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Is it a rowboat, a skiff, a dinghy, a dory?  There are a number of different names for small rowing boats, so I had to check to find out what this was rightly called.  It appears to be a dory. 

Strictly speaking, the only true defining characteristic of the dory is that it is planked up with wide boards, “It should be well understood, that it is the dory’s special mode of construction, not its hull shape, that sets it, and its related sub-types apart from other boats”.

More generally speaking, the dory can be defined as a small boat which has:

• a flat bottom, with the bottom planks fastened lengthwise (bow to stern).
• a hull shape defined by the natural curve of a sawn plank (never steam bent).
• planks overlapping the stem at the front of the boat and an outer ‘false’ stem covering the hood ends of the planks.
• (with some exceptions) a fairly narrow transom often referred to as the ‘tombstone’ due to its unique shape.

Despite their simplicity of design, dories are well known for their seaworthiness and rowing ease. Because of their narrow bottoms, they do not exhibit much initial stability and have often been called ‘tippy’. They exhibit high ultimate stability, however, tipping to a point and then stiffening up significantly and resisting further rolling tendencies. Dories by design are quite voluminous and can carry a heavy load for their size and will continue to retain their great ultimate stability even when heavily loaded.

In 1876, Danish immigrant and fisherman Alfred Johnson sailed a custom twenty foot Cape Ann Dory from Gloucester, Massachusetts to Liverpool in 66 days, proving the design built for fishing the rough Atlantic Ocean could handle nearly any weather.

E.J. Lefavour

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Please join Pathways for Children for our "Curious Creatures" event at the Cape Ann Families space at 28 Emerson Ave. (across the street from Pathways) on Wednesday, February 23rd from 1:00 – 2:00PM. This is a FREE event and all community members are encouraged to attend. To register or for more information, please contact Amy Larsen at 978-281-2400 x 120. Drop-ins welcome!

Please join us at Pathways for Children, 29 Emerson Avenue, for a FREE Family Fun event, on Thursday, February 24th, from 5:30 – 7:00PM featuring free pizza, face-painting and the Parents’ Choice Award Winner Leeny & The Eeny Meenys! To register or for more information, please contact Amy Larsen at 978-281-2400 x 120. Drop-ins welcome!

Spring really is right around the corner.  You can see the snow and ice are just about gone from the shoreline, rocks and rooftops, and some ground is even exposed in places.  The Vernal Equinox will occur on March 20^th at 23:21 (11:21 pm), 28 days from now.  An equinox occurs twice a year (spring and fall), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the center of the Sun being in the same plane as the Earth’s equator.   On a day of the equinox, the center of the Sun spends a roughly equal amount of time above and below the horizon at every location on the Earth, night and day being of roughly the same length.  This photo really has nothing to do with spring, but was a new vantage point I discovered to view the lighthouse from, and thought it would be new to others too. 

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

I’m sure other people observed the exceptionally low and high tides we had this week around the full moon.  On Friday, when the weather was so balmy and the tide so low, the sandbar was exposed from Wingaersheek Beach out into the bay and many people and homies enjoyed it.   The last one almost looks like he’s walking on the water.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

#goodharborbeach

Spring is in the air.  If you’re tired of the drab winter colors and want to switch to something bright, colorful and springy without having to unpack your warm weather things, stop in to Bananas at 78 Main Street, Gloucester.  I love thrift shops, and Bananas is really eclectic and fun, with great prices and a huge selection of clothing, funky jewelry, shoes, feather boas (a must have), hats and more.  Even if you’re not in the market to buy, or don’t wear second hand (heaven forbid), stop in just for the experience; it will make you smile.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

That no one associated with Annisquam died recently?  I learned an interesting bit of Annisquam tradition.  When someone who has ever lived in Annisquam dies, even if they had moved away, the flag at the Village Hall is flown at half-mast and a note is left giving the details of the decedent.  I thought that was a pretty special tradition, and unique way to let people to know that a fellow “Squammer” had passed.  (Information courtesy of Jill Carter).

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com