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London Great River Race 2024 in Pinnacle for Flushing and Mylor

27/09 crew profile

Conquering the Thames: A Record-Breaking Gig Row

Recently, I had a fantastic adventure rowing in the Great River Race, an annual event that’s held every autumn and has become known as

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Debbie the skipper of Tallulah is rowing in No 1 seat, in the bows of Killigerran one of the roseland Gig Clubs boats

20/07 Inspiration

What an evening!

A couple of weeks back I had a wonderful evening that only came about in a very ad hoc sort of way. One of

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28/06 History

What’s that smell?

A smelly Story This is a true story that happened when I was skippering Eve of St Mawes. Luckily I am unable to remember

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Pilot Cutter Review 2024 photo by Adam Purser

08/06 Festivals

Pilot Cutter Review 2024 Final Results and full story

Best Pilot Cutter Review for many years This year’s Pilot Cutter Review was the best for many years with eleven cutters joining in. It

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Provident

30/05 Featured Ship

Adam’s day sail On Provident May 27 2024

Provident, Blue Seas and Sky, Dartmouth and 100 years I had a fantastic day sailing on Provident in Brixham on the Late May bank

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Vega Cargo of Hope

17/05 Book Reviews

Cargo of Hope

Voyages of Hope: The Story of Vega The story of the voyages of Vega from 1892 to the present day. This tale concentrates on

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Pilot Cutter Review Spectacle in Fowey

06/04 Educational

Sponsoring the Pilot Cutter Review

Why Sponsorship Matters for the 2024 Pilot Cutter Review The 2024 Pilot Cutter Review requests sponsorship to help cover its costs and ensure a

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05/04 History

My First Tall Ship Experience

Top Tips for your first sailing adventure from customers Don’t feel under pressure everybody learns at different speeds. Its ok to observe for a

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gigs in the scillies

16/03 Educational

Why I love the gig boats. 

I grew up in St Mawes, Classic Sailing’s home base, and learnt to row in the harbour when I was about 7 years old

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Tenacious

08/02 Educational

Tenacious – Heads you win.

Thank you Anne Thank you to Anne for the following response to some articles and posts from Classic Sailing. I have included Anne’s response

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Lord Nelson and Tenacious

23/01 Educational

Tenacious – Such a sad story

Introduction I, Adam, have sailed on tall ships from the UK, Holland, Portugal and Norway in many parts of the world as a humble

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Sailing weekend Sailing on Pilgrim with Classic Sailing

19/01 Educational

Letters to the Editor

About our Four Editors Ask a question, start a discussion, have your say. Any time we publish a letter that we think is super

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Stars at night The Caribbean on a Tall Ship Sailing Morgenster with Classic Sailing

11/01 Shipmates' Stories

Night passage in the shipping lane

Thank you Gregory for sending in his sailing story. If you have an anecdote to share, get in touch! We were flying along under

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