Helford Regatta 2010
Wind Direction: SSW
Wind Speed: 10Kts
Best Cake: The chocolate one
With a fast tide the straight course made for some a challenging rowing back to Helford Passage. As the races progressed, the tide eased but the wind got stronger.
A few snaps – Captions please!
Results – from the top of my head
Men’s A : Falmouth
Ladies A : Roseland
More to follow.
Pics - by Ryan
The annual fourteen mile row to Lundy took place last weekend, with a large increase in entrants on last year. Two teams each came from Torridge and Tamar/ Tavy together with teams from Salcombe, Rock, Illfracombe, Port Isaac and of course Clovelly.
All teams started off promptly at 7.30 in the morning to catch the early tide which we hoped would help us on our way. It didn’t fail us and all boats had reached the island by 10.30, which considering the long deep swells and broken seas was very good going. That left the rest of the day for all crews to explore the island, which is one of the few remaining wildernesses left around our coastline. As usual the Marisco provided a lively venue that evening with nearly everyone in the row there, and despite the long day few were eager to make an early night of it.
Next morning, after a wild rain lashed and stormy night, the wind had veered round to the west and was in just the place to push us back to Clovelly together with the incoming tide. All crews made it back in record time in under three hours, conveniently arriving at opening time for the Red Lion.
Rock gig club were also using the event to help raise awareness for breast cancer research. They entered a team largely made up of Ladies who had been affected by this disease and successfully raised a large sum of money.
Thanks must go to the Lundy Estate for allowing us to stay on the island and especially John Rous from the Clovelly club for organising the event.
Chris
Clovelly
Devoran Gig Club hosted another great regatta this afternoon, with Helford Gig Club the overall club winners, just followed by Coverack and then Truro.
Grey clouds threatened overhead but the rain held off throughout the late afternoon racing. With calm conditions and a turnout from 12 clubs there was, as usual, fantastic viewing for supporters from the quay.
Race Winners:
MA: Helford
LA: Rock
MB: Falmouth
LB: Helford
Mixed : Falmouth
Vets: Helford
Under 14s : Coverack
Under 16s : Coverack
Coverack Gig Club once again hosted a brilliant event with some good racing. With a stiff offshore (refreshing) breeze, the Men’s B crews took to the water with an experienced Falmouth crew taking victory. The Ladies B crews saw some tough racing up the first leg between Mount’s Bay B & C and Flushing & Mylor Crews. Flushing & Mylor got clear water going into the mark and rowed superbly to take victory. The Under 14’s set out for their short sprint in against a tough wind. Cadgwith took victory here as well as the Under 16’s.
It was then the A crew’s turn to take to the water with Mount’s Bay taking victory in both Men’s & Womens. The racing flowed well, once again, well done Coverack for a superb event. The cake stall was top notch 
.
Calling Photographers! – did you get any pictures? I managed to forget mine, so if you have any, feel free to send them in .
Men’s B
1 Irene Too
2 Taran
3 Shearwater
4 Manacle Belle
5 Penarrow
6 Rose
7 Fear Not
8 Defiance
9 Azook
10 Senara
11 Petroc
12 Avarack
Ladies B
1 Penarrow
2 Lark (Mts Bay C)
3 Taran (Mts Bay B)
4 Endurance
5 Azook
6 Shearwater
7 Rose
8 Senara
9 Petroc
10 Defiance
11 Manacle Belle
12 Avarack
13 Fear Not
Men’s A
1 Taran
2 Petroc
3 Lark
4 Endurance
5 Defiance
6 Senara
7 Avarack
8 St Elvan
9 Rose
10 Shearwater
11 Azook
DQ Irene Too
Ladies A
1 Taran
2 Petroc
3 Irene Too
4 Rose
5 Shearwater
6 Senara
7 Fear Not
8 Lark
9 Azook
10 Defiance
11 St Elvan
12 Avarack
U14’s
1 Rose
2 Manacle Belle
3 Avarack (Coverack)
4 St Elvan
5 Lark
U16’s
1 Rose
2 Lark
3 Petroc
4 St Elvan
5 Petroc
6 Manacle Belle
Mixed
1 ?
2 Manacle Belle
3 Lark
4 St Elvan
5 Avarack
6 Shearwater
7 Senara
A beautiful day by the water, ably hosted by Mevagissey Gig Club saw round 2 of the 2010 Tribute Series. An oily calm sea in the morning was eventually stirred by a much needed light onshore breeze. Hot stuff on the water with Caradon, Devoran and Falmouth cleaning up.
