Net dryers on beach in Mošćenička Draga
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Net dryers on beach in Mošćenička Draga
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Net dryers, used for drying cotton nets after fishing, were installed on the beach and on the quay in Mošćenička Draga. Cotton nets had to be dried because wet nets made of natural material would rot very quickly. Therefore, the nets were preserved by occasional dyeing and dried every time after fishing. So, every day after fishing and returning to the port, the fishermen had to unload the nets from the boats and put them on the dryers, and then during the day or in the evening before fishing, take them off the dryers and load and stow them on the boats. There were several types of dryers. The most common were made of two trunks with forks at the top that were driven into the ground (sand) and placed vertically, and a sufficiently strong wooden stake laid horizontally in the fork. The dryers on the quay had one side of a wooden pole inserted into the wall, so they were made with only one vertically placed trunk with forks. The number of dryers depended on the number or size of nets. Cotton nets were stretched and passed over horizontally placed stakes. On the beach, the dryers were sometimes made of a series of vertically placed thicker poles, so the net would stretch between them, and the top of the poles would be lifted with a rope. Recently, the nets on the quay have been dried over the fence of the road that runs just above the quay. It is interesting in Mošćenička Draga, where tourism began to develop relatively early, that the beach was used at the same time by fishermen who dried nets and tourists who sunbathed and swam.
