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Grand Banks Dory
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Comment by Clyde A. Phillips on October 14, 2012 at 10:11pm
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Good shots of the whaler and dory. While many (or even most) boats of those sizes are built up-side-down, these two build best right-side-up. The whaler will be clinker built, which requires one hand on each side of the planks, one with a hammer and one with a bucking iron. The dory is built upright also, but note the differences in the building forms. On the whaler the keel is sitting on the edge of a thick plank, the stems are attached to the keel and propped up; all of this is braced sideways to maintain position. Then the forms are set up plumb and square and the planking begins. The dory’s form is its bottom. The bottom planks are fastened together on the flat then set on horses of different heights to produce the rocker (shape) of the bottom. The bottom is held down with props between the bottom and the rafters above. Frames are then positioned and braced plumb and square. The stem and tombstone transom are held in proper position and the sides attached. New style planking can be one piece of plywood; old style would be two or three strakes of lapped planks. Phil Bolger put out a set of plans for a dory called the Gloucester Gull and others are easily found. There is a lot of information in those two photos!
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