Tamar & Tavy Gig Club08/05/2008
World Championships 2008
A Fantastic time was had by all rowers and supporters from Tamar & Tavy at the Isles of Scilly over the May bank holiday. First out on the Friday night for a long race, from St.Agnes to St. Marys, in an interesting sea and swell were the veteran crews. The vet ladies in Tamar were 27th and the vet ladies in Ginette were 38th. The mens’ vet crews came in 35th and 55th. Saturday and Sunday saw the St.Agnes to St. Mary’s seeding races for the mens’ and ladies’ crews agian with a fair swell or so it seemed to us river rowers. The crews were then placed in classes or heats according to thier ability. There was much excitement with crews climbing up into the next class/heat, even winning some heats. By the final race, which saw the ladies in Tamar and Ginette competing in the same heat, there were the following results Tamar Ladies 74th, and Ginette Ladies (aka Billy’s blondes) 77th, men in Tamar 71st and men in Ginette 92nd. Well done everyone who rowed and coxed, it was challenging but great fun and thank you to all our supporters who are now hoarse.
Detail from the men in Tamar crew (by jh)
The Men’s group arrived on the IOS without even one practice session with all 6 rowers in the boat together, not a good omen for success.
This showed in the first race when the Men’s A struggled to battle through and came in about 88th. Mutiny threatened, glum faces and the general consensus was that we needed to focus.
Heat one, the boat was quiet, each stroke pulled out clean and well, the crew found the missing focus and we absolutely stormed home in 1st position and boy didn’t they all work well. Well done Peter Clarke being dropped in as Cox, Tom Sergeant 6, jh 5, Andy Arscott 4, Matt Pinney 3, Chris Gill 2 and Peter Sellars 1.
This took us up a group.
Heat 2 Almost did the same again but finished 2nd but only by a whisker.
Heat 3 Slight tragedy on the start line as the boat drifted into the big lane buoy and prevented a good start, 4-5 lengths down we battled to make up the ground but we did and drew alongside our closest rival. Gamely we battled but could not get a decent place in that heat. However we made up a lot of lost ground to finish 71st out of 111 (or 109) Not the result we should have achieved but very admirable how the lads battled to pull up those places.
Boy! was it a good club weekend. I think enjoyed immensely by all the groups and members of TnT.
Detail from the ladies
The ladies A and B crews enjoyed excellent rowing with some close and hard fought racing at each level in the IOS championships. The circuit training and practise on the water put in beforehand paid off with good results achieved by both crews.
The A crew came 2nd in their group in the final after some very exciting racing, oh so very narrowly missing a medal and finishing 74th out of 106 overall.
The B crew (aka bliiy’s blondes) had an unlucky start in the long race but after some great rowing , with a near perfect stroke ( according to the commentator ), won one heat, thrid in another and climbed a massive 13 places to finish 77th overall. The coxing was great and gave us all the encouragement we needed. With 100% effort given by both crews it was good start to the season and a weekend of rowing enjoyed by all.
