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  • Also check out Jeff Spira's web site, great and easy plans for drift boats, skiffs and dory's.

    Want a Boat? Build Your Own 2010

  • Also check out Jeff Spira's web site, great and easy plans for drift boats, skiffs and dory's.

    Want a Boat? Build Your Own 2010

  • Kharl listened, using his senses to discern the dory's progress.

    Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • As the small dory's prow reached the end of the pier, Kharl raised the sight shield, extending it a good five cubits behind the stern.

    Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • Her stories were feisty and laced with humour, irony, and dory's uncompromising brand of wit.

    Dory Jones 1996

  • The dory's drift, if unchanged, would take her several yards west of the steel can crowned with its red whistle-cage.

    Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

  • This is a good halibut ground although it is almost impossible to haul the gear by hand and the use of the "gurdy" (a roller turned by a crank and fastened to the dory's bow for winding up the trawl) becomes necessary.

    Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich

  • Following Jim's directions, Percy fastened a bight of the warp securely round the tail of his prize, triced it up over the dory's stem, and made the line fast round a thwart.

    Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

  • It was but the work of a moment for Gregory to overpower the thief of the small boat and bind him with the dory's painter.

    El Diablo Brayton Norton 1914

  • So I dropped the coiling lines and, with the oar already to the becket in the stern, whirled the dory's bow head on.

    The Trawler 1912

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