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Saturday 10th June 2023: Penzance and Newlyn Pilot Gig Club trip to the Burnham on Sea gig Regatta

Early 4 am start on trip down to Burnham on sea Regatta. Met Steve and Jemima in Tesco car park for drive down to Burnham in Steve’s camper van 🚐. Took just under 4 hours and we met the rest of the pirate crew at Burnham on sea sailing club. Afterwards went to the localContinue reading “Saturday 10th June 2023: Penzance and Newlyn Pilot Gig Club trip to the Burnham on Sea gig Regatta”

Thursday 8th June: Quick Virtual WattBike ride on ROUVY Fréjus course

Quick 20 min virtual WattBike ride on the ROUVY Frejus course. Reminds me of the times I cycled on this route when I lived in Callian only 20km down the road. Used to get up at 5am and cycle 🚴 to Fréjus and back traversing lake St Casein and a few tasty hills. Sometimes temperaturesContinue reading “Thursday 8th June: Quick Virtual WattBike ride on ROUVY Fréjus course”

Monday 5th June 2023 : PNPGC Mens training forBurnham on Sea

Lovely sunny 😎 evening on a gig row out of Penzance Harbour. Very choppy but did a lot of racing practice with buoy turns, racing starts and stroke technique training for the Burnham weekend. Cox: Julie, 6: Jemima, 5: Steve, 4: Jonny, 3: Trevor, 2: Me, 1: Kevin. Few 🍻 in the Dock with TrevorContinue reading “Monday 5th June 2023 : PNPGC Mens training forBurnham on Sea”

Monday 1st June 2023: PNPGC Men’s Crew Training

First 6.5km gig row after 3 weeks in Ireland 🇮🇪. Did not start Garmin until well into the row: Cox: Julie, 6: Tina, 5: Emma, 4: Steve, 3: Trevor, 2: me, 1: Steve. Raced from Penzance harbour into Newlyn harbour and practiced a couple of buoy turns for the Burnham on Sea races on theContinue reading “Monday 1st June 2023: PNPGC Men’s Crew Training”

Wednesday 10th May: PNPGC Evening Race Training Row

Evening race training row forthcoming races that include buoys. Julie:Cox, Jemima:6, Chris:5, Jonny:4,Steve:3, Me:2,Alison:1. I swapped with Alison as she wanted to row in stroke her preferred side. Sea slightly choppy but good for racing and improving technique with drills to improve straight arms and lean back

Sunday 30th April 2023: last day open finals at 32nd World Pilot Gig Championships

As my races were over had a great day following the open women’s and men’s races. The day started foggy but for the final cleared up and was very sunny and warm. Coverack had a great result in the mens A who came second and womens A who came fifth. The younger B teams alsoContinue reading “Sunday 30th April 2023: last day open finals at 32nd World Pilot Gig Championships”

Saturday 29th April 2023: Day 3 Nut Rock race for Supervets

Morning still foggy but we hoped that things clear up. Coverack SV crew ready for action. We rowed out in the fog and lined up in our groups for the shorter 2.15km Nut Rock race. We were group B and waited for our group to come forward. We had a great start but somehow weContinue reading “Saturday 29th April 2023: Day 3 Nut Rock race for Supervets”