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Replacing a strake in a lapstrake boat is a little more difficult than it is with a carvel-built boat.
The lapstrake planking method appears to have reached its final form in northern Europe, where iron fastenings were used.
This small wooden rowboat with a lapstrake hull had a snug seat in the stern, one in the middle where my father sat to row, and another near the bow where I loved to sit.
Scotland produced many fine skiffs, the class name for a number of open or partly decked, lapstrake, one-masted, lug-rigged boats.
The predominance of the double-ended, lapstrake hull in Scandinavia is very marked, and some modern boats strongly resemble those of the Vikings.
The Small Boats Course focuses on traditional boatbuilding, both lapstrake and carvel plank-on-frame construction, using modern materials and techniques.
Originally of wooden lapstrake construction, these boats now are almost universally made of steel, and some are equipped with diesel or gasoline engines.
The lapstrake type of planking, in which each plank or strake overlaps slightly the one below it, can be seen in an elementary form in some dugouts with plank sides.
Sailors have choices ranging from an 8-foot lapstrake dinghy to a traditional 17-foot dory.
Some of the more notable of these are the Hampton boat of New England, first a lapstrake sail and rowing boat like the Labrador whaler but later a square-sterned, two-masted, half-decked boat equipped with a centreboard.
Captain Myers moved his lapstrake Hewes to a more forgiving set of docks.
The hotel nightlights shine behind the drawn venetian blinds and the slatted patterns on the curbside cars give them the look of anchored smallcraft with lapstrake hulls.
A week later I was at a boatshow admiring a pretty little fibreglass dinghy, complete with faux lapstrake 'planks' and a wineglass transom, but without fittings for oars.
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