Tamar & Tavy Gig Club

5 days ago

Monday Rowing

Monday Morning Rowers is a popular session for all comers, beginners, men, women, juniors, vets. To keep it running smoothly we ask that you book a seat in the boat by the Sunday before by 6 p.m. Usually contact Helen on charlielloyd@doctors.org.uk but for 28th July, 4th, 11th and 18th of August please book in with nichola@nicholawilliams.com and copy in your reply to jo@uppaton.plus.com

5 days ago

Eddystone Challenge

The Eddystone Challenge is a 26 mile/40K row from Mount Batten to the Eddystone Lighthouse and back on August 16th. It can take 4-7 hours to complete. A male crew and a female crew are currently training. The ladies hope to be the oldest female crew to achieve this in a gig and have decided to do it in aid of CHILDREN’S HOSPICE SOUTH WEST. If you would like to sponsor them please contact Loveday Fethney lovedayandben@btinternet.com . Sponsorship forms are circulating around the club.
GOOD LUCK!!

18 days ago

Interesting talk and social

A film presentation and talk of the Round Cornwall Coast path Run. 280miles Wednesday July 9th 7-30pm at Clearbrook village Hall

As many of you are aware, Nigel Jenkins our winter circuit training coach and his friend Adam Forest have recently completed a round Cornwall run in just over 7 days in aid of Help for Heroes – a charity to assist in the rehab of injured service personnel from Afghanistan and Iraq. Their entertaining film shows an insight into their journey and stunning shots of what we have on our doorstep. Also a showing of the Bob Graham Round, which Nigel completed some years ago ( 42 Lakeland mountain summits, 72 miles in 24 hours )
Admission £1 or free to those who have sponsored them ( thank you ), no admission fee to under 16s.
The evening should last no later than 8-30pm. Please bring your own wine/beer and glasses as they have no bar open on this night. However, a visit to the Skylark Inn, Clearbrook will be a formality afterwards. Please come along as they think it would be great to thank their many sponsors, now over £2000. has been collected.

22 days ago

5th & 6th July 2008

Due to high winds and severe weather warnings the club will not be rowing on Saturday 5th July. ie. Goran, local and long distance/challenging rowing training cancelled. It is extremely likely that all rowing on Sunday 6th will also be cancelled so check carefully with squad organiser before setting out.

25 days ago

Saltash mixed and veteran championships

Saturday the 28th June saw the Tamar and Tavy Gig Rowing Club turn out in their numbers to the Saltash Town Regatta & Waterside Festival. This is an annual jointly organised festival offering a host of events running all through the weekend.

Tamar & Tavy is currently welcoming a lot of new rowers to the club and this well organised festival offered the perfect opportunity to introduce their newcomers to the joys of gig racing! The mixed crew kicked off the days rowing with Tamar & Tavy entering a team consisting of three new and three experienced rowers (Andy & Jane Morton, Jemma Sharman were new with Tamar Howard-Pearce, Paul Sellers and Matthew Pinney representing the experienced rowers). The team gave their all and though they couldn’t rank with the fastest times they certainly made up for in shear guts and effort.

The Mixed races were followed by the ladies vets – an event that Tamar & Tavy won last year – a hard act to follow and exacerbated by with some soupy water and strong competition. They entered a team consisting of Carolyn Dawe, Carrie Lawson, Loveday Fethney, Jo Cameron, Ruth Walker and Tricia Stewart. Only two members of the crew had rowed last year and this was only Lovedays second experience of racing. The team were not able to follow last years club lead but gave a good account of themselves coming in 3rd and 2nd in the following two heats.

The Mixed Super Vets was the next event that the club entered. Again, choosing to give some new and inexperienced rowers a taste of the exhilaration of rowing in a fun environment. The team was made up of Helen MacFarlane, John Rogers. Maggie Cartwright, Martin Painter, Peter Clarke and Lesley Coupland who has only recently joined the club and rowed with all the pull she could muster!

Recognition must also go to one of the clubs longest standing members, Maggie Cartwright, a ‘super’, super vet who spent most of her, long day, taking photos and supporting all with kind words and good advice.

25 days ago

Salcombe

A champagne toast was in order for Tamar & Tavy’s super-veteran gig rowers after a resounding win at Salcombe. The crew with over 400 years of experience in the boat and the rowers’ average age of 64 years, rowed at an incredible pace to take the mark in first place, once securely in the lead, they romped home, crossing the line with a very comfortable lead against local team Salcombe, sporting a team with average age of 70 years. The veteran category is extremely popular and competitive, however it begins at 40 years; meaning there are few opportunities for the more mature rower to race competitively. Salcombe regatta is the exception as there is a super-vet race for a beautiful wooden trophy with oars and a walking stick entwined. The supervet crew: Rod Atkinson, Jonathan Young, Paul Fletcher, Peter Clarke, Alastair Monteath, Steve Fletcher: cox and non-super vet Helen Lloyd.

