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Here's a great boat!

No, not the 50' yacht they're loading the roller boom onto. No even the Herreshoff Rosinante', or the 12 1/2.

The white Dory the boat builder is coasting in. I was so mesmerized by how it was sliding into the docks, I forgot to take a picture. I couldn't see a wake! And his stroke were few and oh so gentle. Like he was coasting on air.

Up close, it's a very simple build(stitch and glue?). One screwed-3 piece- pine frame, transom, bottom, and two planks of plywood(3/8?). Thwarts of raw pine. Online I think it's a Bolger design.

Not a good dinghy, and another person(unless very, very light) would destroy it's performance. But what a lovely, simple to build, delicate rowing boat.