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The boats were generally short, wide-beamed and small, and were used for trawling or line fishing on the Dogger Bank. The name "dogger" was effectively synonymous with ketch from the early seventeenth century, until the ketch began to increase in size during the period, eventually rising above 50 tons in the middle of the century.
Bolger was a prolific writer and wrote many books, the last being Boats with an Open Mind, as well as hundreds of magazine articles on small craft designs, chiefly in Woodenboat, Small Boat Journal and Messing About in Boats. Bolger died on May 24, 2009, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His wife explained that "[h]is mind had slipped in the ...
A modern folding board made mostly of polypropylene. A folding boat is usually a smaller boat, typically ranging from about 2 to nearly 6 metres (20 ft). [1] Folding boats can be carried by one or two persons, and comfortably fit into a car trunk when packed. They come in several varieties. There are folding kayaks and folding canoes.
Types of boat shown in an 1808 engraving, including top left, 'a Jolly boat for oars or sail' The jolly boat was a type of ship's boat in use during the 18th and 19th centuries. Used mainly to ferry personnel to and from the ship, or for other small-scale activities, it was, by the 18th century, one of several types of ship's boat.
A portaboat (also foldaboat, foldboat, folding boat, Porta-Boot, or porta-bote) is a type of small recreational boat that folds to flat for storage and transport.. The Portaboat was originally invented in 1969.
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The Banks dory, or Grand Banks dory, is a type of dory.They were used as traditional fishing boats from the 1850s on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. [1] The Banks dory is a small, open, narrow, flat-bottomed and slab-sided boat with a particularly narrow transom.