Western boat

Nfld, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a schooner-rigged vessel having a 40-50 foot keel and a 14-15 foot beam, used on the fishing banks.

Quotations

1951

Western boats . . . Bateaux de la cote Ouest.

1958

George Harvey owned a fishing vessel of a fair size-one of the so-called "Western boats" of the period.

1966

[Old folk song] Take me back to my western boat, / Let me fish off Cape St. Mary's, / Where the hag-downs sail and fog-horns wail. . . .