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2023 welcomes the 32nd World Pilot Gig Championships to be held, as usual, over the first May Spring Bank Holiday weekend – 28th - 30th April. The biggest event never disappoints bringing both spectacle and colour in one fell swoop. The Championships were first held in 1990, only attracting a few crews from Cornwall, but in the intervening years the amount of pilot gigs attending has increased with crews coming from all over the South-West and now the world. Exact details for race times and an introduction to the sport, scroll our stunning new official programme below.