diff --git a/package/CHANGELOG b/package/CHANGELOG
index 9ea1ea3ff63..eb802a67c90 100644
--- a/package/CHANGELOG
+++ b/package/CHANGELOG
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ Enhancements
   * introduce the water bridge analysis module (PR #1722)
   * Universe.add_TopologyAttr now accepts strings to add a given attribute
     to the Universe (Issue #1092, PR #1186)
+  * Fix py3 compatibility regarding the HydrogenBondAnalysis.save_table()
+    (Issue #1743, PR #1744)
 
 Deprecations
   * HydrogenBondAnalysis detect_hydrogens=heuristic is marked for deprecation in 1.0
diff --git a/package/MDAnalysis/analysis/hbonds/hbond_analysis.py b/package/MDAnalysis/analysis/hbonds/hbond_analysis.py
index 253e6ca3d7b..de5c1dfe2f5 100644
--- a/package/MDAnalysis/analysis/hbonds/hbond_analysis.py
+++ b/package/MDAnalysis/analysis/hbonds/hbond_analysis.py
@@ -1194,7 +1194,7 @@ def save_table(self, filename="hbond_table.pickle"):
         """
         if self.table is None:
             self.generate_table()
-        with open(filename, 'w') as f:
+        with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
             cPickle.dump(self.table, f, protocol=cPickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
 
     def _has_timeseries(self):