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 [...]
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Good Friday race – 2nd place result!
We entered two crews in the Good Friday river race from Mylor to Truro. There were great sunny conditions with the showers holding off. A multitude of craft took part as well as around 16 gigs (to be confirmed) in this handicap pursuit race organised by Penryn RC. Our second crew in the GRP gig “Tregew” had to [...]
National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships
From Danny : Just recieved a message from Rosie Owens…Amy Hunt from Falmouth GC came 27th, Bethan Owens came joint 15th, and Rosie Owens came a fantastic 13th! (all out of 58)
Rosie said “It was all very exciting and she is chuffed as they got a free t-shirt each!”
What a fantastic result for them and [...]
Junior ergo session
Some of FMPGC Juniors enjoyed a chance to use 4 Ergos lent to them by the CPGA, they had a great time being taught the correct rowing technique. Once they had mastered this they went onto have some fun racing over 500 metres. They hope to be able to go up and have another go [...]
West Regional Schools Indoor Rowing Championships
What a day!! On Wednesday March 4th, Ali Johns and myself attended the Regional Schools Indoor rowing Championships held at Marjon University, Plymouth. There were roughly 150-200 students competing in different age groups starting from year 7 right through to year 13! There were 50 concept 2 rowing machines connected to a central computer recording all [...]
