bay-built fishing boat

English translation: boat built on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay

17:23 Feb 27, 2009
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English term or phrase: bay-built fishing boat
I am trying to translate the following sentence:

"Toland watched a bay-built fishing boat motoring a few miles away, her captain laying out his crab pots."

From http://www.bayweekly.com/year01/issue9_41/lead9_41.html

Bay-built. She’s a boat as special to Chesapeake Bay as sloop is to sailing. So what is a Bay-built boat, besides a boat that is, well, built on the Bay? Will somebody please define Bay-built?

Defining Bay-Built is “mission impossible,” says Richard Dodds, curator of Calvert Maritime Museum in Solomons.

Bay-built may have “slipped” into the language, replacing another term, “bateau,” Dodds adds. Bateau, of course, is French for boat. Certainly a more elegant word than boat, but a boat is a boat. Or, as the French might say, a bateau is a bateau.

In my sentence, what does "bay-built fishing boat" mean?

Thanks in advance.
Alexandre Reis
Brazil
Local time: 11:32
Selected answer:boat built on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay
Explanation:
is how I see it

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Note added at 10 mins (2009-02-27 17:33:30 GMT)
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the one in this picture looks like your average sport fishing boat, so don't think there's anything special about these boats, other then where they are made - local patriotism as it were...

http://www.bayweekly.com/year05/issuexiii41/leadxiii41_1.htm...
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5a boat built for bay fishing
Gary D
2boat built on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay
Jonathan MacKerron


  

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boat built on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay


Explanation:
is how I see it

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Note added at 10 mins (2009-02-27 17:33:30 GMT)
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the one in this picture looks like your average sport fishing boat, so don't think there's anything special about these boats, other then where they are made - local patriotism as it were...

http://www.bayweekly.com/year05/issuexiii41/leadxiii41_1.htm...

Jonathan MacKerron
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
a boat built for bay fishing


Explanation:
You have deep sea fishing boats and boats for fishing in a bay where the water is not so rough and then you have river and waterways fishing boats.

River boats have a flat bottom, Bay boats have a small V bottom and deep sea have bigger V bottoms for stability

The water and the depth of the water in a Bay is smoother and shallower then the open sea.

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http://fishraider.com.au/Invision/index.php?s=ae17b22317a2ec...

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Note added at 7 hrs (2009-02-28 00:33:26 GMT) Post-grading
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Boat 1 A V-nose punt type boat between 4 and 5 meteres. This would be aimed at shallow water creek work with the ability to scoot out into the bays as well.

Boat 2 A V-Hull boat between 4.5 and 5.5 meteres Boat 2 is aimed at more open bay work, with the occasional sortie beyond the heads.


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