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three Cadgwith gigs:
Socoa
The
second of our gigs came is "Socoa".
Built in 1990 by John Moore of Mevagissey.
"Socoa" was built as a sailing ship,
but is now used for rowing.
She
was named after a French sailing ship that
got stranded off the Cadgwith coast in 1906.
The
Socoa was was stranded off the coast at Cadgwith
in 1906. It was refloated on 31 July 1906
after her 50,000 barrels of cement had been
thrown overboard. It had been heading for
San Francisco from France to assist the rebuilding
after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Below:
Shows Socoa, three masted sailing ship partly
submerged at sea.


2006,
Mens B in Socoa,
Cox = Jeb preston, Tony Halliday, Charlie
Day Smith, those in in
photo: Ales Mesropians, Mark peters, Josh
Legge and Liam Williams
(great action pic, look at those
oars bending!, with Tregarthen's from the
Isles of Scilly)


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