Jan30
More excellent video of Grand Banks schooners dory boats and fishermen
The Lonely Men of the Dories
Jay Cresswell has been in touch to tell us about some more video of the Grand Bankers of Portugal – see Comments in the left-hand column above left.
He’s also been in touch to say that within a few years, there will be as many as three restored four-masted schooners built in the 1930s for use in the Grand Banks fishing grounds.
But to return to the video, the material he has found is marvellous footage of the schooners, their wooden boats and the fishermen themselves – six sections of film titled The Lonely Men of the Dories – the link above goes to section 1, but the rest are linked below. By the way, don’t let the title you see in the Youtube pages worry you – the voiceovers are in English.
The Lonely Men of the Dories part 1
The Lonely Men of the Dories part 2
The Lonely Men of the Dories part 3
The Lonely Men of the Dories part 4
The Lonely Men of the Dories part 5
The Lonely Men of the Dories part 6
2 Comments »Culture: songs, stories, photography and art, Locations, Rowing boat, Sailing boat, Sailing ships, Small boats, Techniques, Traditional clinker, Uncategorized, Working boats
Nick Gates Feb 1st 2010 at 09:20 pm 1
These are fanatastic! If these shots of a dory don’t make you want to build one then nothing ever will!
Ben Feb 2nd 2010 at 09:07 am 2
You can see why Alfred Johnson and others that crossed the Atlantic towards the end of the 19th century chose dories for the job. Great stuff!