The first gig, Liberté, was built at the Apprenticeshop and launched in January 1986 in Rockport, Maine.
Bantry Bay gigs are 38 ft. long, have ten oars, three masts, and a dipping lug rig.
Our Bantry Bay gigs in Belfast, Maine include Loyauté, and Humanité. They have been given French names to honor their French heritage. Both are copies of an Admiral's gig from the 1796 French navy once captured on the shores of Bantry Bay, Ireland, and now exhibited in the Collin's Baracks of the National Museum in Dublin. Humanité was built at the Apprenticeshop in Rockland, Maine in 1997, and Loyauté was built on Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1999.
Our Bantry Bay gigs in Belfast, Maine include Loyauté, and Humanité. They have been given French names to honor their French heritage. Both are copies of an Admiral's gig from the 1796 French navy once captured on the shores of Bantry Bay, Ireland, and now exhibited in the Collin's Baracks of the National Museum in Dublin. Humanité was built at the Apprenticeshop in Rockland, Maine in 1997, and Loyauté was built on Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1999.
The first AC Contest of Seamanship was hosted in NYC in July 1986.