The dorna is a design of fishing boat specific to the

Rías Baixas The Rías Baixas ( Galician for "Lower Rias") are a series of four estuarine inlets located on the southwestern coast of Galicia, Spain. They are the Ría de Muros e Noia, the Ría de Arousa, the Ría de Pontevedra, and the Ría de Vigo.Me ...

, a group of

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inlets in Galicia, a province on the Atlantic coast of northwestern Spain. It is a

clinker-built Clinker-built, also known as lapstrake-built, is a method of boat building in which the edges of longitudinal (lengthwise-running) hull (watercraft), hull planks overlap each other. The technique originated in Northern Europe, with the first know ...

boat, typically around long and broad. It has at least a two-man crew: a skipper who handles the

tiller A tiller or till is a lever used to steer a vehicle. The mechanism is primarily used in watercraft, where it is attached to an outboard motor, rudder post, rudder post or stock to provide leverage in the form of torque for the helmsman to turn ...

(which extends forward from the stern under the

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), and a seaman who manages the

headsail A sail plan is a drawing of a sailing craft, viewed from the side, depicting its sails, the spars that carry them and some of the rigging that supports the rig. By extension, "sail plan" describes the arrangement of sails on a craft. A sailing c ...

. It may, however, have a crew of three or four. It has oars for propulsion for when there is no wind. Modern boats may be fitted with an auxiliary

outboard motor An outboard motor is a propulsion system for boats, consisting of a self-contained unit that includes engine, gearbox and propeller or jet drive, designed to be affixed to the outside of the transom. They are the most common motorised method ...

. Swedish scholar Staffan Mörling and Galician scholar Xaquín Lorenzo have suggested that the design may have been inspired by that of

Viking Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9� ...

' dragon ships'.

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* * * {{cite web , url=http://www.modelismonaval.com/magazine/dorna/ , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308112801/http://www.modelismonaval.com/magazine/dorna/ , url-status=dead , archive-date=8 March 2008 , title=La Dorna , language=es , website=modelismonaval.com , access-date=26 August 2018 Fishing vessels of Spain Galicia (Spain)

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