Published by Marty Luster
I'm Marty Luster, a retired attorney and politician. In 2010 my wife, mother-in-law, dog and I relocated from Central NY to Gloucester. I hope my photographs and poetry(?) reflect my love for this place and her people.
My picture-poem posts can be seen at http://matchedpairs.wordpress.com and selected black and white images can be found at http://slicesoflifeimages.wordpress.com
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Good Morning Gloucester 
A dory in front of the dory shop?
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Skiff dory hybrid?
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A dory. Great looking!
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A dory!? Are you kidding? Howard Blackburn (and a thousand other long-gone Gloucester fishermen, not to mention the men and women that race dories against the Canadians each year) would turn over in their graves to hear anyone calling this (OK, handsome) flat-bottomed skiff a dory. A dory is double-ended, lapstraked (4 or 5 overlapping planks making up the hull), with a narrow “tombstone” for a stern. Schooners would carry up to 14 of them, and once on the fishing grounds would launch them over the side, each with two men aboard to set and overhaul their trawls. You can learn all about them in the dory shop, in the Maritime Gloucester exhibits, and at the Cape Ann Museum. They say “Gloucester” as much as the Man at the Wheel.
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Thanks Tom and Geno for the information. I learned so much and think “What Boat Style is This Beauty” should be a regular series for we landlubbers.
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It is a Babson Island 14 Flat Bottom Rowing Skiff built by Geno Mondello at the Dory Shop.
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Not a dory, and I think not a sailing or serious rowing vessel. Skiff might cover it, but that’s a generalization. Geno?
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Huh? That is a skiff, not a dory.
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Almost looks like Phil Bolger could have had a hand in the design…
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Also known as a “Flatiron Skiff.” Common across the country and a simple form to build out of planking or plywood.
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