Mevagissey Tribute Series provisional results.
| 0verall | Mens A | Mens B | U16 | Ladies A | Ladies B | Overall |
| 1 | Caradon | Caradon | Devoran | Falmouth | Falmouth | 1 |
| 2 | Par Bay | Helford | Cadgwith | Roseland | Newquay | 2 |
| 3 | Mounts Bay | Falmouth | Fowey | Caradon | Caradon | 3 |
| 4 | Fowey | Mounts Bay | Helford | Charlestown | Charlestown | 4 |
| 5 | Falmouth | Roseland | Coverack | Mounts Bay | Helford | 5 |
| 6 | Roseland | Fowey | Looe | Newquay | Roseland | 6 |
| 7 | Looe | Rame | Charlestown | Teign | Mounts Bay | 7 |
| 8 | Helford | Charlestown | Porthleven | Truro | Flushing Mylor | 8 |
| 9 | Cattewater | Truro | Rock | Fowey | Fowey | 9 |
| 10 | Weymouth | Cattewater | Caradon | Helford | Paignton | 10 |
| 11 | Zennor | Looe | Truro | Padstow | Swanage | 11 |
| 12 | Flushing Mylor | Zennor | Padstow | Swanage | Weymouth | 12 |
| 13 | Mevagissey | Weymouth | Rock | Teign | 13 | |
| 14 | Charlestown | Padstow | Cattewater | Devoran | 14 | |
| 15 | Newquay | Paignton | Salcombe | Zennor | 15 | |
| 16 | Truro | Pendeen | Zennor | Truro | 16 | |
| 17 | Coverack | Bristol | Salcombe | 17 | ||
| 18 | Teign | Paignton | Padstow | 18 | ||
| 19 | Bristol | Devoran | St Agnes | 19 | ||
| 20 | Cadgwith | Rame | Bristol | 20 | ||
| 21 | Padstow | Cadgwith | Rame | 21 | ||
| 22 | Paignton | St Agnes | Mevagissey | 22 | ||
| 23 | St Ives | Flushing Mylor | Rock | 23 | ||
| 24 | Pendeen | Weymouth | 24 | |||
| 25 | Porthleven | Penryn | 25 | |||
| 26 | Rock | Dart | 26 | |||
| 27 | Rame | Mevagissey | 27 | |||
| 28 | St Agnes | Coverack | 28 | |||
| 29 | Salcombe | St Ives | 29 | |||
| 30 | Nankersey | Looe | 30 | |||
| 31 | Devoran | Nankersey | 31 | |||
| 32 | Calstock | 32 |
As usual Caradon Gig Club delivered a fantastic well organized days racing at the annual Mixed Championships. The venue, Saltash on the bank of the River Tamar made from some interesting racing as crews flew down the first leg to the first mark with the flooding tide. With the turns all within 1 mintue of each other, crews didn’t really have much scope for overtakes around them and just followed around single file, with a few exceptions .
The first round start on time with the juniors semi-finals and the mixed quarter finals all done by 11.30am. With a quick break, the plate semi’s got under way and then the mixed semi’s. Followed by a 45 min lunch break, the three finals started with Coverack taking victory in the Junior Mixed.
Mixed Results at a glance:
Another top day of racing, thank you Caradon. The cake stall was also exquisite!
Good luck to all the crews competing in tomorrows Veterans Championships.
Anne : “Hi, a little misunderstanding, we did not take part in the raid this year, we just rowed the canal there and back, the raid will take place again next year if anyone is interested.”
Devoran Pilot Gig Club to put the wind up Nessie!
At the end of May eleven rowers from Devoran Pilot Gig Club headed to the land of their tartan clad Celtic cousins to row the length of the Caledonian Canal across Northern Scotland.
The journey started at Inverness on the East Coast and progressed through Loch Ness, past Fort Augustus to Fort William.The return leg brought us back to the boatyard in Inverness. Obviously to complete such an epic voyage large quantities of fuel needed to be taken on board, and consequently a map of the pubs on route was carefully scrutinised. Evening wear, T shirts showing Nessie terrorising the Cornish raiders,were designed by Nick Brennan, a Devoran rower and freelance cartoonist.
The majority of the rowers slept on a cabin cruiser hired to accompany us on the trip. Others had volunteered to camp…. free camping being available along the canal and loch side.
