Friday 2nd May 2025: Vets, Supervets and Masters races

The race for the vets men’s was the first race after the ladies but before the Supervets which is the race at where our ladies were participating. The first race was St Agnes followed by the Nutrock. See the distance below

The first St Agnes placing race was longer and the crew consisted of Cox : Ken (Pothleven), 6: Steve, 5: James, 4: Anthony, 3: Barry (Coverack) 2: Me, 1: Duncan ( Mount’s Bay) . Good race and conditions good for rowing but difficult as Antony’s stretcher broke. Race info

We rowed it to the start and then raced but slower than normal with the broken stretcher

The main NutRock race for the final followed

We had a good race against vault and did a lot better with the repaired stretcher. The results are as below, so we beat 3 boats.

It would have been nice if we could have had a Supervets or Masters crew. The ladies Supervets team did well. Some photos below. Was looking forward to the next day but found out that my Fudgey boy had died so got the last ferry ⛴️ out on Saturday. Looking forward to next year and perhaps can stay and for the whole 3 days.

Unfortunately this was the day my lovely Fudgey boy died and ended my Scillies participation and found out the morning after.

Thursday 1st May 2025: Travel to Scillies for World Championships on early ⛴️

Program for the rowing for two days and got the 6.15 ferry ⛴️ from Penzance to St Mary’s and met up with some of the team

After landing we went up to the Garrison campsite to set up tents. Also went to see the boat at Pothmellon beach near the gig shed cafe – see below

In the evening the crew went out for a meal in the mainland.

Sunday 27th April: PNPGC Men’s Scillies Vet Team row

Last PNPGC vet Scillies team training row before the Scillies world champs in Rhos coxes: Jim/Trev 6: Steve, 5: James, 4: Tom (fill in) 3: Barry, 2: Me, 1: Duncan. Few racing starts and a solid row in slight swelly seas. Looking forward to racing in our boat which is waiting for us on the green in St Mary’s – See our boat tucked away at the top with our PNPGC name on the black cover 🏴‍☠️

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Saturday 26th April 2025: Training WattBike Ride on Fulgaz course followed by Strength session and quick cool down row

After a few days of gig rows being cancelled due to weather. Nice WattBike 20km training ride on the Fulgaz Melbourne course in Australia 🇦🇺. Nice scenic route reminding me many years ago that I was there. Hoping to go there on holiday soon. This was followed by a strength session as follows:

Followed this session with stretching exercises and quick cool 😎 down RowErg row as follows.

Monday 21st April 2025: Two rows on sunny Easter 🐣 Monday

Bimble around the harbour waiting for a rower to arrive. This was followed by a nice social row out in Mount’s Bay in sunny weather and not too choppy seas. Cox: James, 6: Tina, 5:Jim, 4: Martin, 3: Wendy, 2: Me, 1: Branchy.

The second row was some of the men for the Scillies training doing technique training, racing starts and a fast row out to a boat ⛴️ called Galatea. Cox; Jim, 6: Ant, 5: James, 4: Steve, 3: Tom, 2: Me, 1: Trev. Trev in 1 helped to straighten my rowing 🚣 style that I need to work on.

Followed by a few drinks in the Longboat.

a bit about the boat we rowed to

Saturday 19th April 2025: WattBike cycle followed by strength session and C2 RowErg cool down

A 20 minute blast on the WattBike on the New Zealand 🇳🇿 Fulgaz Ironman course in Taupo. This was followed by strength training

This full body session devised on Hevy was followed by a cool 😎 down row.