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The dory is an old style of rowboat that has a rich history and varied use. It has been stacked on schooners and used to fish the Grand Banks by people from North Atlantic countries including the US, Canada, France, Spain, the UK, and Ireland. It has been used as a lifeboat or tender. It has been sailed transatlantic in 1903 by a former fisherman who lost his fingers. It has been rowed transatlantic. It is used to guide people through rapids, such as in the Grand Canyon. It has been enlarged and used as a hull design for small cabin-cruisers. Its iconic look and beautiful lines makes its popularity enduring. I built one and launched it in 2007.
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Dory, Dorey, Dori
a little about these rowboats
by T.S. Drownemail: tyler@drown.orgflickr: tsdrowntwitter: @tsdrownweb: http://ts.drown.org
The dory is a flat-bottomed boat, lightweight with a sharp bow…
Dories have a narrow ‘tombstone’ transom
South Haven Dory“Alison”
T.S.Drown (me)
It’s a working boat
flickr: KGBKitchen
flickr: mharrsch
with a long historyin the NorthAtlantic
from New England
flickr: bawoodvine
to Nova Scotia
flickr: R0gueWarri0r
to Brittany
Wikimedia: Musée d'histoire de Saint-Malo
to Normandy
Flickr:abac077
to Scotland
flickr: rmainuk
to Oregon rivers
US Army Corps of Engineers via Wikimedia
to Southern California
flickr: Orange County Archives
to the Grand Canyon
flickr: meadowmom
stacked on the decks of schooners
flickr: InAweofGod’sCreation
set sail for the Grand Banks
Gloucester Harbor and Dory (1880) Winslow Homer
fishermen rowed out and cast their nets
The Herring Net (1885) Winslow Homer
and rowed back
The Fog Warning (1885) Winslow Homer
the dories could even tow their mothership
Lunenburg, Nova Scotiahttp://meiere.com/rob/NovaScotiaExtra/extra.html
Some are builtcarvel-panked
flickr: lenscrack The Dory Shop in Gloucester, Mass.
or clinker planked (lapstrake), with overlapping boards
Others built using the stitch-and-glue
plywood-glasscloth-epoxyComposite method
South Haven Dory“Lobo De Mar II”
Scott Wolfhttp://cruisenews.net/dory/
Some are restored
flickr: saamiam
and some sit in decay
flickr: michaelcr
Howard Blackburna Gloucester fisherman/barkeepsailed across the
Atlantic alone a 3rd time in adory in 1903…fingerless
capeannhistoricalmuseum.org and sandybay.org
this dorywas rowed across the Atlantic by Sidney Genders in 1969
blogspot: ROWING FOR PLEASURE
Some have motors
http://www.ghboats.com
some have sailsflickr: photoholic1
enlarges the dory and makes it into a
cabin-cruiser
St. Pierre DoryNexus Marine
nexusmarine.com
this design
but most dories are great for rowing. flickr: PAVDW
flickr: KGBKitchen
Dory, Dorey, Dori
email: tyler@drown.org
flickr: tsdrown
twitter: @tsdrown
web: http://tyler.drown.org
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