We were the first Cornish gig club to attempt to row the length of the Caledonian Canal and back. Prior to departure we all sought sponsorship to raise money for Penhaligon’s Friends charity and equipment for the gig club.
We set out on Saturday 29th May and returned on June 5th.
On my return I recorded a few personal recollections from our trip.
“Have you got any more bright ideas”, I said to my wife Anne as at 3.40 on Saturday 29th May 2010 we set off in driving rain from the Caley Cruiser depot in Inverness to row the first stage of the Caledonian Canal. Three hours rowing into torrential rain brought us to the small private mooring of Urquhart Castle harbour near the village of Drumnadrochit. In the unfortunate absence of a loo or shower, we must have resembled bedraggled penguins on a detached ice flow as we huddled together on the Mother craft to plan our next move Apparently the village with facilities was only a short walk away. Two miles trudging into a Scottish monsoon as it transpired.
That night a lot of wet tired, steamy, bodies returned to our cramped vessel to try and find a space to lay their heads. Minutes later the ships loo suffered a mysterious blockage. By this time I was wondering if I had signed up to community service rather than a holiday and christened our new floating home, Highland Commander 1, the prison ship. Then, as we lay down to try and sleep the ship shuddered and rocked as a deafening roar descended from above. I presumed this to be a thunderstorm directly overhead. It was only on the second night under a clear sky that another explanation was obviously required. Steve Smith’s legendary snoring!
Well the weather improved, the lochs and hills revealed themselves in all their glory and we started to get into an effective rowing rhythm. The wind dropped away and the water assumed a glassy stillness. Only the click of the pins, the lapping of the oars, the sound of the gulls and Janet broke the silence. Lunch was prepared on the prison ship on an industrial scale and washed down with tea, coffee or highly potent ginger beer depending on taste. Once, rather quaintly the latter was served from the teapot.
Many of the party were experienced sailors and boatmen, Kipper Hughes ex lifeboat Coxen and Steve Smith ex trawler skipper shared command of the prison ship. Unfortunately not all of us had a nautical background and I stretched Skipper Kipper’s patience on several occasions when I got my foreads confused with my afts. At one point
Kipper kept referring to ‘windage’. I took this as a reference to Jenny’s post birthday cake burst of flatulence that could have downed a stag at 50 yards (apparently it referred to the effect of the wind on the prison ships mobility.
Legendary Cornish maid Jenny’s birthday proved a high point, celebrated as it was on a floating barge converted into a pub. A unique setting full of local characters who soon were entertained by a Cornish repertoire of humour ,songs and boisterous celebration Jenny wisely swapped her party frock for a life jacket to ensure her safe return.
As for the dreaded m word, banned by the Scottish tourist board, many of us never got bitten by a midge, others however like Sarah Treneer were treated like a Cornish takeaway. Jenny claimed that on her birthday night she got closer attention from the midges than from her husband Steve.
Steve, ‘you can take my wife
but you canny take ma paddle’ Smith ,was noted for his love of the local cuisine with the exception of one expensive steak meal that, shall we say, fell short of the mark. Anyway he took this solitary disappointment well and hardly mentioned it again( ‘oh Lord forgive me)
The highland culture was absorbed with Jenny and the girls jigging around to a tape of the bagpipes. I was fortunately rowing at this point as I appreciate the pipes more from a distance, preferably miles rather than yards. Daytime drinking of course was kept to a minimum although one day Steve, Rob and Kipper did manage a few bevvies,resulting soon after in Steve rushing around on deck claiming to have seen his old, Falmouth fishing trawler pass bye.After brief restraint he was dispatched below to sober up.
130 miles of water covered in 6 days, through 10 locks, past snow capped mountains, and through lochs of endlessly changing colours and mood. All completed with great company and in a good spirit.
(No, Anne, I didn’t say on the way home that one more day and I would have killed someone)
So a big thank you to Anne Williams for turning her inspirational idea into reality and for Rob and Steve for driving the gig all the way to the Highlands and back. I think it was their special Cornish fuel what did it.
As the Scots oft repeat, ‘you can take my wife, but you canny take my ginger beer’.
Dan Williams
Member of Devoran Pilot Gig Club and author of ‘Rowing with My Wife’.
UPDATE – 1/Jun Every gig rower should do this! As far as we know this is the first gig to row the Caledonian Canal! We are on our way back to Inverness. We did Inverness to Fort William in 13 hours now on our way back staying in Laggan tonight celebrating Jenny Smiths birthday on a floating pub. We have been on radio Cornwall and radio scilly.
