Yealm Gig Rowing Club

Yealm Gig Rowing Club The club is located on a creek of the River Yealm, nearly 6 miles to the southeast of Plymouth, in the South Hams district of Devon.

The Yealm Gig rowing Club was founded in 1991 and was the first gig club to form outside of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The club’s first gig was bought from Newquay Rowing Club. She was originally known as ‘Unity’ and was renamed ‘Hornet’ by the Yealm (the Hornet is now owned by Port Isaac Gig Club and goes by the name of ‘Unity’ once again). The Club currently owns three gigs: ‘Wasp’, built

by Dave Currah of Looe in 1994, ‘Joker’, also built by Dave Currah in 1997 and ‘Hornet’, our newly launched plastic gig. The club draws most of its membership from the villages of Newton Ferrers and Noss Mayo, situated either side of the creek of the river Yealm. We are principally a social rowing club, with a very active veteran, super veteran and super super veteran membership, enjoying a regular rowing programme, with occasional focussed training sessions for specific events. In the summer holidays we organise junior rowing in the river, weather permitting. We are lucky enough to have the option of rowing out to sea when the weather is fine but, on rough days we can switch to rowing up the River Yealm, where it is more sheltered. The times for rowing practices vary from day to day because our ability to row is tide-dependent. Our focal point is a wooden shed on Noss Hard where more information can be found.

The ladies masters had a fabulous row at the Masters Champs coming in 7th overall 🥳🥳🥳.Big thanks to Fiona from  for hopp...
16/08/2026

The ladies masters had a fabulous row at the Masters Champs coming in 7th overall 🥳🥳🥳.
Big thanks to Fiona from for hopping in ❤️

What a great day at St Stithians lake, hosted by Hayle Pilot Gig Club, thank you for your hospitality! Yealm A girls 9th...
19/07/2026

What a great day at St Stithians lake, hosted by Hayle Pilot Gig Club, thank you for your hospitality!

Yealm A girls 9th
Yealm B Mixed 20th

well done to all competing and supporting! 💪

It’s race day for juniors at the U14 Championships!🚣💙Today our two crews take to the water, and we couldn’t be prouder o...
19/07/2026

It’s race day for juniors at the U14 Championships!🚣💙

Today our two crews take to the water, and we couldn’t be prouder of all the hard work that’s brought them there. 💪

Go Yealm 💙🚣

A beautiful day at Brixham for the Vets Championships! ☀️After Round 1, the ladies were placed into Heat B for the final...
19/07/2026

A beautiful day at Brixham for the Vets Championships! ☀️

After Round 1, the ladies were placed into Heat B for the final. They finished the day with an excellent 19th out of 48 overall—a result to be proud of. Great racing, great company, and a fantastic day on the water! 💪🚣

18/07/2026
A visual representation of what a village club can do!
06/07/2026

A visual representation of what a village club can do!

06/07/2026

Sorry for the lack of updates! Bear with me this is long.

After a fantastic Thursday and Friday we had such a fun and exciting weekend for the whole club, men, women, vets and juniors, but my goodness was it a hot one! 🥵

🎉The Mens Vets🎉 on Saturday had their final and ended with another brilliant race coming 6th out of 19 boats overall, it is such a competitive category and it really was a flat out race!

🤩Ladies A Crew🤩 rowing in Charm, after three HOT HOT HOT races over the weekend the girls were absolutely thrilled to come 17th out of 70 incredible ladies crews.

🥳Ladies B Crew🥳rowing in Wasp (32yr old boat!) did such a fantastic job, showing such grit in all three races coming in 46th out of 70!!!

🔥Mens A Crew🔥 rowing in Charm (with four of our u25 crew and two of the vets crew who both raced SIX times over three days) are the reason we all sound like Harry Kane today with little to no voice left, after winning their second heat and going up into Group A for the final they finished in 11th place out of 52 mens crews! WOW!!!

🎊Mens B Crew🎊 rowing in Wasp, the boys showed such grit and strength keeping her well up there and finishing the weekend 17th out of 52!

😍Under 14's😍 rowing in Wasp, a first race for nearly all of them and believe me those races were HARD rowing and my goodness did they make the club proud, coming home with a SILVER MEDAL for the all boys U14's category!

🤩Under 16's🤩 rowing in Charm, these girls had such a hard category and they showed us all what they were made of, not that we had any doubts, they have consistently shown the club what a strong crew they are! They not only won heat B which was ridiculously exciting for all of us on the beach, but they also WON GOLD for all female U16 crew!!!

Thank you to all of our incredible coxes as well, these were new races and new waters for everyone to row in, navigating the tidal changes and the seeding race line ups, HUGE tug boats headed right for us, the constant crew faffing (we all do that right??) and the launching/ getting boats in! Nailed it!

🤩🤩🤩And I can't finish this without a HUGE shoutout to our YEALM supporters. It was just the most brilliant treat being able to hear you all on the water cheering us along, Sunday especially was a long old day and you didn't leave us! There is nothing like going into your finishing sequence with boats full of people cheering for you.🤩🤩🤩

THE END.

Charm has been tucked up for the night after a brilliant day of racing, the men’s vets ⬇️ back in her first tomorrow mor...
03/07/2026

Charm has been tucked up for the night after a brilliant day of racing, the men’s vets ⬇️ back in her first tomorrow morning, securing a brilliant 5th in their seeding race!

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Noss Hard
Plymouth
PL81EW

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