| One of the best wooden boats that can be build by | | | | that have a long fishing history. |
| hand is a dory or drift boat. These craft are built to | | | | These very historically important wooden boats can |
| move easily through rough waters, and have the | | | | be quite expensive to purchase, but there are |
| option of being powered by ores, wind or a small | | | | several different options one has when it comes to |
| outboard engine. A drift boat is a type of dory boat. | | | | obtaining your own dory boat. Some companies offer |
| Dory boats are fairly small wooden craft, generally | | | | boat kits for sale for these models, although these |
| only 16 to 22 feet in length. One of the best | | | | can often costs close to what you would pay for |
| advantages of this boat's design is that they have a | | | | the purchase of a already constructed boat. You can |
| shallow draft section, which allows them to be sailed | | | | also scour the classifieds (both online and print) for |
| into shallow waters such as creeks or along the | | | | dories for sale, but in all honesty they can be hard to |
| beachfront. Fishermen in particular are found of them | | | | find in this manner. Probably the best way to obtain |
| because of their sturdiness and cargo holding capacity | | | | an affordable dory or drift boat is to build your own |
| for fishing gear. The typical dory boat also has | | | | using reliable boat plans. Dories are not necessarily the |
| relatively high sides, and is narrower in the aft portion | | | | easiest wooden boats to build, but with easy to |
| than in the front. These boats have also played an | | | | follow boat plans the project will proceed quite a bit |
| important role in the history of the fishing industry in | | | | more smoothly. |
| Newfoundland and parts of the United States as well | | | | |