Warm colours in evening sun.

Anstruther harbour. An old fishing harbour, nowadays redeveloped and catering for leisure and small fishing vessels. There are 100 serviced pontoon berths for leisure craft and hundreds of metres of quayside, some shellfish were being landed this evening. There’s also a lifeboat station, and a picturesque row of shops. It’s very busy in summer. As a family we’ve come here for years. There’s always something to see.
We walked around to the beach by the lifeboat shed and saw the St Ayles skiff setting off on a training night - rowed by 4 of a crew with it’s coxswain. At first they went beyond the breakwater into open water; later we spotted a less experienced crew training in the harbour (in the photo). The boat design was commissioned by The Scottish Fisheries Museum in 2009 as the vessel for The Scottish Coastal Rowers project. It is sold as a kit boat and several hundred have been sold worldwide now. The design is based on a Fair Isle skiff.