110 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



BOATS. 



Dories, sharpies, and dingeys — Continued. 



11. Four thwart-lasMug.s of buoy line, 3 feet long. 



12. Two pairs of 9-foot ash oars, ziuked in roAvlocks. 



13. Dory plug, v^itli bucket and line attached. 



15. Stern-painter (3 fathoms) bnoy-line, made fast to stern-becket. 



16. Tub of trawl : 



Ground lino, 1,755 feet of 14-pouud tarred cotton line ; 500 No. 

 15 hooks, 3^ feet apart on gi'ound line ; gangings'2 feet long, 

 of white cotton twine (30 threads) ; the trawl in a half flour 

 barrel, with holes in bottom and sides, beckets and lashings 

 spliced in. 



17. Three buoy lines, each 25 fathoms long (one for middle buoy), 



18. One anchor, r2-pound, ring and part of stock served with spun 



yarn ; strap bent into ring. 



19. One killick, 10 pounds, served in eye with sjiun yarn ; strap bent 



into eye. 



20. One quarter-barrel buoy (painted), with black liall, rigged with 



swivels and staff. 



21. One painted quarter barrel for middle buoy ; slung ; no staff; 



swivels ; buoy line Avound around. 



22. One painted kit for buoy with staff, swivel, and black ball. 



23. Strips of leather on forward end of dory ribband streaks. 

 39371. Dory. Fifteen feet long. 



Length, 15 feet on bottom, 19 feet on top. 



Width, 35 inches on bottom, 5 feet 3 inches on top. 



Depth, 21 inches amidships, 30 inches forward and aft. 



Pine wood for planking and bottom. 



Oak timbers for gunwales, stem, and stern. 



Three thwarts, three parting or kid boards. 



The Bank dory, so called, is used to a greater extent than any other by 

 Bank fishermen and fresh halibiit catchers, and is not as wide or deep as 

 the fourteen and one-half foot haddock dory, is built more for rowing than 

 the fourteen and one-half foot dory, for in this fishing the vessels anchor 

 and the dories have to be rowed with a load in, oftentimes for miles. 



Rigged for fi-esh halibut fishing, the equipment is as follows : 



1. Painter, 5 fathoms, of 2-inch nianila rope, leathered in stem, 



thimble seized in 15 inches from stem. 



2. Stern becket, 3 feet of 2-inch rope, knotted on ends, leathered in 



holes, served for 2 feet in middle with white manila spun-yam. 



3. Two j)airs woolen nippers with lines. 



4. Patent "hurdy-gurdy" or trawl windlass. 



5. Patent tra.Avl-roller, large size, single score, line attached. 



6. Leather on forward end of dory, ribband streaks, to prevent 



trawl from catching. 



7. Mast-hole in forward thwart and step in bottom of dory for mast. 



8. Wooden btitton on starboard side and iron pin on port side of for 



ward thwart to prevent thwart from rising while the dory is 

 under sail. 



9. Mast, 15 feet long. 



10. Sprit, " 



11. Sail. 14 feet on foot, 6 feet on head, 13 feet hoist. 



12. Brass dory comxiass. 



