Burnham-on-Sea Gig Rowing Club

21/09/2025

Great River Race 2025 - A massive 21.6 miles from Millwall to Ham - 28 bridges and 265 boats on the water!! Results Morgan 2hr51, JC 3hr08 Avovet 3hr20 great to see so many gigs on the water and boats of all shapes and sizes!!! Obligatory drink at the White Swan after the race 🍻
Huge thanks to all who make this event happen for for our club!

15/09/2025

With less than a week to go the crews are working hard getting the gigs ready for our big trip to the city! 21.6 miles and 28 iconic bridges with over 300 boats taking part this is always a race to remember 🚣💪

27/04/2025

Today marked the last training session before our crews head out to the Isle of Scilly for the World Pilot Gig Championships next weekend. We had a super high tide and very calm seas! Everyone has trained on and off the water over winter and for some of our members it’s their first time competing at the biggest event on the gig calendar!!
Huge thanks to all our members who have jumped in and helped with sessions. Good luck Team Brue!! See you on the Island 😎

09/03/2025

A super Saturday of rowing!! 2 crews headed down to Saltash for Carandons annual 3Rivers event - a tough 10K race in challenging conditions with the ladies completing the course in 1hr 8 mins and the men in 58mins. Both crews beat last years times set and the challenge has been raised for next year!!!!
Back at home Avocet was out with a very enjoyable row across the sea front. Countdown for the Scillies is now on 🚣😎

01/03/2025

What a super sunrise this morning! 2 early rows getting in the training for upcoming 3Rivers! Steart island… the low light house and the river Parrett making the most of that 11.3m tide!!

28/02/2025

Oh yeah!!!! 🚣😎💪

The champs course looking absolutely stunning today☀️

Just 62 days to go til we’re all back on the islands ready for our first day of racing!

Conditions like today would be nice!😜🤞

03/01/2025

Happy new year to all our followers… we ve been lucky to witness some rather spectacular sunrises on this cold and frosty new year! Lots being planned for another super year on the water.

01/11/2024

Following on from a super Saturday in Poole the gig has been out on some lovely early morning and sunset rowing almost every day this week! With the clocks changing and favourable rowing conditions we have been making good use of the opportunity!!
November brings us closing light but we will row as much as we can! 🚣‍♂️💪 thanks to Claire for the super sunset photo from the shore 👏👏.

20/10/2024

Yesterday our crews with JC headed to Poole for their 5 island regatta! A superb day of racing with the best of the weather and our last regatta of 2024. Unfortunately due to high winds the social row around Brownsea island planned for today was cancelled! Back at home Portishead borrowed Avocet for 3 crews to have a training session - lovely high spring tide and a great morning on the water. Forecast bad weather cancelled rowing for this morning but we hope to be out again very soon!! 🚣‍♂️ The 5 Islands - Gig Race

13/10/2024

Superb day at Clevedon’s Regatta, local clubs present Bristol,Porlock,Portishead and WSM…
we coped well with the challenging conditions and great close racing across the bay 💪🚣 thanks to Clevedon’s shore crew and everyone who helped get us all in and out safely!!! 👏👏

10/09/2024

We are looking forward to our next huge event on the rowing calendar… The Great River Race on the Thames is just a few weeks away!!! Training is going well especially for 3 of our intrepid rowers Tony Gore, Stacey Knight and John Ford who are also running the equivalent distance the following day making it 2 marathons 2 days!!! With 2 crews going we are raising money for our local hospital in Burnham and the Farming Community Network 2 charities very close to us all. Donations to these worthy causes are very much appreciated and we can’t wait to hit the water and take on the GRR challenge! A big thank you to all our supporters and followers 💪🚣😊

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28/07/2024

Our crews had an amazing time racing at River Teign Rowing Club today! Thanks for hosting this wonderful event!

Well earned ice pops and a pint or two at the end of the Round Island Race. 🍺

A tough 12 plus miles along beautiful coastline in hot weather. Racing from Teignmouth towards Torquay and back, rounding Thatcher rock and the Ore stone today.

The only ladies gig team in the race!

Well done to everyone that took part!