Porth and Gigs Archaeology – Final Project Update
We have been following this project over the past year and have been fascinated by all the amazing findings. Thanks to Cathy Parkes from Cornwall...More
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Porths & Gigs Beneath The Tides
Cornwall Archaeological Unit (CAU), with volunteer trainees from Scilly and Cornwall, have been surveying and scanning sites of the traditional pilot gig sheds on the...More
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Modern Day Pilot Gig Race To PS Waverley
Written by Ginny Farrell and produced by Robin Johnston. In what promises to be a hotly fought 2,600 metre race out to the world’s oldest...More
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Under Your Feet, Beneath Your Boats And In Front Of Your Eyes
Written by Anne Curnow Care. This evening from 21:00 onwards many beacons will be lit across the country in commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of...More
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Uncovering Gig Shed Heritage
Meet Cathy Parkes, a Senior Archaeologist with the Cornwall Archaeological Unit (CAU) and a passionate rower with the Roseland Gig Club. Cathy has combined her...More
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Gigs Under Sail
With members of our community preparing to row and sail a Bantry Bag Gig on the River Fowey in August, we thought it would be...More
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Voyage to Bishop Rock Lighthouse
The Isles of Scilly is said to hold the record for the highest concentration of shipwrecks in the world off its shores, with counts of...More
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A Sea Shanty Story: Femmes de la Mer
Gig rowing and sea shanty groups have a deep connection in the UK, where the two are intertwined with the country’s rich maritime heritage. ...More
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Celebrating 75 Years of Maurice Hunkin
On Saturday 4th February, Fowey Gig Club hosted a very special celebration, the 75th birthday of gig builder Maurice Hunkin. Fowey Gig Club arranged...More
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A Landmark Year for Female Athletes
In August 2022, The Royal St John’s regatta (the oldest organised sporting event in North America) off the coast of Newfoundland made a landmark decision...More
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CPGA Online Archive Goes Live
The all new Cornish Pilot Gig Association archive is now being uploaded for all to enjoy. The archive is the result of eighteen months of...More
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Digital Gig Rowing Archive Well Underway
Thousands of unique stories and photographs, dating back to the 1920s, have already been donated to a new online digital archive on the traditional Cornish...More
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Lottery Grant Awarded to CPGA to create historical archive
The Cornish Pilot Gig Association (CPGA) has been awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £39,000 to support their project entitled ‘Pulling Together The Past’....More
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The University Boat Race & Cornish Pilot Gigs
The 163rd University Boat Race will take place on April 2nd 2017. What have Cornish Pilot Gigs got to do with the 1st Oxford & Cambridge...More
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An Absolute Wreck – New book includes gig references
John Hicks QC, son of a Scilly islander and great-nephew of the pilot killed in the wreck of the Thomas W. Lawson, has written a...More
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The more things change, the more they stay the same…
As the gig rowing fleet gears up for the 25th World Pilot Gig Championships on the Isles of Scilly in 2014, and the level of...More
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0Cornish Life Article :: July 1987
Thank you to Anne CC for this article from ‘Cornish Life’ in 1987, a great read about Ralph Bird and some Pilot Gig history. Download...More
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