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Gig rowers from Bermuda will take to the waters 28 miles off the coast of Cornwall, England, in the Isles of Scilly for three days of racing for the World Pilot Gig Championships. Fifteen members of the Bermuda Pilot Gig Club will be competing in a t...

Dara Alizadeh hailed his “incredible” Cambridge University crew after they recorded consecutive wins in the Boat Race for the first time in 20 years yesterday. The Bermudian, who was also part of last year’s triumphant crew, helped the Blue Boat cros...

Bermudian Dara Alizadeh’s has retained his seat in the Cambridge men’s crew for the 165th Boat Race on the River Thames next month. The 25-year-old became the first Bermudian male to compete in the annual race between the universities of Oxford and C...

The Bermuda Rowing Association team competed at the Crash-B Sprints in Boston, Massachusetts, at the weekend and returned home with some promising performances. The Crash-B is the World Championship for indoor rowing held every February, in which eac...

Shelley Pearson says she has “unfinished business” in rowing after qualifying for the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, next summer. Pearson contemplated retiring from the sport after representing Bermuda at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazi...

The Argus International Gig Regatta 2018 involved 17 pilot gig crews rowing against each other at three events held around the island last week. The final day of the event, the Bermuda Pilot Gig Club’s second international regatta, was moved to Nort...

Dara Alizadeh is set to embark on six months of interminable training as he strives to retain his seat in the Cambridge men’s crew for the 165th Boat Race. Alizadeh realised his burning ambition when he became the first Bermudian male to take to the ...

From the humble beginnings of the Bermuda Rowing Association’s two-week Learn to Row course in the summer of 2015, Yannick Hillier is now ranked 33rd in the junior world rankings. After just ten months of competitive rowing, Hillier was invited by th...

In the summer of 2015, when he was 14, Yannick Hillier took his first rowing strokes in a two-week summer Learn to Row course offered by the Bermuda Rowing Association. Launching from the BRA’s boathouse on White’s Island, Hillier gained his rowing ...

An eyesore at the West End has been transformed into a centre for a classic Bermudian pursuit that has returned as a sport: pilot gigging. This Saturday, the Bermuda Pilot Gig Club will hold a regatta for spectators out of its new premises on Boaz Is...

Pupils from Mount St Agnes Academy have taken to the sea for their PE lessons. A total of 26 youngsters in Grades 10, 11 and 12 have teamed up this term with the Bermuda Pilot Gig Club for rowing sessions off Spanish Point Boat Club. Samuel Dubois, a...

Jessica Rego always hated the beach but had no such qualms about the ocean. It’s a good thing too. The Bermudian is now preparing to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic, from the Canary Islands to Antigua, with British friends Caroline Wilson and Su...