Two decades of high-level experience in marine business and a lifetime’s knowledge of the sea has seen Tristan Rowe appointed as Falmouth Harbour’s new Head of Commercial Operations.

Tristan will be looking to the wide horizons of sustainable growth and development for Falmouth Harbour for the benefit of all the Trust Port’s community, customers and stakeholders.

As a Harbour leisure “user” with lifelong sailing and watersports credentials, he also spent the last twenty years of his career working on the after-sales and commercial operations of Cockwells Boatbuilding in Mylor, Falmouth’s Pendennis Shipyard and MacGregor Yachts International.

In his new role Tristan’s strategic focus will be on longer term growth for Falmouth Harbour – working closely with CEO Miles Carden to generate new, profitable, innovative business streams and projects. In addition to this important role he is tasked with improving customer services and the wider range of Harbour services.

“It will be fantastic to welcome Tristan Rowe to our incredible team at Falmouth Harbour,” says Miles Carden. “We are at a pivotal stage in our growth plan and from 2025 we want to move and accelerate our plans to improve our offer to customers and realise the potential from new marine technologies.

“We still have challenges ahead, but Tristan’s marine business experience will be key to our success and we are all very much looking forward to working with him.”

Tristan lives in Falmouth and alongside his new role as the Harbour’s Head of Commercial Operations, he can be found sailing or working on his Cornish Crabber Mk1 boat and generally spending as much time on the water as possible with the family.

“I’ve had the incredible good fortune to have grown up, lived and worked on and around Falmouth Harbour – one of the all-round best harbours in the world – for most of my life,” says Tristan, “and I am so very excited to join the Falmouth Harbour team in a role that supports, promotes and grows the vast potential we have here.

“I look forward to channelling my marine business experience into continuing Falmouth Harbour’s legacy locally, nationally and globally – ensuring we do so in a way that adds value to our town and our home, as well as to the millions that visit us each year.

“I am passionate that all stakeholders are represented fairly and we continue to improve the access and safe use of Falmouth Harbour for all to enjoy.  My experience in the Marine industry over the last 20 years has shown me that there is nowhere I would rather be than these waters.”

Tristan is taking up the Commercial Operations role inaugurated by Holly Manvell, who, after a hand-over period, is stepping aside to further her trustee roles and grow the global not-for-profit organisations she founded during the last four years; Clean Sailors, the Clean Sailors Youth Racing Team and the international platform for end-of-life marine materials, ReSail. 

Falmouth Harbour is a Trust Port with a statutory duty to sustainably and safely manage the harbour to the benefit of the local economy and the environment as well as local stakeholder communities and customers. Tristan’s maritime pedigree will further strengthen the Harbour team’s capacity to fulfil its mission into the future.

For more on the work of Falmouth Harbour including its wide range of commercial and environmental initiatives see www.falmouthharbour.co.uk