Location: Helford Passage, TR11 5LB

Date: Saturday 9th March 2019

 

 

 

Welcome to your day of racing and socialising. We hope you have a great day. Soup, hot drinks & cakes and a BBQ serving bacon rolls & burgers are all available from the Gazebo. The Ferryboat Inn has very kindly offered visitors the use of their loos. Please support and respect the pub, its seating and its clients and only use pub seating (inside or out) if you are a customer of the pub.

 

 

PROGRAMME FOR THE DAY

 

08:00 to 09:45    Drivers met at the top of hill.

 

Visiting club tow gig to beach when advised to do so.

 

HRGC will help unload gig and stow trailer on beach.

 

Cars parked in Helford Car Park or Trebah Car Park.

 

Please do not walk on the road but use the paths past the pub; this is for safety reasons.

 

10:00     Coxswain’s Meeting near to Ferryboat Inn.

 

Crews need to leave Ferryboat beach 30 mins before race start time.

 

Race Order

 

11:00     Start – Men’s Vets and Super Vets Race

12:00     Start – Ladies Vets and Super Vets Race

13:00     Start – Men’s Race – Heat 1 (long race)

14:00     Start – Ladies Race – Heat 1 (long race)

15:00     Start – Men’s Race – Final (short race)

16:00     Start – Ladies Race – Final (short race)

16:30 to 17:30    Visiting clubs recover gig to trailer and secure.

HRGC will tow gig to top of the hill.

 

17:30     Prize giving outside Ferryboat Inn.

 

 

Racing

 

Coxswains to attend safety and race briefing.

 

High Tide 0650 5.24m: Low Tide 1320 0.62m: High Tide 1907 5.06m

 

Please keep VHF radio always on Ch 72.

 

Do not go inside The Voose north cardinal mark.

 

Gigs over the line at the start may be disqualified.

 

Course may vary.

 

Will be advised at Cox’s meeting.

 

 

Safety

 

Please read and communicate to your crews our Mini Scillies Risk Assessment 2019

 

Only park at Trebah, Helford Passage Car Park or on the left-hand side of the approach road to Helford Passage (‘top of the hill’); you will be directed.

 

Please do not walk on the road between the car park and Ferryboat beach – due to trailer movement. Use steps beside the pub or walk up under the arch to the car park.

 

Please listen and follow instructions from marshals for moving, unloading and loading of Gigs.

 

Coxswains to attend safety and race briefing.

 

Coxswains and any under 18 rowers must wear a lifejacket or buoyancy aid.

 

On leaving or arriving at the beach please follow instructions from the beach marshals.

 

In the event of a crew needing assistance while on the water please use Ch 72 and raise oars, as a visual signal, if safe to do so.

 

Safety boats will be monitoring Ch 72 VHF. First aiders will be present on safety boats and on the beach.

 

 

 

Gig Recovery

 

We aim to clear the beach of gigs as quickly and safely as possible.

 

To do this we ask that visiting clubs recover their gig to their trailer and then assist HRGC members to manhandle the trailer and gig to the road in the order directed by the Beach Marshals.

 

The aim is to get clubs with the furthest to travel away first.

 

 

Entrants

 

 

• Bristol
• Cadgwith
• Coverack
• Devoran
• Falmouth
• Hayle
• FMPGC
• Looe
• Mevagissy
• Mounts Bay
• Penryn
• Roseland
• Teign
• Zennor
• Charlestown
• Boscastle and Crackington
• Porthleven
• Torridge
• Cothele Quay
• Helford Gig Club