Some great performances by the rest of the club in the new gig Tamar were: Ladies’ B battling in the peak of the tide taking 9th place, Men’s B 7th, Men’s A 9th, Ladies’ A 8th, men’s vets 6th and Ladies’ vets taking 5th place with Tom Sargeant making an impressive debut as a race cox. It was a rigorous day, with many of the crew rowing two or three of the long races to and from the sand bar, famed in Tennyson’s poem ‘Crossing of the bar’.

A day of sunshine and spectacular scenery ended on a high with the Barbarian’s race, in which crews from all clubs present were scrambled. Tamar & Tavy club chairman Bill Stacey-Norris coxed a crew with four TnT rowers to 2nd place in local boat Bolt.

53 days ago

Rock regatta.

Rock regatta one of the highlights on the circuit for spectators and rowers, took place on Sunday accompanied by hoards of sun seeking supporters. The festival atmosphere of Daymer Beach soon gave way to Rock’s rigorous and ruthless racing. The primal beat of oars in the thole pins, clashing oars and hollering coxes saw Tamar, Tamar and Tavy gig club’s new boat, consistently in the thick of the pack.

The Women’s and Men’s veteran teams both took 8th place. The women’s B in a hard battled race with local rivals Calstock took 21st place, with new rower this season, Loveday Fethney, making a debut in the powerhouse of the boat. The Men’s B also saw Andy Morton, Tom Friend and David Goodspeed making their debut for the club with the welcome return of Santosh Chakrabartri after injury. The Men’s A and Women’s A teams, again tight in the pack with ferocious tactics form the opposition requiring nifty coxing from Bill Stacy Norris and Peter Clarke, both took 17th place. The day ended with a novelty race in which the Tamar and Tavy team excelled no doubt aided by the presence runner Carrie Lawson, new member Jane Morton and excellent support from the launch crew, as the teams sprinted down the beach, leapt into the waiting gig, rowed fervently across the Camel Estuary and back whilst changing shirts before finishing with a sprint back up the beach.

In contrast Saturday saw both the gigs navigating the tranquil upper reaches of the Tamar with a long but leisurely paddle from Weir Quay to the opening of Cothele’s new museum and Morwellham’s refurbished quay with 34 rowers taking part in the social row.

54 days ago

Prints of Tamar

Helen Mac is selling prints of Tamar for Â£20. It is a lovely print marking the launch of our new gig. If you are interested please contact Helen on pewtor@hotmail.com alternatively a laminated copy can be viewed in the blue box in Ginette labled ‘the office’.

64 days ago

event update

Tribute Mixed & Veterans Championships are at Saltash on Saturday 28th June 2008. Categories are; Ladies Veterans, Mixed Veterans (3 and 3), Ladies Super Vets, Mens Super Vets, Mixed Super Vets (3 and 3) & Mixed (3 and 3). Please let your squad Captain know as soon as possible if you are interested in taking part, Rowing or Coxing the deadline for entries (which the Club has to send in by post) is 9th June so we need to know from you by Saturday 31st May in order to select teams and enter in time.

Other diary dates are Rock 1st June at Daymer Bay, Looe on the 7th June held at East Looe Beach, entries for this have to be in by May 30th and Salcombe on 15th June.

On 31st May the gigs will be on show at both Cothele and Morwhellham where there are museum openings. Rowers needed to row there and back.

73 days ago

Events

Dates to pencil in the diary. Please contact squad captains if you are interested in taking part in any of the events. We aim to include as far as we can. I understand that as a club we have decided to support events nearer to home where at least 3 crews wish to participate, so let captains know asp so we can register.
31st May Cothele museum opening. Rowers are required to get gigs there and back and to publicise the club by taking out folk wanting a taster and selling prints of Tamar. A beautiful row if you haven’t done it before and for those of us that have it’d be lovely to do it when it is not raining!

1st June Rock regatta Gigs arrive 9.30 cox meeting 12.45 racing 1.30. Race order vets, ladies b, men b, juniors, ladies a, mens a, mixed/novelty if time permits. Check details with Rock web site and cpga.
7th June Looe
15th June Salcombe
28th June Caradon mixed & vets champs.