with Jessie MacLeod (widow of Roderick MacIver)<\/p>
The people here had their own boats, going out with small-lines, but they had boats in Stornoway too. My father had a boat, the Dove and one called Clan MacLeod, and there used to be boys from Point working as cooks on them \u2013 galley-boys \u2013 Angus Man\u2019s boys and Calum a\u2019 Ruide\u2018s boys from Pabail. These boys were with him in the summer, one after another as they grew up. They were on the Dove along with my father. If they heard or saw a woman on their way to the boat, they would turn home \u2013 a woman or a minister.<\/p>
There was a boat in the village called to Comrade<\/em> belonging to Mac a\u2019 Bhogaidh. He was an old man, and there was a man helping him nicknamed Seanair \u2013 grandfather. They were living at Parkend, and he was cook on the boat, and there were other boats about them, and there was the old man on top of the quay shouting for Seanair! The folk around all gathered, waiting to see Mac a\u2019 Bhogaidh\u2019s grandfather coming up!<\/p> I remember the old men of my own day \u2013 Iain Aonghas Saighdear, Solamhs, Tormod na Monadh \u2013 big men coming from the boat. We were just children, and the women were taking the fish up from the boats to the top of the shore. Then they would be laying it out there, and a crewman would be sharing out the fish \u2013 one share for each man on the boat and the boat\u2019s share for selling. You would get sixty haddock for half-a-crown. One man would stand and shout \u2013 Whose is this share and whose is that? until all the shares of fish were put out. They would slide the boats up on pieces of wood. The women would be sitting on creels knitting waiting until the boats came in. Some of the boats used to go to the mainland \u2013 Ness sgoths<\/em> with six oars. They would be up to their chests in the water, especially the one coming to the shore with the painter.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" with Jessie MacLeod (widow of Roderick MacIver) Fishing The people here had their own boats, going out with small-lines, but they had boats in Stornoway too. My father had a boat, the Dove and one called Clan MacLeod, and there used to be boys from Point working as cooks on them \u2013 galley-boys \u2013 Angus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51365,"featured_media":4894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-6305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-village-histories","tag-lewis"],"yoast_head":"\n