The Team

Toby

After rowing with Jeremy in the Flushing & Mylor Mens A crew Toby went to Newquay ladies in 2008 with his RIB and camera.  When he got home he needed somewhere to post his pictures and set up the GigRower Facebook Group and registered the GigRower domain.  By Christmas, with help from Jeremy, a basic blog was in place and by Scillies the following year almost 1,000 rowers a day where logging onto the site.  The next big step for GigRower team & Toby is the launch of the magazine in 2010.

toby@gigrower.co.uk

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Jeremy

A member of the Flushing & Mylor ‘Mens A’ crew Jeremy has been involved in GigRower since it was launched in 2008. Jeremy was already using the Wordpress blogging platform for the FMPGC site and recommended it for GigRower, as well as hosting and updating the site he is also the ‘techy’ guy that makes all the clever electronic wizardry work.

mail@gigrower.co.uk

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Celia

A relative newcomer to Pilot Gigs Celia started rowing in 2008 for Flushing & Mylor Pilot Gig Club and in 2009 she wrote her first online article for GigRower which can be seen here. Celia also helped cover the 2009 Newquay Championships and has submitted one of the first articles to GigRower magazine which will be coming out later in 2010.

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Ryan

As well as rowing for the Mounts Bay Men’s A crew Ryan also runs the clubs website. Ryan joined the GigRower team in 2009 helping out with bits hear and there. Ryan helps update the site and keep things in check, he is also a keen photographer and will be covering some of the events in 2010.

mail@gigrower.co.uk

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John

A member of Caradon Gig Club John has taken many of the photos posted on GigRower in the last year.  John can often be seen in the back of the GigRower RIB with his ridiculously large camera.

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Paul

The latest member of the GigRower team, Paul from Falmouth Photos joined GigRower for the 2009 Newquay Championships.  A professional photographer Paul now attends gig events with his camera and video to capture the action.  Paul’s pictures are all for sale on GigRower and customers who order his fantastic photos can opt to receive high quality prints of any size, including canvases, in the post.  Check out Paul’s Newquay Pics here & his Newquay video here.

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Rhiannon

Working for British Rowing Rhiannon is on a 2 year post as a HSCT (Henley stewards charitable trust) scholarship coach. Based in Cornwall she is linked with 3 clubs : Looe, Fowey and Charlestown, working on their junior development. This has involved setting up club school links – running indoor rowing clubs, running training days, assisting with Clubmark, dev of a 8 week ‘learn to row course’. She also assist in running the indoor rowing competitions.  Rhiannon keeps GigRower up to date with news about the development and coaching work she is working on.

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Tom

Tom started Rowing at Sussex University, he rowed in both coastal sliding seat boats and inland Olympic class boats. He also started coaching in his second year of university and began working through his British Rowing coaching qualifications, whilst coaching both university crews and juniors from a local club. Tom moved to Devon in 2003 to take up the post as one of British Rowing’s first HSCT Scholarship Coaches. Not only is Tom development officer for British Rowing, but he has involvement with the CPGA, WEARA, the UK Surf Rowing League, and the Cornish Rowing Association.  Tom helps keep GigRower up to date with all the latest news from British Rowing and it’s development work with Gig Rowing.

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Jowan

The youngest member of the GigRower team Jowan will be helping build some of our new pages, creating posts and generally making himself useful.

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Tommy

An ex media student from Falmouth Tommy now works for Shelterbox doing media & pr stuff.  Tommy first joined GigRower at Scilly 2009 and could be seen in the back of the RIB with his video camera, the results of which can be seen here.