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Why You Should Build a Dory

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




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