28/May – From Anne @ Devoran GC – “Better late than never! I wanted to let you know about our very exciting trip to the Caledonian canal. As far as we know the first gif to do it. We wish Ralph was here to support Fear Not!
We plan to do a talk on our return and will have photos and video. If in future years there are 4 or 5 gig clubs who want to go up they will put on a class in the Caledonian Raid! http://www.sailcaledonia.org/mainframe.htm“
Mount's Bay Men's B & C battle to the mark.
The rescheduled Mount’s Bay Regatta took place on Saturday 5th of June. With the weather threatening to rain just before the coxswain’s meeting, it held off and the Men’s A started the days proceedings.
Truro Ladies do their Stretches...
With a short first leg (4:42) the first turn was a sharp course change. Mount’s Bay Men’s A turned first with the bow rower tossing, follwed by Melusine (Zennor). Taking 3 lengths on the first mark, Mount’s Bay stretched their lead as they crossed the line. The Men’s B took to the water for the second race with a shock battle for first place between Monut’s Bay Men’s B & C crew. The C crew made up of older veterans, developing juniors, and several retired rowers (6 years was the last time in the boat) the C crew had mighty start and took the lead, but as the crews approached the first mark the B’s just managed to reel in enough of a lead to get the water.
The Under 16’s then had their race from the second mark to the finish line. A short sprint saw Lark (Coverack) take first place after a hard fought battle with St. Elvan (Porthleven).
The Ladies A race had a brilliant battle between Kensa (Mount’s Bay) & Brisons (Cape Cornwall), Brisons made up of three Cape rowers, one Mount’s Bay rower & two Falmouth rowers pushed Mount’s Bay all the way to the line. The Ladies B again saw a tight race between Kensa and Azook (Hayle), also made up of two Falmouth rowers.
The Under 14’s had a straight sprint along the side of the iconic St Michael’s Mount with Lark taking a well deserved victory. The Veterans race saw Melusine (Zennor) take the Men’s title and Kensa take the Ladies. The mixed was a hard fought battle between two Mount’s Bay crews with Zennor in third.
Regatta 30th May 2010 Turnaware Point, Roseland
The weekend dawned with many expectant glances at the weather forecasts, especially after two other events were casualties of the weather. The forecast improved and the event went ahead, despite rain forecast late. This was the first time the club had run a Regatta style event instead of a pursuit race from Truro to Mylor.
The clubs gathered, with many local clubs rowing over and the coxes meeting went as scheduled. The course was the traditional kite shaped with the start off Pill Creek with the finish off the beach. This was designed to allow the spectators to be able view as much of the race as possible.
The weather remained overcast all day and some excellent racing was had, with a full programme of races. The results are tabulated below:
C – Denotes declared composite crews
Overall winners were Roseland.
The weather held and a fine days racing was had, in what turned out to be a small local Regatta all taken in a good spirit.
The Club wishes to thank the National Trust and Mr Symonds for allowing us to use the venue. Sponsors included Carrick Leisure, Ferris Garage, Truro Glass and Sarah Wyld (Handmade celebration cakes).
In a stiff Northerly wind, the re-scheduled Good Friday River Race from Mylor to Truro saw a variety of oar powered craft take part. Gigs, surf boats, skiffs, flashboats, Canadian canoe’s, kayaks, sliding seat boats and punts. Smaller craft started first in the devised handicap system and gigs started last. Through the race the gigs eventually overtook other craft on the battle up the river. The wind eased as the river narrowed, taking us past the King Harry Ferry, the laid up ships and Smugglers Cottage.
As the race came into it’s final stages, weaving around the river past Malpas and Truro Cathedral came into sight the River got shallow further up river making for some strong drag for crews as they battled their way up to Truro. With some boats finishing in 52mins and some in 1 hour and 30mins, the field was quite spread out along the river.
Results at a glance:
Download the full results – Thanks to Lindsey from Penryn Rowing Club for sending these in.
Pics
Thank you to Dylan for sending these in .
