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‘A subcultural group of a time gone by’
Dorymen from Page 1A
Lindsey presented his work Jan. 27 at the
Cannon Beach Arts Association gallery. The
reading was part of a grant the association gave
Lindsey for the project.
“I’ve always been interested in oral stories,”
said Lindsey, who is also known for his book
“Comin’ in Over the Rock,” an oral history of
Cannon Beach.
“When I began fishing with my brother in
the 70s, I noticed a lot of it relied on tradi-
tion,” he said. “If you wanted to learn how to
fish from a dory, you watched and learned. It’s
not dissimilar to logging. It was a subcultural
group of a time gone by.”
Clayton from Page 1A
A way of life
Dory boats are 20- to 25-foot fishing ves-
sels, designed to be launched from the sand
and into the surf rather than from a dock.
While Lindsey has accounts dating back to the
1940s, the commercial dorymen of Cannon
Beach reached their peak in the 1970s.
Back when driving on the beach was per-
mitted, Lindsey recalls dories launching
around Haystack Rock in search of salmon and
rock fish.
Like many others, Lindsey, a school teach-
er, would spend his summers off out fishing
with other commercial dorymen, who would
sell their catches of the day to local fish mar-
kets in town.
“It was a different Cannon Beach. Cannon
Beach wasn’t fancy,” he said. “There weren’t
as many tourists on the beaches.”
In general, Lindsey said being a doryman
was a solitary activity. But with that indepen-
dence came risk. When fishermen sail rough
seas and surf in small boats, they run the risk of
being overtaken with water, Lindsey said.
Some of his favorite memories are of fish-
ing with others out by the lighthouse off Tilla-
mook Head. He recalled one time a doryman
shot a shark that was gaining on his fish, as a
charter boat filled with tourists went by.
“That probably wouldn’t pass today. The
best part about it all was the characters you
would encounter, the good stories, the adven-
turous stories you would hear,” Lindsey said.
“They were flamboyant. I think they were al-
lowed to be (flamboyant) out there.”
But by the early 1980s, the dories started
to vanish.
In 1974, Federal Judge George Boldt had
issued a historic ruling that reaffirmed the
rights of Indian tribes to fish in accustomed
places and allocated 50 percent of the annual
catch to treaty tribes. The decision was upheld
by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1979, severely
impacting the livelihood of local dorymen.
Local fishermen were outraged, Lindsey
said. Some protested by cooking fish in the
COURTESY CLEVE ROOPER
Above: Dory fishermen Scott
Rekate, left, and Rick Krahn ply
their trade in the presence of
the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse.
Right: Rick Krahn and his dory
named “Frog Bandit.”
‘It was a different
Cannon Beach.
Cannon Beach wasn’t
fancy. There weren’t
as many tourists on
the beaches.’
Peter Lindsey
With this being his first venture into
the gallery world, Clayton doesn’t plan to
change much.
“Part of what made this gallery so at-
tractive was how not much needs to be
changed. Kim has done a fantastic job,” he
said. “We have great clientele, great artists
and a wonderful set of employees. So if
we’re not broken, then it doesn’t need to be
fixed. But it would be naive to say we can’t
do better.” Clayton hopes to maintain the
gallery’s relationships with the current art-
ists, as well as expand and diversify pieces
with new artists, Clayton said. The biggest
change customers will see in the near future
is an updated website, he said.
“I’m still new to this. I want to learn,” he
said. “To change for the sake of change is
not something I believe in.”
His tenure in Cannon Beach has been
short; he still is looking for a place in town.
But so far, he said he enjoys the area and
the people who comprise it. While he loves
the beauty of the Oregon Coast, he said
he plans to split his time between Cannon
Beach and Phoenix, Arizona, where his
wife still lives.
“Sometimes I need a week of sun,” he
laughed.
COURTESY SCOTT REKATE
parking lot of Short Sands Beach, he recalled,
attempting to bring attention to what Lindsey
and his compatriots saw as a cultural corner-
stone slipping away from them.
“It wasn’t simply work,” he said, “it was a
way of life.”
A shared history
Jon Broderick, a fisherman himself and the
organizer of the FisherPoet’s Gathering, has
spent years encouraging commercial fishermen
to share their stories. He said the importance
of documenting this aspect of Cannon Beach’s
history is invaluable.
“It has to do with the collective memory.
You hardly have a community without it,”
Broderick said. “And fishing has that commu-
nity.”
Broderick, who has lived in Cannon Beach
for more than 30 years, was never a doryman
himself, but remembers the dories on the beach
near the peak of their popularity. Somebody
has to write down their stories, he said, “or all
those stories are gone,” he said.
“Not every place is fortunate enough to
have a Peter Lindsey writing it down,” he said.
“Because of work like this, people 100 years
from now who stumble across a wrecked ship
maybe will be able to say, ‘Hey, that’s a dory,
and those were significant.’”
The publishing date for his book has yet to
be determined. Lindsey said that he hopes to
accumulate “even more juicy stories” to in-
clude.
“To do this, you had to know and under-
stand the ocean, be attuned and attentive to the
natural world. These guys had to have tough
individual qualities,” Lindsey said. “Some of
the jokes and stories and the characters are
gone. Cannon Beach is just different now.”
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