Never heard "The Mingulay Boat Song" then Guest JTT.

Goik pointed out the Highland Clearances, in Scotland but these were not the only "clearances" in Scotland. There were those of the mid-1600's - take a look at the names Graham and McHarg and the reason how the latter came into being - that at the hands of a Scottish Stuart King. There were further clearances in the Scottish Borders brought about by seven years of famine between 1700 and 1707.

Irrespective of type of boat once the boat and gear was sold the fishermen and their families were in a very perilous situation. Are you trying to tell us JTT, that you can't get the strength you need to row a light boat from eating fish? How did they survive all those hundreds of years before the potato arrived on the eastern shores of the Atlantic?