for that one. 🤔
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There are 101 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2024.
#HRR24
The smell of isotonic drink and malt loaf hangs heavy on the Thames.. Roads are rigid with rented Transits towing boat trailers.. There’s a 30% chance of hail..
It must be
@EightsHead
day!!
Race well!
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There are 4 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
“To heads..”
The sub-six foot bowman’s boat-handling dilemma, capably illustrated here by
@ReadingBlues
.. 😉
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There are 39 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2024.
#HRR24
It’s
#NSR2024
!
The next and next, next generation of Olympians will be flaunting their youth. fitness and relative lack of mass, inertia and momentum today and all weekend at
@Dorney_Lake
so be there..!
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There are 356 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2021.
#HenleyRoyalRegatta
#HRR21
Spare a thought for those river users who had the place to themselves, and are still adapting to all these rower-types suddenly emerging from their enforced isolation.. 😉
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There are 357 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
🧵 A six day regatta from a different perspective..
Tuesday: “I can’t believe I’m getting paid for this..”
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There are 34 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
Members of “Just Grab the First Thing in Your Kit Bag RC” return to the pontoons after their first round race.
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There are 176 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
Rod Stewart attends HRR with his mum, who suddenly realises the fate of her missing bed sheets..
📸 Snapper Ron
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There are 97 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
SSR raises an eyebrow as he finds out that the oldest ever Olympic competitor was 72…
“So you mean.. I still have time in hand?”
A very happy (significant) birthday to the Chairman!!
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There are 115 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
“Well the online advert used the word ‘Realistic…’”
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There are 306 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
Thursday, just before lunch,
@richardphelpsie
managed to quietly officiate on a race dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow.
For this scurvy feat the “Umpire Cosplay Cup” goes home with him!! 👍
📷 Tim Koch/
@boatsing
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There are 52 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
Bladders must have been bigger in the old days.. 🤔
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There are 245 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
Henley Bridge, 1870; Already over a hundred years old in this photo, and much else is familiar - including the capsized squad sculler shouting at the high-wash pleasure cruiser just out of shot. 🧐
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There are 26 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
Competitive Dad Charles goes afloat in the “Generational Pair” event…
“Look son, if you don’t keep a good grip with your outside hand, obviously I’m going to pull you round..”
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𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏.
#HenleyRoyalRegatta
#HRR21
Thank you to all who made this happen, and good luck to all those entering that daunting, boomed arena of dreams.
“When I see that you are straight and ready….”
📷
@FinlayPhoto
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There are 245 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
Another little known fact; upon retirement, one of the things
@matthewcpinsent
used to physically de-train was pole-dancing.
Here, out of frame, he warms up those oh-so-critical hip adductors to a little Celine Dion..
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There are 312 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
Our next Unofficial HRR Award is for the “Aspirational Village People Tribute Challenge Fours” and goes to
@ULBC
: A truly great “Y” but marked down marginally for the “M-C-A”.
Winners.
📷
@HenleyRegatta
FB
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There are 309 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
That feeling when you’re 10 out, it’s looking good - and you know exactly where the photographers are..
Recipient of the 2021 silver “Say ‘Cheese’ Platter” is
@ShiplakeRowing
JW4x!! 😉👍
Top 📷 from Tim Koch/
@boatsing
!
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There are 65 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
We bring you the science that matters here at Sleeps HQ..
We can confirm that attaching helium balloons to your racing eight reduces water displacement by 0.0003%.
Air resistance is however increased by 1250%.
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There are 235 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2024.
#HRR24
Tuesday, down the towpath a bit and Jen “I just like the sound of the cork” Bartram thinks about making it an even 10..
📸
@JenBartram
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There are 115 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
Disbelief and frustration on the towpath as an
@abingdonrowing
group hit by chino thieves in broad daylight try to find mobile reception to call the police…
📸
@rowfairies
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There are 315 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
(Unofficial) HRR award time: Olympic champion, HRR winner, and now crowned “Best Beard of HRR 2021” - arise
@PaulO_Donovan
- another award to take back to
@skibbrowing
🥇
📷
@jfmaiken
👍
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SSR asks - at what point does a blazer cease to be a blazer..?
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There are 34 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
Crocpox?
Rethinking my stance on socks with sliders..
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They think it’s all over.. ..it is now.
Thank you to the Stewards, staff, contractors and volunteers that made a six day regatta a six day joy..
Congratulations to the winners, the qualifiers - ALL the entrants in this unique and brilliant event.
And the big duck as well. 😉
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There are 18 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
That moment you arrive at the training venue and wonder if the afternoon crosswind might be a problem..
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There are 311 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
The “Demonstration Start Hokey-Cokey Cup for Umpires” clinched for 2021 by
@guinbatten
- showing her signature “right arm in”.
That’s what it’s all about.
📷 Tim Koch & Hear the Boat Sing
@boatsing
👍
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There are 238 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
“Siri, show me what’s special about rowing in one photo..”
📸 Tim Koch/
@Boatsing
capturing a magic moment with
@SPSRowing
.
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There are 54 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2024.
#HRR24
Meanwhile, down in the corporate enclosures..
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There are 180 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
Members of “One Red Sock Left in the Washing Machine” Boat Club make their way over the bridge in their traditional white blazers.
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There are 89 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2022.
#HRR22
The clocks have changed to summer time, the head season is over, it’s 3 months to HRR - and so of course it’s currently snowing in Henley. 🥶
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There are 194 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2023.
#HRR23
In 2002 a printing error led to the insertion of the Stewards’ Enclosure dress code into the Overseas Crew information pack.
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There are 422 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2021.
#HenleyRoyalRegatta
#HRR21
The early spectators get the pitch.. A still morning, heat building already.. ❤️
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