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    A gig /ˈɡɪɡ/ is a type of boat. It was optimised for speed under oar, but usually also fitted with a sailing rig for appropriate conditions. The type was...
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    The Cornish pilot gig is a six-oar rowing boat, clinker-built of Cornish narrow-leaf elm, 32 feet (9.8 m) long with a beam of 4 feet 10 inches (1.47 m)...
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  • Captain's gig Car-boat Car float Catamaran Center console Chundan vallam Coble Cog Coracle Cornish pilot gig Crash rescue boat Cuddy boat Cutter Currach...
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    heavy storm in 1840, Captain Charles Wilkes brought the captain's gig (small boat) into the harbor for protection. Later, with the publication of Wilkes'...
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  • Mebius KGIG-LP ("104.9 The Gig"), an FM radio station licensed to Modesto, California, US Gig (boat), a type of boat Gig (carriage), a two-wheeled sprung...
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    of the boat and a railing around the bow that allows the "gigger" to stand up and peer out in front of the boat in an attempt to locate and gig fish. The...
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    broader than the long-boat and used for the transfer of goods (6) the jolly boat, used for light work; (7) the gig, a long narrow boat, employed for expeditious...
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    New York Harbor. The boats range from 14 to 22 ft in length, the larger requiring two people to row them. The 25 ft Whitehall gig requires four rowers...
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  • A larger type of Gig (boat), a ship's boat galley slave, a slave rowing in a galley Galley (kitchen), the kitchen of a ship or boat (also airplane or...
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  • Flyboat (redirect from Fly-boat)
    22-ton loads at 10 mph as late as 1847. They were also called "swift boats" or "gig boats". Occurring a year after the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester...
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  • interspersed with each other: a group of men dressed as undertakers in a Cornish gig boat, the band dressed in white monk robes (the members apart from Harry play...
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  • Rowing Edon TS515 Sculling Boats Gig Harbor Boat Works Leo Coastal Rowing LiteBoat Little River Marine Maas Boat Company Peinert Boat 1 Australia (wavecutter)...
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    courts. Maritime activities include a popular yacht club and a Gig boat club with three boats which now[when?] competes in the world championships.[citation...
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    The Dolphin Club, also known as the Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club, is an athletic club in San Francisco, California. It caters to open water swimming...
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    Rowing (redirect from Row boat)
    mechanically attached to the boat, and the rower drives the oar like a lever, exerting force in the same direction as the boat's travel; while paddles are...
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    August 12, 2016. Fiberglass Scamp by Gig Harbor Boat Works Video - SCAMP Active Capsize Dick Herman & Friends, "A Boat Called Scamp", Small Craft Advisor...
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  • Mabel arranges for the crew to participate in a one-time heroin smuggling gig with Weeks, her mother’s partner. Despite the crew’s acceptance, Tom fears...
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    The World Pilot Gig Championships are an annual gig racing event held on the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom during the May Day bank holiday weekend....
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  • rowing, canoeing, swimming, and fell-walking. He stroked the four-oar gig boat that won the White Rose Challenge Cup in 1886 and in August of the previous...
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  • A.M." "Rattle That Lock" "What Do You Want from Me" "The Great Gig In the Sky" "A Boat Lies Waiting" "Wish You Were Here" "In Any Tongue" "High Hopes"...
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    Silent disco (redirect from Silent Gig)
    Radio Avalon.[citation needed] In May 2000, BBC Live Music held a "silent gig" at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, where the audience listened to a band...
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  • 2014, with an audience of 4.2 million. Ray Mears loses a £10,000 speaking gig at the forthcoming Caravan, Camping and Motorhome Show after he described...
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  • band's previous works, and features elements of funk, bop and blues. "Boat Gig" is the only track on the album that contains singing, with vocals by drummer...
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    Blazer (redirect from Boating blazers)
    HMS Harlequin being turned out in harlequin suits. As late as 1837 the gig's crew of HMS Blazer were dressed by their Captain in jackets of blue and...
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  • The Cornish Pilot Gig Association (or CPGA) is a body which governs the sport of Cornish pilot gig racing. As of March 2023 it is made up of 88 clubs and...
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    thwart in a small boat, or many in a larger boat, especially if several oarsmen need to be accommodated. A thwart is a part of a boat that usually has...
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    Hope & Faith. He was a late regular on Happy Days, Dynasty and The Love Boat and is known for playing the villainous role of Stan Gable in the film Revenge...
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    Kid (1982), Surf II (1984), Toy Soldiers (1984), Once Bitten (1985), The Gig (1985) and Fletch Lives (1989). Little returned to the New York stage in...
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    as life-boats, mooring boats, boat for kedge operations, supply boats, boat for works alongside the ship (painting, etc.), boat for communication with...
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    boats are constantly being built to satisfy the demand. The Cornish gig has been adopted by rowers in the Netherlands and there is a successful gig club...
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