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Dory, Dorey, Dori

a little about these rowboats

by T.S. Drownemail: [email protected]: 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

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