Peedie Lass

This is the name on one of the boats at Cromarty. All regulars to Cromarty will probably know that she sits at the harbour end of the links next to the old sheds where you can catch the ferry across to the otherside in the Summer.
She's been sitting out of the water for at least the last 10 years and her own is said to be 'doing her up' but it looks like she is slowly rotting away but providing plenty of photo opportunities with her flaking paint work and rusty pieces of metal. She also provides a great place for the local populations of sparrows to perch. I was surprised to see several sparrows flying into the sheds with nesting material, including a large feather that one caught mid air. Others were having an icy bath in a puddle and then flying on to the fence to dry out.
I found some info on the internet about her
The Peedie Lass was possibly built  by Ivan Hourston , on Shapinsay , one of the Orkney Islands or in Stromness in about 1975. It is made of larch or mahogany on oak and belonged to a man named Bobby Hogg since 1985 and passed down to his son Robert. I'm not sure who owns it now. it was used for collecting creels. They are descendants from a long line of fisher folk and are the last two fluent speakers of the local 'fisher dialect' 
The word Peedie is an orcadian word for little. There are a few old photos of her online.
And of course whilst in Cromarty we had to have a pizza !