Men’s Results:
1. Morlader - 32.50
2. Jane D - 33.17
2. Shearwater – 33.17
3. Torrent - 34.30
4. Bedehaven – 36.45
Ladies Results
1. Jane D – 39.20
2. Shearwater – 40.47
3. Torrent – 43.50
4. Bedehaven 46.45
5. Unity – 47.05
Pics :: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=4508&id=106322752740747
Appledore History Race Results
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1st :: Raparee – Ilfracombe
2nd :: Whitford – Appledore
3rd :: Leah C – Clovelly
4th :: Oarsome – Torridge
5th :: Giggles – Torridge
6th :: Verbena – Appledore
7th :: Siren – Ilfracombe
8th :: Kerens – Torridge
Thank you to Simon for sending these in.
The 16th March saw over 3,000 young rowers compete in the 2010 junior indoor rowing championships, organised by London Youth Rowing which was held at Battersea evolution centre. 12 Pupils aged 12-15 from Looe community school made the trip up to London from Cornwall to represent their school rowing club.
The indoor rowing club is in its second year at Looe school, run by members of Looe rowing club with the help of British rowing coach Rhiannon Halliday.
The trip was made possible through funding from Cornwall sports partnership, Callington school sports partnership and Edwina Hannaford (Local councillor). Looe school provided the transport for the trip and PE teachers supported the rowers at the event. The indoor club has been a brilliant way of recruiting new rowers, as well as introducing the concept of fitness training to Looes existing juniors.
The school rowing club have achieved several good results in local, county and regional competitions in the build up to the national event. Several of the students had attended in 2009 and were adamant to beat their previous years placing.
Results as follows:
Year 8 girls – row for 3 mins (184 competitors)
Elysia Gregory 45th - 692m. Lauren fisher 52nd - 688m.
Year 9 girls – row for 4 mins (177 competitors)
Jess Lee 71st – 902m. Josie Marks 91st – 869m
Year 9 boys – row for 4 mins (145 competitors)
Adam Haler 13th – 1107m. Tom Olver 44th – 1021m
Year 10 girls – row for 5 mins (112 competitiors)
Lucy Rawe 23rd – 1218m. Damaris Butters 50th – 1139m
Year 10 boys – row for 5 mins (181 competitors)
Zac Thomas 20th – 1387m. Alex Hicks 66th – 1306m. Fred Alsop 107th – 1246m. Spencer Delf – 120th – 1225m.
Sprint relay (2,000m)
Girls (lucy, damaris, elysia, jess) – 20th / 90. 8 mins
Boys (Zac, Alex, Tom, Adam) – 15th / 84. 6 mins 48 secs
Due to the adverse weather forecast we have taken the decision to postpone the Good Friday Race from Mylor to Truro.
We will re-schedule it for Sat 15th May, subject to the necessary approvals from the harbourmaster etc – the tide is a similar height, so we will be looking at a 4pm coxes meeting, 4.30 first boat away.
Hope you can all make it on the new date, and I would be grateful if you could let us know by email by Fri 7th May so we have an idea of numbers.
Penryn RC
Helford held their ‘Mini Scillies’ event over the weekend in stunning spring conditions on the river. Results and report to follow but in the mean time here are some great pics from Paul and also a cool little video also by Paul.
Click here to see the pics, here is a quick sample:
In the bitterest of east winds and with ice still frozen on the ground, 74 crews and almost 500 rowers lined up under the Tamar bridge this morning for the first gig race of the 2010 season, Three Rivers.
Hosted by Caradon Gig Club this is one of the longest races in the Gig Racing calender at around 6 miles (50 min) long. The race is given it’s name as it passes through the three rivers of Tamar, Tavy & Lynher.
Gallery :: Three Rivers photos
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Each race was stared under the Tamar bridge into an ebb tide and fresh east wind on the starboard bow, a buoy turn after 1000m was followed by a 500m slog into the wind before three gradual buoy turns faced the crews back down river towards the bridge with the tide and wind beneath them.
As with so many races the first mark is everything and despite the length of this endurance course Three Rivers is no exception and the order after the first mark changed very little from the finish results half an hour later. There where however some exceptions as crew members begin to suffer from blistered hands, poor fitness, fatigue, broken kit and today, the bitter cold.
The second and longest leg then passed under the bridge and tracked towards a port turn mark at the entrance to the river Lynher which set crews once again into the now stronger wind and chop in the exposed river mouth. After the final mark crews could focus on the finish line under the bridge and the end of the race. These final two legs where perhaps the hardest of the day and boat speeds dropped as low as three knots as tired crews pushed a strengthening ebb tide to cross the line.
