Many Nova Scotia fishermen made their own dories and re-caulked and re-painted them each spring to make them sea-worthy for another season. But wooden dories don't last forever. The salt water has a way of getting to the wood and the dory eventually weakens as the wood begins to rot. The fishermen would then sell one for $100.00 in order to unload it and make room for a new one. I owned two of them at the same time and used them on the fresh water lake at our summer cottage. They looked great floating off shore, tied to a real wooden hand made fisherman's buoy at a mooring. My real purpose in owning them was to include them in my paintings. They were always available when I wanted to use them, either for rowing or for a painting. Beached on the shore, tied to the wharf or pulled up into a nearby field like this one, they made for a good centre of interest in my marine compositions. Mix in a stand of spruce and hardwood trees with a lone white pine towering over all and 'Voila' you're ready to paint!
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