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from three-quarters of a mile toa mile and a half apart. As 
soon as the dory has been dropped, the vessel keeps off and runs 
to leeward, and is ready to pick up the first one as soon as her 
trawl has been set, and the others in regular succession. The 
time occupied in setting the trawls under sail varies from half 
an hotr to an hour. 
When the dories are picked up, a part or all of them are taken 
on deck and the vessel immediately begins to work back toward 
the weather buoys; as soon as the weather buoys are reached, 
the boats are usually dropped again in the manner already de- 
scribed, and the men begin hauling. This second evolution 
occupies from one hour to an hour and a half, according to the 
strength of the wind and other circumstances. As the dories are 
dropped a second time they find themselves at the very place 
where they threw overboard the first anchor, and a mile or two 
to the windward of the place where they dropped their last an- 
chor. They are now able to haul to the leeward, which is easier 
than hauling to the windward, and is more advantageous to the 
fishing, since the tender-mouthed haddock are less liable to drop 
from the hooks of a trawl when it is slack than when it is taut. 
For the dories to haul their trawls occupies from one to four 
hours, according to the length of the trawl, the number of fish 
on the hooks, and the state of the weather. While the dories 
are hauling, the vessel is lying-to with the jib to windward and 
drifting back and forth along the line of boats, waiting for the 
men to finish hauling their trawls or signalize, by raising one 
of the oars, that they have a load of fish and wish to be taken 
on board. After the lines have all been hauled the dories are 
again taken on deck, unless another set are to be made on the 
same ground. When the dories set the whole length of lines, it 
is very unusual for a vessel to make more than one set in a day; 
sometimes, however, a smaller number of lines is set, and the 
operation is twice performed. In exceptional instances, after 
the whole string of tubs has been once set, a smaller number, 
perhaps a tub to each man, is set in the latter part of the day. 
The operation of shooting alongside the dories and picking 
them up is one of the most difficult feats of seamanship which 
can be accomplished by a fishing schooner. 
