Martha’s Vineyard Rowing Club
The 2025 “Gig for the Gigs” will be held on April 11th, from 7-10 PM, at the Portuguese American Club. Please join us for a fun evening out in support of the Rowing Club!
Learn more by following the MV Rowing Club Facebook Page
Rowing Club Membership: $250
- Allows unlimited access to rowing
- Newsletter and email notifications of events and courses
- Discount Continuing Education Course fees
Cornish pilot gigs are exceptional open water rowing boats, made to venture out in big seas and traditionally used as life/rescue boats, to deliver pilots to incoming sailing vessels and to smuggle between the Cornish coast and France. Two 32′ gigs were built at Five Corners and Gannon & Benjamin Boatyard between 2004-2006. Each gig is lapstrake planked with white cedar on oak ribs, using over 1500 copper rivets and additional bronze screws, with an angelique keel, stem, and sternpost. Nearly 50 men, women, and youth volunteered to work weekends under the direction of Nat Benjamin, Ross Gannon, and Myles Thurlow, to loft build, plank, and finish Grace and Cassie.
The group of over forty rowers participating in this community program have competed in the Weir River Race, the MV Oar and Paddle Race, Round Minot Light Race, the Snow Row in Hull and the Sail MV sponsored Vineyard Cup Pilot Gig Race.
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