The club’s top Veteran crews rowed at this weekend’s Helford regatta. Billed as a mini-Scillies event, it included four races of (almost) the length of the traditional St. Agnes race at the World Championships. Both the ladies and men’s crews entered the Vets as well as the Open races. Men’s A/MVA won their Vets race [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2012’
Sport England Grant Announced!
FMPGC have been chosen to receive nearly £50,000 in money towards the building of a new gig shed in Flushing, from the Sport England ‘Inspired Facilities’ award scheme. A huge club effort in the autumn of 2011 to apply for the money and get the necessary planning permission to build this long-dreamed of building has [...]
Supervets’ Outing to Pandora
On Friday 9th March, a year to the day when the Pandora’s roof caught fire, the Supervets rowed round to be welcomed by the Landlord John Milan to the opening of the newly built pub. The rebuild looks fantastic. With an oars up!! we were on our way with kind thanks to Steve and Penny [...]
3 Rivers Race Success!
All the hard winter training paid off for the FMPGC crews today at Caradon’s 3 Rivers Race – the first major competition of the gigrowing season. The Ladies A crew broke the club record by finishing 5th out of 39 boats (in 58:07 mins); Ladies B beat the B crew record by coming 13th (in [...]
