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Whether you navigate it in a rubber raft or a dory, the 225 miles of river can be alternately easy and terrifying.
First, it tells me that the outboard on the dory used by the Scottish divers kept stopping and the dory drifted away from the wreck.
Speaking of three people aboard, the dory rowed and handled surprisingly well with two at the oars and one on the sternsheets steering.
All that day and all the day following, Port Haven was scoured from top to bottom, from the smallest closet to the tiniest dockside dory.
The baitfish tightened into a ball as the kingfish attacked, while several snapper and dory moved in hoping to share the spoils.
This is a wildly successful business where the staff dispense dory and deep and meaningful advice in equal quantities.
For mains, I had chosen the pan-fried stuffed chicken breast, while Madame went for the poached dory fillet on ratatouille Nicoise.
They'll kayak the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and, as a tribute to the host province, paddle a traditional wooden dory row boat.
Why, you'd have an easier time piloting your dory around the reflecting pool at the Legislature.
This is the idea that we have to get back on track, that doing so will be painful, but that when we do all will be hunky dory.
Suddenly, after weeks of worry and heartache it is all hunky dory on the Kevin front again.
We do not believe by any stretch of the imagination that everything is hunky dory.
The price for top grade fish like monk and dory is down considerably.
There is no evidence that the crew succeeded in abandoning the vessel or that the vessel's liferaft or dory had been occupied.
On witnessing the capsizing he quickly launched his dory and brought the survivors ashore.
He told me he used to row around in a dory to go fishing for the big companies.
It could not be determined from the pieces of wreckage if the dory had been used by the crew.
As a dory, represented as a boat, it probably doesn't mean very much, but what it means to the people who built it is a story in and of itself.
It is a picture of a guy sitting up in a dory with a make and break engine.
A 4.5 m wooden dory, reportedly built in 1985, was also carried on board.
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He climbed into the dory, pulled up the anchor, and seated himself at the oars.
The dory slackened speed, turned in obedience to the steering oar, and slid under the forequarter of the anchored vessel.
For a boat to take along, I made shift to cut a castaway dory in two athwartships, boarding up the end where it was cut.
But she rowed back with the old brown dory almost as empty as when she had rowed it toilsomely out to her traps.
Not fifty feet away lay a blue dory, heavy and loggy with water, and in the bottom the unconscious figure of a man.
From the wing-struts we transferred to a Navy dory, manned by enlisted men commanded by a blank-faced ensign in dungarees.
Pant had been down the river in a dory for bananas, cocoanuts and casabas.
They had a spyglass, and a good-sized dory was ready for launching.
I suppose if we put three big games together for the play-offs, everything might seem hunky dory.
Then he climbed over the coaming and joined the men in the dory.
I've rowed a dory a good many times when 'twas as bad as this.
The moment that he was inside Captain Eri leaped into the dory.
About eleven o'clock, Mr. Thaxter took me over to smutty Nose in his dory.
Dan threw him a swab, and he leaned over the dory, mopping up the slime clumsily, but with great good-will.
Not knowing what else to do, Harvey swabbed each dory as it came down, pulled out the foot-boards, and laid them in the bottom of the boat.
Harvey looked up from his swabbing at the bottom of another dory just above his head.
A smart rap on the head with the maul and he came into the dory quietly.
You'll find your dory in the rockweed about fifty feet east of the cove.
I heard the thump of the anchor as he dragged it into the dory.
In the dory the skipper, bending at his oars, was not two yards astern.
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