Bateira Chinchorra
It is in the Port of Abrigo (shelter) da Torreira that I have my spout boat also known as chincha or chinchorra, with which the siege art of the same name was practiced. Here in Torreira, fishing for chinchorro, there were seven men in each boat, while on the other side of the estuary, in Murtosa, there were only six. In the past, we even used them to fish at sea. Our way of fishing was peculiar. In the water, close to the bank, there was a fellow with one end of the net cable – the reçoeiro. The boat sailed offshore, we laid down the net, describing a circle, and returned to land, with the other end of the cable – the boat hand. Then, the whole company pulled the net ashore, with the rope over our shoulders so as not to break our hands, as we made more or less 6 hauls a day. In the art of chinchorro we caught everything the estuary had to offer: eels, soles, flounders, mullets or crabs. We only stopped to eat, whenever the tide gave us a break. We went to the shore, prepared the fish - freshly caught, but only the “white fish”, with little value - we asked the farmers at Quintas and Muranzel for some potatoes, lit a fire and made a stew that was then eaten there. really. I no longer do hauls to the edge, but not a single year goes by that I don't take part in the Chinchorros Race, one of the most special and exciting moments of the São Paio da Torreira Pilgrimage.
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