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Foyboat
A Foyboat is a small vessel primarily used to assist the mooring and servicing of a larger vessel. It is not a tug ''per se''. The word has often been associated with the rivers of North East England.
==Origins==
Foyboat's etymology directly ties this dialect word to a workboat of the River Tyne (and also the Wear and Tees) used to assist larger vessels. Foy has been said to equal "fee" and these small boats might go as far south as the Tees seeking work and then returning with the vessel they had contracted to.〔25 things to see and do in the Science Museum, Exhibition Park, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear County Council Museums, Newcastle N/d. c1980.〕 The exact origins of this humble boat type are lost but as the collier trade in sail developed out of the rivers of the North East of England, there would have been a great need for small vessels to tend larger ones.〔''Tyne Foyboats and Foyboatmen'', Newcastle 1979.〕 The work involved would typically be handling lines between shore and vessel (and later to tugs), handling anchor〔''Tyne Foyboats and Foyboatmen'', Newcastle 1979. Also known as kedging〕 and buoy work, acting as informal ferries taking crew and provisions to anchored vessels and to each river bank. The reason a distinct vessel and type of crew evolved was down to an association between families and the job and the need to evolve a design whose first requirement was ruggedness and stability.〔''Pilots:The World of Pilotage Under Sail & Oar Volume 2'', Wooden Boat Publications, 2002, ISBN 0-937822-76-0 pages 273 specific families, Osler names include the Donnellys, Moores, Bays, Fenwicks and more.〕 Before the mechanical tug evolved a rowing boat was the only way to tow sailing vessels in and out of the river estuaries during periods of calm or contrary winds.
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