Eriskay Boat
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Eriskay Boat A thirty-two bar Reel for three couples in a longwise set of five couples, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 4.1- 4 First lady and second man set and change places giving right hand in passing.
5- 8 First man and second lady set and turn with the left hand to finish back to back facing own side of the set. Meanwhile their partners dance half way round the outside to finish on own side of the set, first lady facing second lady and second man facing first man.
9-16 First and second couples dance a reel of four, first couple finish in second place. First man and second lady omit the last left shoulder pass, to dance out to own side.
17-24 First and second couples dance right hands across in a wheel and back with the left hand.
25-32 First and third couples dance rights and lefts.
Repeat from second place, on the next repeat new top couple commences and original top couple repeats from third place.
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 4, by John W Mitchell, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell. Instructions reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-ND 4.0).
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