The ladies first heat saw Falmouth A and Caradon A take an early lead and by the fiftieth stroke both had clear water over the rest of the fleet. A broken pin in the Falmouth boat and a aggressive push from the home crew then gave Caradon clear water but Falmouth attacked and started to close but it was not enough and by the start of the return leg Caradon still had clear water and used their dominant position to drive of Falmouth and finish one minute and 35 seconds ahead, a complete reversal from last year when Falmouth beat Caradon. Mounts Bay (again +1:35) then came across in third followed by Falmouth B (+9secs) and Newquay A (+17secs) in fourth and fifth.
The mens race saw a tighter start with the same two clubs Falmouth and Caradon taking an early lead with clear water 50 strokes in. The home crew then made a controlled push that slowly pulled them ahead of Falmouth and gave them clear water by the first mark which they held until the end finishing 50 seconds ahead. 2008 World Champions Mounts Bay then finished in third behind Falmouth (+35secs) followed by Looe (+6secs), Caradon B (+12secs) and Flushing & Mylor A (+21secs).
Today was the first race outing for Essa, Caradons new Gig and a great start to her racing carer with two wins at her home event. Once again the Caradon committee and it’s members did a great job running a slick event kicking off the start of the 2010 racing calender.
The Three Rivers is renowned as one of the toughest races on the gig racing circuit. Not only is it one of the longest but as the first event of the season it is a harsh initiation for the rowers. Blown forearms, blistered hands and sore gig asses are common complaints on the quay after and for many the sunny summer regattas still seem a long way away.
With Scilly only 8 weeks away the top crews training will now be focused on power and sprinting and for many this will have been the case since Christmas. Although Three Rivers gives a good indication of what has happened to the ordering over the winter don’t forget a lot can still change and for many who didn’t get the result expected it will be the motivation needed to hit the training hard and do better in Scilly.
Video by Tommy
Video by Paul
Results and stats.
Mens result graph -- time from winner as percentage.
Ladies result graph -- time from winner as percentage.
Download the results as a PDF here
How was it for you ? miserable and cold ? Add a comment below …
Event Gallery :: Three Rivers by: Paul
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More pics here: http://www.lymescapes.co.uk/ (Enter threerivers2010 in the box when you get there)
UCP Marjon Sport West Region Schools Indoor Rowing Championships 2010
The College of St Mark and St John in Plymouth once again hosted the West Region Schools Indoor Rowing Championships, on March 2nd 2010. The event, run in conjunction with British Rowing, the Plymouth Rowing Forum and the Plymstock and Sir John Hunt School Sports Partnerships, was the culmination of a regional series of competitions which started prior to Christmas with SSP events, leading to County based events in January and February, and finishing with the Regional Championships.
This years’ regional competition saw a change in format, with schools required to enter on a team, rather than an individual basis. Each team entered was made up of one pupil from each year group, year 7 to 11. Each pupil taking part rowed in an individual race against other competitors from their year group, with the number of metres rowed in their year group race contributing to an overall team score. In addition the team of five rowed together in team relay, which proved to be a noisy and exciting culmination to the event.
The female team event was keenly contested, with Bruton School from Somerset bringing five strong teams to the event, while 2009 winners Devonport High School for Girls (DHSG) were keen to retain their title. Going into the final team relay, Bruton, DHSG and Plymouth High School for Girls (PHSG) were separated by a matter of metres. Bruton A managed a strong second place finish in the relay, ahead of PHSG and DHSG, to give them to overall female title.
In the men’s event the Plymouth schools also featured strongly, with Plymstock and DHSB taking a win apiece and several top five places in the individual races. However Torquay Boys Grammar School were close behind going into the relay having won two individual events, including a new championship record in the year 9 male race. The male relay proved to be a stunning race, with DHSG overhauling leaders Plymstock on the final stroke to win by a mere 0.3 seconds. Alas it wasn’t enough to go into the lead in the overall male title, with Plymstock taking this ahead of DHSB, with Torquay Boys in third.
Click here to download the Results (excel)
Click here to download the team results (excel)
In the overall event, it was consistency across all the male and female events which proved the key, with 2008 winners Ridgeway taking the title again, with Tavistock in 2nd and Looe School in 3rd.
Many thanks go to the event sponsors and the volunteers from clubs and schools from around the region who supported the running of the event. A number of competitors from schools taking part will now go on to compete at the national Junior Indoor Rowing Championships, held in London on March 16th.
Tom Pattichis
British Rowing Team Leader – West Region
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