The usual Columbia River bowpicker is about twenty feet long, very high in the bow and stern to weather the waves of the Columbia Bar, and practically unsinkable.
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Bowpicker
//ˈbaʊˌpɪkə(ɹ)//
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It was a thirty-two foot bowpicker with a bare, stainless-stell reel in the bow and a square, squatty cabin that filled up the stern.
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The experience with bowpickers in Cordova demonstrated that without additional innovation, towing a buoy over the gear aft of the entry point of the groundline to the water was impractical and potentially unsafe.
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