236 T U R B O T> Class IV. 



The five-men boat is 40 feet long and 15 broad, 

 and of 25 tons burthen: it is fo called, tho' navi- 

 gated by fix men and a boy, becaufe one of 

 the men is commonly hired to cook, &c. and does 

 not ihare in the profits with the other five. All 

 our able fifhermen go in thefe boats to the herring 

 filhery at Tur mouth the latter end of SepPemher^ and 

 return about the middle of November, The boats 

 are then laid up until the beginning of Lent^ at 

 which time they go ofi^ in them to the edge of the 

 Dogger^ and other places, to fifn for turbot, cod, 

 ling, ikates, &c. Th^y always take two cobles 

 on board, and when they come upon their ground, 

 anchor the boat, throw out the cobles, and fifh in 

 the fame manner as thofe do who go from the fhore 

 in a coble ; with this difference only, that here 

 each man is provided with double the quantity ,of 

 lines, and initead of waiting the return of tide in 

 the coble, return to the boat and bait their other 

 lines ; thus hawling one fer, and fhooting another 

 every turn of tide. They commonly run into har- 

 bour twice a week to deliver their filh. The five- 

 men boat is decked at each end, but open in the 

 middle, and has two large lug-fails. 

 Bait. The bed bait for all kinds of fifli is frelh herring 



cut in pieces of a proper fize , and notwithflanding 

 what has been faid to the contrary, they are taken 

 here at any time in the winter, and all the fpring, 

 whenever the fifhermen put down their nets for 

 that purpofe. The five-men boats always take 



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