Flushing & Mylor Pilot Gig Club

This Saturday 24th July, Kiln Beach Flushing

This is the start of the village regatta week and FMPGC are holding our usual fun day on the beach!

IF THE WEATHER IS UNCERTAIN ON THE DAY CALL OR TEXT ME ON 07932 161677 FOR CONFIRMATION. 

Hopefully the BBQ will be sizzling shortly after 12 MIDDAY with head chef Rodders ready to supply a meaty feast! 

Not to mention a delicious range of homemade cakes coming from some of our ladies!

All garnished with some music and banter, beach games and fun on the water!

So let’s make it a grand turn out from our members Come on down to watch, eat, drink or join in the festivities and let’s enjoy a great day together as a club with friends and family. 

Regards

Dave Matthews. FMPGC Committee.

Perfect conditions for racing at Porthoustock today, hosted by Coverack gig club with a veritable spectacle of cakes in the refreshments tent. A light offshore breeze meant clean flat water right by the beach (if a little congested with drysuit clad divers emerging from time to time!). The beach makes an interesting backdrop more akin to a post-apocalyptic movie set, quite unlike the golden sands of many Cornish beaches but it has a charm all of its own.

We only had crews available for Mens-B and Ladies-B races but what a great couple of races. Mens-B with Justin in his first race finished a very creditable 5th from 15. Ladies-B belted off the line, held a lead to the first mark, avoided a rogue dive boat on the racing line and pushed hard to keep Lark at bay in the last 50 metres to cross the line FIRST!

Well done, thoroughly deserved!

Today (Sunday) myself, Sue Morris, Carol, Ella, Trudi, Liz,Jeremy (cox) and Helen Rowe (cheerleader/personal shopper) travelled to Saltash to race in the Caradon/CPGA Ladies Vets competition. What a glorious day! And, a very welcome contrast to the bitter Easterly we faced there back in March. Because we got the place on a cancellation we only had one chance to train together but came 3rd in our 1st heat and 3rd again in the plate semi-final. As Sue remarked: ‘Can you imagine? – we would be dangerous if we actually trained!! ‘

Another time we might also try to avoid the situation we found ourselves in on the start line in our first heat : we were all lined up ( well, just ….we were late), Jeremy said  ‘Flags Up, Heads-in’ and Ella bravely asked ‘Er..what start are we doing?’ (Blimin good question – we hadn’t actually decided or disussed it since trying a few different starts in our only training session). Jeremy replied ‘Oh 3 3 and then 10 I guess ….Oh Go! ‘ and away we flew…..remarkably in time!!

Last Monday, 31st May, the FMPGC juniors Mark, Bee, Gosse , Finn, Jack and Bauke had their first race together at the South West Lake Junior Event at Stithians. The event was organized in Newquay style with a pool of gigs – the Trefusis included. There were 2 series of sprint races and the top 4 teams were then entered in the final 3rd race.

Although 3 juniors were U14, the team had to be entered in the U16 races as a composite crew. Taking this into account, they did really well in finishing 7th out of 13 in their first race in Lark. The second race they had a disadvantage at the start, still backwatering when the call to start was made, resulting in finishing 10th in the Bedehaven. Overall they did really well and most importantly thoroughly enjoyed themselves!