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Why You Should Build a Dory

Dories are one of the few hundreds ofthe surf, fishing in the open ocean,
year old boat designs to have surviveddrifting down whitewater rivers, water
into the 21st century, and for goodskiing in lakes, as work boats hauling
reason. Their sea keeping abilities,heavy loads of traps or divers, sailing
slippery shapes, extreme versatility,along on a light breeze, just about any
and ease of construction make them oneuse you can imagine. They also do it
of the best choices for a first-time orwith far less effort than many other
veteran boat builder looking for a greatkinds of boats. Imagine going 25 mph
boat able to be built on a budget.using only 25 horsepower in a 20 foot
Dories began appearing over 200 yearsboat - a dory can do it. Imagine a 20
ago as small, light, versatile workfoot row boat that one person can row up
boats ideal for fishing. They were easyto the hull speed of 6 knots with ease
to construct, easy to launch from theover long distances - a dory can do it.
beach, easy to row or sail, and couldImagine loading 8 tons of cargo on a 27
haul a huge load of gear and fish. Nofoot boat and powering it in the open
one knows exactly where the design cameocean - a dory can do it.
from but many builders startedModern dories are surprisingly easy to
constructing these boats on both sidesbuild. All of the frame elements are
of the Atlantic. In Europe dories werestraight. You can literally go to any
popular in Portugal, and in the US, Novalumber yard, buy pre-milled construction
Scotia was the center of dorygrade lumber, screw and glue it
construction. Dories were usedtogether, cover it with plywood, and
extensively to fish the Grand Banks, oneviola - you have a dory. No exotic
of the most important cod fishingmaterials, no specialized tools, no
locales in the world at that time.special techniques are required. If you
Many people think that flat bottomedcan build a sawhorse, you can build a
boats, as most dories are, are somehowdory. Most modest sized dories can be
less seaworthy than boats of some otherbuilt in a few dozen hours for a few
bottom shape. Nothing could be fartherhundred dollars. All you need to do is
from the truth. When you load a doryto ensure the designer of the dory you
down, with its flared sides, the boatselect has designed his boat to be made
gets more and more stable. As an examplefrom standard sized lumber. Some of the
of how seaworthy dories are, in 1876 aold fashioned designs call for unusual
man named Alfred Johnson took a dare insizes you have to spend many hours
a Gloucester, Massachusetts bar tosizing down the lumber before you can
single handedly sail across the Atlanticstart building.
in an open dory. He chose a 20 foot doryWith modern epoxy, and the new
which he named Centennial to commemoratepolyurethane "Gorilla Glue" type glues,
the 100 year anniversary of the Unitedyou can build strong, safe dories, even
States that year. He fitted with sailsif you're not an expert wood craftsman.
and a centerboard, and on June 15th setThese glues fill gaps well, so there is
off from Gloucester for England. Heno need to carefully fit and expertly
arrived in Liverpool on August 21st 1876clamp each joint in the hull framing.
after crossing one of the mostWith fiberglass and epoxy, you can even
treacherous stretches of water in theuse non-marine grades of plywood also.
world, the North Atlantic. He survived aThe flexible and exceptionally strong
major gale and some horrid seas in acoating of epoxy and fiberglass on the
flat bottomed, open boat with nooutside seals the hull as well as adding
flotation or self bailing decks!strength and abrasion resistance. Unlike
Modern dories come in a number ofolder polyester resin based fiberglass,
variants. There are those optimized forwith epoxy, there is no specialized
rowing, sail, power, high power, wildapplication techniques needed for boat
white water, and more. Almost everybuilding. You just lay the cloth on the
possible boating use or preference canplywood then wet it down with resin
be accommodated in some kind of dory.applied with a brush or roller. It's
Dories are used for launching throughsimple.



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