PNPGC took a men’s and Ladies team to Poole for the 5 Islands – Gig Race organized by Poole Gig Club. The race was canceled on Saturday due to storms, so our amazing Captain Julie had to rearrange scratch teams as some people could not make Saturday due to other arrangements including work. Some of the crews all met up Kings Charles pub in Poole and went for a curry
I went out with Jacqueline and our friend Viv who we were staying with over the weekend to the Rockfish restaurant to say thank you. Next day we all met up in Hamworthy Park in Poole. The day schedule was as follows:
The layout of Poole Harbour was outline in the picture below
Our lovely boat 🚣♀️ Morladron Varthy (Cornish for Amazing Pirates) was ready and waiting for our men’s and women’s pirate 🏴☠️ crews
We prepared the boat for launching from the harbour beach before going for breakfast at the cafe – mine was a bacon bap.
We were the first with others following
The first men’s race was the 9km round two islands. The crew was Cox :Andy 6: Bill 5: Stuart, 4: Steve, 3: Trevor, 2: Phil, 1: me. Great stroke rate and good race in our heat against 8 boats. We came 4th and pleased with that as the youngest was 52 and the rest in late 60s around 30 to 40 years older than most other crews. See route below with my strava of the whole journey including 1.5 km rowing out to start.
Here is the crew and pictures of us rowing 🚣♀️ which is also included later
The Women’s long 7km race was next with Cox: Andy, 6: Jemima, 5: Julie, 4: Judy , 3: Shirley , 2: Alison 1: Kerry. The route 7km women’s route was as follows:
The Women’s Team below
The next race was our 2km Sprint race which was from the Island 2 km away. The route was as follows:
This was more of a Sprint race and again we beat 3 other boats with good stroke rate and again pleased with this. My Strava is below that just before we actually started racing. The row out was 2.5 km and slower but gave us time to home in on our technique
Some fantastic photos of our crews racing were taken by G+B Gig Photography and as a photographer myself were excellent
We came away with some good results and a lot of knowledge about racing in other regattas. The full results are on the board below
We did not do the mixed race as it was a Sunday and we had to get the boat ready on the trailer to go back to Penzance with Rich and Julie. Thank you to Poole Gig Club did a great job in organising this unique regatta in difficult circumstances in view of the Saturday having been canceled due to storms
CAMTRIER 