Gloucester International Dory Racing in Gloucester, Essex County, United States | Racing

Welcome to The Gloucester International Dory Racing, Gloucester, United States. The Gloucester International Dory Racing Committee, Inc. is engaged in the promotion and sponsorship of dory Racing in the United States of America. We are a non-profit organization located in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Our program at Gloucester International Dory Racing is over 50 years old and allows our members beautiful time on our historic waterfront, while promoting maritime heritage and healthy individual and family competition and fun. 

It all started when Tom Frontiero of Gloucester and Lunenberg, Canada's Lloyd Heisler met in a Lunenberg bar in the winter of 1951. They were both fishermen.  During their conversation, the prowess of the dory rowers of their famous fishing cities and who was superior was hotly debated. Finally it was agreed that there was only one way to settle the argument that had gone on for years. A challenge was issued to have a race between the best rowers of the two cities. Tom Frontiero took that challenge back to Gloucester, hence the berth of the International Dory Races. Now, it was time to form a Gloucester crew.

The race has now gone on over 50 years. As the years passed on and as the Gloucester rowers gained the experience and mastered the strategy factor the race has become competitively equal and the Gloucester men and women have won more than their share of races. More importantly, it has created a strong bond of friendship between two famous similar fishing cities of friendly, hardworking and fun-loving people.  Today both our program, and that of our counterparts in Lunenberg, N.S. (hyperlink to their site) are in a rebuilding phase. We have made some changes to our program to better suit the needs of today’s members, families, communities and businesses.