July 1st they were among the rocking doriesof the Newfoundland fishermen, and then on the 15th the little sailboat washed and rolled to anchor inshore among the fur traders under the heights of Tadoussac.
Somewhere north of Gaspé the smoke of the French fishing fleet was seen ascending from the sea, as the fishermen rocked in their dories cooking the midday meal.
I also looked out upon the cove, where a few men in dories were engaged in jigging for squid, pulling in the wriggling things which had been attracted by a piece of red rag, their tentacles caught upon the upturned needles of the jig.
And when they reach the fleet of dories just hauled ashore after the day's fishing, how do I laugh in my sleeve, and sometimes roar outright, at the simplicity of these young folks and the sly humor of the fishermen!
Dories are broken from their nests and skim lightly across the harbor, now alive with a fleet in miniature.
When the schools of camplin come to the surface and begin to jump, the dories all close in on them, for the fishermen know that the cod are after them.
Next evening, just after nightfall, three strange dories might have been seen stealing from the mouth of the creek.
Many of these fishing vessels now supply each of the attending dories with a submarine bell which weighs about forty pounds and is run by clockwork.
So I had all the dories got aboard and stowed amidships.
The wreckage from aloft had fallen so that something--the foretopmast, I suppose--had smashed our dories into kindling wood.
The fishing is mostly done from power dories or sail boats with basket rakes.
Chatham go in dories and use "pushers," as the Common Flats afford excellent opportunity for this sort of fishing; the remaining 40 per cent.
Dories and skiffs are the principal boats, costing from $10 to $25.
Of all the men lost on the Banks during the last twenty years more than two-thirds have been out in dories attending trawls.
However, the captain suddenly recalled that a fisherman's village was only a few miles distant, and that there he could obtain a couple of dories admirably adapted to the task in hand.
No parent was ever visited because prankish youths "borrowed" dories and returned them with am oar missing.
It's a trap door to steps so the boatman can get down to the dories he keeps tied under the place," Chick decided.
Around it, thickly clustered, were the dozendories owned by Toby Tew.
There, he knew, was a small dock, on the widened end of which stood a small, two-room shack used by a boatman who rented his small dories for crabbing excursions into the channels of the swamp.
I saw a light when I started down channel to see to my dories after the blow.
No party of boys lacking funds had to forego crabbing expeditions as long as Toby had spare dories not in demand for pay.
Frequently it is necessary to transfer passengers from the ships to dories, from the dories to tugs, from the tugs to flat barges.
Landings have always been made by passengers in dories or in tiny launches which come out from the settlement, and which bob up and down like corks.
There were two small cottages, set above high-water mark, three dories drawn up on the shore, and a heap of lobster-pots and nets.
Transferred some men from the whaleboat into these dories and proceeded to pick up other men from wreckage.
I then proceeded with the whaleboat and two dories searching through the wreckage to make sure that no survivors were left in the water.
I directed the after dories and life rafts to be cut away and thrown overboard and ordered the men in the immediate vicinity to jump over the side, intending to follow them.
About this time, which was probably an hour after the ship sank, a German submarine approached the scene of torpedoing and lay to near some of the dories and life rafts.
Upon arrival at Brest I was informed that two other dories containing Lieutenant H.
We then picked up two overturned dories which were nested together, separated them and righted them, only to find that their sterns had been broken.
As soon as the dories were available we proceeded to where they were last seen, but could find no trace of them.
I then directed him and accompanied him to the main deck and told him to take charge of cutting away forward dories and life rafts.
The dories coming loose gave a few of us a chance to climb up on the bottom of them, and when the seine-boat came bobbing up most of the others climbed up on the bottom of that.
After a hard grapple we got the dories and a little later the seine-boat, and after a lot more work we got them right side up.
The dories we pulled the plugs out of to let them drain and then took them on deck, but the seine-boat we had to pump out.
Haul thedories into the hatch, Tommie, and make 'em fast.
The beauty of double-lashing thedories began to appear, and all hands might have been towing astern all night by the look of them.
There must have been a thousand barrels of them, and dories and seine-boat began to go under.
Freshly painted dories were slipped into the water; newly rigged yawls and knockabouts were anchored in the bay; the float was equipped with renovated bumpers, and a general air of anticipation pervaded the community.
The dories have no wireless aboard them," observed Mrs. King grimly.
After breakfast we'll break out her anchor, and out dories and get that gear aboard afore it's too late.
He lost a lot of time at the Madaleens and he struck a bad breeze on the Banks and lost an anchor and hawser, some of hisdories and a pile o' gear.
When the men are out in the dories fishing, or when they are dressing fish, he must assist the skipper in sailing the schooner, in getting dories hoisted in or out, and wherever he can be of use.
We'll catch up on sleep when the boys are out in the dories to-morrow.
I--I thought you were all picked up in your dories a few minutes after the collision.
They started picking up the dories shortly afterwards, and as they came alongside, Donald and Joak caught their painters and allowed them to drift abreast the quarters.
In the pens were a number of fine cod-fish awaiting the splitter's knife, and on the cabin roof was a pillow where he and Judson had been dozing in the sunshine after the doriesleft the vessel.
Donald could see a number of fish being hauled up, and the skipper was scanning the other dories through his glasses.
You know, Tom, dories up north are rough fishing boats.
She was about twenty-five feet long, very wide amidships—as dories always are—and capable of carrying a heavy load without much increase in her draught of water.
Not if she’s like all the other dories I’ve had anything to do with,” answered Dick.
As soon as the dories were available, we proceeded to where they were last seen but could find no trace of them.
Transferred some men from the whale boat into these dories and proceeded to pick up other men from wreckage.
I then proceeded with the whale boat and two dories searching through the wreckage to make sure that no survivors were left in the water.
Upon arrival at Brest I was informed that two other dories containing Lieut.
About this time, which was probably an hour after the ship sank, a German submarine approached the scene of torpedoing and lay to, near some of the dories and life rafts.
Not all of the fishing craft's nests of dories had been carried away, but a boat could not live in that turmoil of the sea.
Dories and dingbats, but doesn't it beat anything you ever heard tell of?
Dories and dingbats, but I warrant you there was some excitement to the square inch," Pudge insinuated.
Dories put out from anchored vessels whose prows nodded in the inner harbor, and their crews swarmed to the beach in schools, like fish to a net.
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