Boats & Kit

EQUIPMENT

Gigs for Sale – Click Here 

Oars

  • Sutton Blades – Professional paddle makers since 1971
  • Collars
  • Celtic Oars (Andrew Nancarrow)
  • L & M Pezzack
  • Kernow Boats (Patrick Bird)

 

Pins

 

Clothing

  • Godfrey Sports – Specialize in rowing kit, send them your logo and they will set up a page for your Gig Club, your members can then go online and order direct.
  • Agame – race tops, gillets, jackets, hoodies and more. Club ‘stores’ set up online for members to buy your club’s kit. Custom designed look of any items if required.

 

Trailers

 

Other

GIG BUILDERS

18 Comments on "Boats & Kit"

  1. ben bradley

    hi there,

    I’m looking for spare wooden pins soft and hard for our hackers yard gig over here on the east coast. do you know where i can buy them ?

    best

    ben bradley

    • Hi Ben

      I don’t know if you are sorted for pins, I make Greenheart hard pins and Yellow pine soft pins. I can make them to your specification. Let me know if I can help.
      Cheers
      Alan

  2. Jerry Boaden

    Wanted, any odd gig oars: Bristol Charity ‘All-Aboard’ are looking for second hand gig oars, up to 4 of, or more? Must have serviceable shafts/looms (but Blade condition immaterial!). Any donations welcome, or reasonable price paid. Please contact Mob: 07779857743.

  3. Hi there. WANTED: FLATBACKS FOR ST AYLES SKIFF
    Loch Ewe Community Skiff Group has nearly completed building a St Ayles skiff according to the requirements laid down by the Scottish Coastal Rowing Association. The next challenge is to acquire oars. There are FOUR rather than six oars and they must be flat (although the for’ard face of the blade can be curved to accommodate the spine of the oar), so more or less symmetrical about a horizontal plane through the shaft axis. Length is up to us: Groups seem to use anything from 11 ft (Stroke: usually 11 to 13 ft) to 17 ft (2 & 3: usually 15 to 16 ft; Bow 12 to 14 ft). The skiff is 22 ft long and 5 ft 8 ins in the beam. We are using the thole pin system (rather controversial up here) so I think leather is preferable to plastic collars. The oars have to be wood and no metals/carbon is permitted. We are a motley bunch so light (hollow?) oars would be ideal. We’re not a wealthy Group, so second-hand flatbacks in reasonable condition would be considered. Please help us if you can. Thank you.

    • I am sure by now you are sorted. But we aware that the Skiff Factory in Havant now makes all sorts of things for St Ayles Skiffs. Not just the boats – bare hulls or finished boats – but also cushions; covers; oars; trailers and leathers.

      Oars start from £300 for a set of solid, robust, Juniors oars; through hollow ladies/youth to hollow long, race men’s oars £600 for a set. All compliant with Class standards. We also do short junior oars for 6-8 kids to row together for fun!

  4. Richard Knott

    I am looking for images / designs / information that might allow me to build or commission a replica Cornish skiff.

    My family had two Goss built Calstock skiffs which my father re-built / renovated in the 1950s or so. My father raced these all around SE Cornwall (a Torpoint crew) with, I believe, some success. I helped him rebuild the better one again in the 1980s and spent my teenage years rowing this very quick boat all around the Tamar and Lynher estuaries. She was damaged in an easterly storm and my father cut her up before we could discuss repairs to the transom / planking.

    Unfortunately, Dad passed away recently I and have lost the knowledge and expertise that might have allowed us to build a replica. The only other boat that I have seen with similar lines was her Goss sister – and the much larger Cornish Gigs. I have some photos (of our boat), and want to try and draw up some plans. The Cornish skiffs I’ve seen online / on here are much broader in beam (and presumably slower…!?)

    Any help much appreciated – either in terms of contacts, website links, historical info on Goss / SE Cornwall regattas etc.

    Thanks

    • Gill Gibson

      Rame gig club has a number of oars for sale without the leathers. Let me know how many you require and i will check out our store.
      Gill Gibson
      Chair of Rame

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