A dying craft

We're gradually running out of dorymen in Pacific City. A dory is a flat-bottomed, double-ended fishing boat whose pointed bow and stern let is slide over the waves. Traditionally, these have been launched directly into the surfae from the beach of Cape Kiwanda near Haystack Rock. It's such a remarkable feature of Pacific City that they have an annual Dory Festival to celebrate it. However, the life of a genuine doryman pretty demanding and the number of people who know how to build these things is small. Like so many other crafts, it's probably going to become something that only gets done in museums.

But Pacific City is too much fun to be depressed about something like this. There's a fun pub (Pelican Pub) down on the beach and it's not far to Tillamook, where you can enjoy the Tillamook Cheese Factory and the Tillamook Air Museum.