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.Mendez ...

, a group of

estuarine An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environment ...

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

clinker-built Clinker built (also known as lapstrake) is a method of boat building where the edges of hull (watercraft), hull planks overlap each other. Where necessary in larger craft, shorter planks can be joined end to end, creating a longer strake or hull ...

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 or stock to provide leverage in the form of torque for the helmsman to turn the rudder. ...

(which extends forward from the stern under the hull), and a seaman who manages the

headsail A sail plan is a description of the specific ways that a sailing craft is rigged. Also, the term "sail plan" is a graphic depiction of the arrangement of the sails for a given sailing craft.> In the English language, ships were usually describe ...

. 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 ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to 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 se ...

' 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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