At Grannie Island's ceilidh, the Lady Author tells a story about the time some wild men from the nearby island of Bickersay came across the sea to challenge Hugh Handy, the master boat builder of Struay, for the title of best boat builder of the isles. Everyone on Struay was afraid of the noisy, argumentative Bickersay men but Hugh Handy had a clever plan to make them behave themselves!