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Rowed for Coverack Super Vets at Helford River Gig Club Mini Scillies. After the really windy day on Friday, the wind had dropped a bit for the event to take place. We were on first as vets and super vets racing together. The crew was cox : Sophie, 6: Martin, 5: James as fill in for Jon, 4: Gary, 3: Pete, 2: Me, 1: Andy. We had a warm up row to the start with the wind to start the race. We started the race and was against the wind and in places driving rain. Great race and came 5 in Morah with a time of 16.20. Caradon came first in Ann Glanville with a time of 13.45, second Falmouth in Arvenack with a time of 14.40, Cadgewith in Spy with a time of 15.07, Helford in Helford in the time of 16.07. Following us was Fowey in Q with a time of 16.39, followed by Cotehole Quay in Gallow with a time of 16.56, the Teign in Templer with a time of 17.11 and Deveron in Fear Time with a time of 20.58. Great race and room for improvement for Scillies with more training as a crew. The results of all the clubs both Vets and Super Vets are shown below

The information on the whole work out is above and below

Good session training with CGC for the first time at Porthoustock Beach near Coverack. Crew : Cox: Sophie, 6: Lilly, 5: Jon, 4: Gary, 3: Peter, 2: Me, 1: Andy. The launch off on the beach was interesting as rather rough and the boat filled with water until we rowed out of the in coming waves. Took some time emptying the boat of water with a bucket and a smaller containers before we could row. Then practiced starts 2 strong, followed by four powerful and long and then into long fast racing strokes for 2 minutes. We did several of these in rough swelly seas where we had to find the water. Good practice ready for the Scillies world championship race in a months time with plenty of time for training. Coming into the beach on the waves on the gig future was fun also. Looking forward to Mini Scillies at Helford if takes place axman weather looks bad.

Evening training row with PNPGC from Penzance harbour. Cox: Julie, 6:Tina, 5: Kevin, 4: Steve, 3: Al, 2: Me, 1: Janice. Fairly choppy with emphasis on stroke technique especially length of stroke. Also race technique. Nice to see the Scillonian III coming into Penzance Harbour from the Scillies probably in preparation to get our gigs over to the St Mary’s ready for the Gig Championships at the end of April

short learn to row session helping new rowers to enjoy gig rowing 🚣🏿. This Julie coxing and Steve, myself and Kevin. Good to see the responses of Cara, Liz and Sarah to first row. Good session on technique ad I was in seat 2.

Men’s Crew training from Penzance harbour. Cox: Julie, 6: Jemima, 5: Al, 4: Chris, 3: Me, 2: Steve, 1: Kevin. Lots of practice on race starts as well as lengthening the stroke while racing

Afternoon Gig Row with MBPGC Ladies Supervets Team going to Scillies Cox: Teresa, 6 Zoe, 5: Liz, 4: ?, 3: ? 2: Shirley, 1: Me. This was mainly in harbour but went out into choppy seas. Did plenty of hard pyramids.