NARRATIVE
ON PRINT - A
peculiar custom is still common at Auchmithie.
It is said to owe its existence to the fact
of there being no pier at the place. The boats
have to be beached every time they return
from sea. The launching is generally done
by the women, who, when the boat is afloat,
take the men on their backs and deposit them
in the boat. They perform this service in
order that the men may not have to sit in
wet clothes when they are at sea. It is a
common practice, but, if the men wear sea-boots,
not an invariable one, for the fishermen on
their return home to be landed in the same
way.
Occasionally there has been talk of building
a pier at Auchmithie, but nothing has been
done as yet towards effecting this improvement.
(Notes by George Hay, 1883)
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