Talk:Gloucester dory

No. The dory in the picture was designed 20 years ago by Phillip Bolger and has no connection with Bank dories other than superficial visual comparisons. No pictures or drawings exist for the Gloucester Dory and only anecdotal references even acknowledge the existence of the Gloucester Dory. Most likely (according to Chappelle), the Gloucester Dory was a version of a Banks dory with a sail rig for local day fishing. This whole article is pure fabrication of an imaginative mind. --Bcooke99 (talk) 13:18, 15 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Do you think you could have a go at fixing it? There are references to the Gloucester dory in Google scholar and in Google books. --Geronimo20 (talk) 03:22, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

This is discussion so it belongs here.

The description here for the Gloucester Dory is incorrect the gloucester dory is actually a banks dory measured on the bottom, sizes are 14' 15' 16' the were mostly built by a company named Higgins & Gifford of Gloucester late 1800's thru early 1900's signed Gloucester's Dory Maker. Many other boatbuilders also built Banks dories. Hiram Lowell of Lowell's Boat Shop on the Merrimack River in Amesbury, MA, comes to mind. The photograph here is incorrectly placed on this page as it is not a type Banks Dory. The Gloucester Light Dory is a design by the late Phil Bolger of Gloucester, MA. It was created to be a tender for his sailboat. It is far too light to be rowed on the Grand Banks.