Editing Dory (boat) (section)

===Other dories, and related types===
Other, less but traditional types were the double ended surf and gunning dories. The pointed bow and sterns made these boats excel at launching through the surf. Gunning dories were built quite light in comparison to the more traditionally constructed beach dories.

The "dory skiff" is another variation of the dory type. For inshore work the transom was widened, and freeboard was lowered making an exceptionally easy-to-row boat that was more stable (initial stability not ultimate stability) than their offshore cousins. However, they are not as [[seaworthy]] as the Swampscott or Banks dories.<ref name="Gardner257">Gardner, page 257</ref>

The [[Gandelow]], much like a dory design from midships forward, is native to the [[River Shannon|Shannon]] estuary in [[Ireland]]. The main difference is that, at the stern, the gandelow has upper 'butterfly planks' which are twisted to make the stern wider and more buoyant, while the lower planks, twisted opposite, form a hollow boxed skeg, much like a [[Sea Bright Skiff]]. The space created, when covered, provides a netlocker and a platform.

The cot, a protean Irish traditional boat, has variants quite similar to dories, although some have a transom bow as well as stern, resembling a [[jonboat]]. (The boat name originated as a word for an open dugout canoe, ''coit'', but became used for many types of small open boats.)

The dory type spread by contact among fishing fleets, and was naturalized in many countries.

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File:Snurper og doryer.jpg|Norwegian fishing vessel with dories alongside, 1938
File:Doris-DSC 6257-1.jpg|Museum dory equipped for fishing
File:Fishing 4666.JPG|Fishing from a dory
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