The crew of the Golden Eagle at the 2013 World Pilot Gig Champs. Photo: Imogen Bone
Alasdair Moore, our friend from Tresco, gives us the inside scoop on what it’s actually like to take part in the World Pilot Gig Championships.
The crew of the Golden Eagle at the 2013 World Pilot Gig Champs. Photo: Imogen Bone
Alasdair Moore, our friend from Tresco, gives us the inside scoop on what it’s actually like to take part in the World Pilot Gig Championships.
We are looking for an experienced and motivated person to join the friendly Marketing team at our head office in Falmouth.
Photo: Adam White
Our friend Alasdair Moore is lucky enough to live on the beautiful island of Tresco and will be taking part in the World Pilot Gig Championships this weekend. He is our man on the front line and will be keeping us up to date with events over the weekend as they unfold…

We have a position for a flexible, customer focused sales assistant for the summer season in our Guernsey shop. Retail experience is desirable, more importantly a natural drive to help customers, represent the Seasalt brand and work with great clothing and a strong team could secure you the job.
Ed is our logistics manger, responsible for the brilliant team that gets all our parcels out on time and looking beautiful! He’ll be heading over to the Isles of Scilly this weekend as cox for the Helford men’s A Crew…
Padstow is packed out for the annual Obby Oss festival to celebrate May Day and the first day of summer!
Two ‘osses’, known as the ‘old’ and the ‘blue ribbon’, take to the streets and the entire town, dressed in white, follows one or the other depending on family loyalties. The ‘osses are huge stylised horse costumes worn by members of the groups and the celebrations start when the blue oss is released from it’s stable at 10am and then the other released at 11am from home.
We have part-time/full time roles available in our Online Customer Services Team including working weekends, evenings and holidays. We are looking for someone who can deliver excellent customer service, who is friendly and can be flexible and adaptable in supporting peak business times.
The 24th World Pilot Gig Championships will take place on the Isles of Scilly this weekend, racing the finest crews against each other in a heated battle – all very exciting stuff!
We’re starting to get more than a bit excited about the imminent World Pilot Gig Championships. Every year hundreds of people train for months in prep for the event and head out to the Isles of Scilly on the May bank holiday to compete in one of the biggest gig gatherings in the world. And lots of people here at Seasalt either go along to take part or as spectators! We caught up with a few competitors this year to find out a little bit more…
Name: Katie
Seasalt job: Assistant garment technologist
We have vacancies for friendly, customer focused sales assistanst in our Fowey shop, these are part time posts, to include weekends and holidays. Retail experience is desirable, more importantly a natural drive to help customers, represent the Seasalt brand and work with great clothing and a strong team could secure you the job.