Replacing a strake in a lapstrake boat is a little more difficult than it is with a carvel-built boat. |
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The lapstrake planking method appears to have reached its final form in northern Europe, where iron fastenings were used. |
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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. |
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Scotland produced many fine skiffs, the class name for a number of open or partly decked, lapstrake, one-masted, lug-rigged boats. |
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The predominance of the double-ended, lapstrake hull in Scandinavia is very marked, and some modern boats strongly resemble those of the Vikings. |
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The Small Boats Course focuses on traditional boatbuilding, both lapstrake and carvel plank-on-frame construction, using modern materials and techniques. |
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Originally of wooden lapstrake construction, these boats now are almost universally made of steel, and some are equipped with diesel or gasoline engines. |
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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. |
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Sailors have choices ranging from an 8-foot lapstrake dinghy to a traditional 17-foot dory. |
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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. |
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Captain Myers moved his lapstrake Hewes to a more forgiving set of docks. |
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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. |
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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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