BEFORE the days of motorisation the creel boats were all double-enders, 'fifie'-type boats of about 25ft long. These rigged one lugsail and the harbours teemed with such craft, lying alongside their larger counterparts engaged in the herring fishery.
Busy harbours stretched all along the firth taking in places such as Lower Largo, Elie, St Monans, Pittenweem, Anstruther, Cellardyke, Crail and even as far as St Andrews around past Fife Ness. Today that has all gone and only Pittenweem has a fleet of any consequence with the others merely supporting a few creelers.
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