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The doryman who had brought Captain Wass rowed them to the wharf.
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900
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"A lot of times, when it's big, boats will back off and not go," said San Clemente's Mitch Kahn, veteran doryman.
The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Top Stories 2010
chained_bear commented on the word doryman
"To seagoing people of the North Atlantic, the hardships and bravado of dorymen were legendary. In 1876, Alfred Johnson, a Danish-born Gloucester Mass. doryman, responding to a dare, sailed his sixteen-foot boat from Gloucester to Abercastle, Wales, in fifty-eight days, the first one-man North Atlantic crossing ever recorded.... But the most famous Nova Scotian doryman was Howard Blackburn, who immigrated to Gloucester. On January 23, 1883, Blackburn and his dory mate rowed away from their ship to longline halibut and became lost in a snowstorm. His mate froze to death, but Blackburn shaped his fingers around the oars so that he would still be able to row after he lost feeling in his hands. He rowed 100 miles and reached Newfoundland with the frozen corpse of his mate on the stern."
—Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (New York: Penguin, 1997), 115–116
See also dory and dorymen.
July 16, 2009
reesetee commented on the word doryman
Good grief.
July 16, 2009