I have so enjoyed seeing and reading how this initial enquiry has developed. Scotsmum, inspired find indeed 
Harry, that poem of the time is fitting. How did you link to that?!
I thought this would be so hard to find details on, given how hard these boating queries can be...yet, here you all are. Amazing 
Monica
I have a copy of George Gourlay's book and I used it when writing my own book about Cellardyke which was published in 1986. Gourlay mentions another disaster near Caiplie where a Leslie Brown from Cellardyke was drowned, like his father and grandfather in separate accidents before him, and a descendant of that same family was drowned off Cellardyke just a few years ago, having retired back to his home village and bought himself a little boat.
In the first "Nancy" disaster I know of, in 1805, the victims included the brothers Thomas and Alexander Scott, relatives of my 3 x great-grandmother Isabella Scott.
It's nice to see a query on Rootschat about the East Neuk of Fife, although I do have ancestors from further west too!
Harry
