The Banks dory is a narrow-bottomed, slab-sided boat with a very narrow transom used for fishing off the Grand Banks of Nova Scotia, Canada during the 19th century. These boats were inexpensive to build, and stacked on the decks of larger fishing vessels. Dories came into use once it was discovered that handlining for cod was more successful than fishing for them from the larger mother ships.
Banks dories have long overhangs, both bow and stern, to help lift them over large waves. They were usually manned by two rowers, or 'dory mates'. They would usually set out from the mother ship in the morning and return by sunset with the day's catch.
A Banks dory is seen in Winslow Homer's painting The Fog Warning.
Banks dories have been capable of surviving long voyages, some unintentional, when the fishermen became seperated from their mother ships. One of the more famous adventures was by Howard Blackburn, who survived 5 days in the North Atlantic in January.
The Banksdory is a narrow-bottomed, slab-sided boat with a very narrow transom used for fishing off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland since the 16th century.
Dories came into use once it was discovered that handlining for cod was more successful than fishing for them from the larger mother ships.
Banksdories have been capable of surviving long voyages, some unintentional, when the fishermen became separated from their mother ships.
The dory is a small flat-bottomed fishing boat with high sides that is narrower aft then she is a front.
The convenient shape of the dory made it easily stackable on the deck of schooners where they would be piled high during transport to and from the banks.
Their dory's are carefully lapstreak planked with pine planks and have a spruce and birch stem and stern.
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