How To Use clinker-built In A Sentence
- It was Albert who made the boat, in 1962, from mahogany, four metres long and clinker-built. Archive 2005-06-19
- The most popular was the clinker-built dinghy.
- The roof here is constructed almost like a clinker-built boat, again reflecting Barry's other great love, sailing.
- They were framed from naturally curved oak and planked with very thin oak strakes, clinker-built above the waterline and carvel-built below to reduce drag and increase speed. Champlain's Dream
- It's a 14 ft, wooden, clinker-built boat, upside down and in need of some varnish.
- He went down to the harbour and hired a boat, twelve feet of clinker-built dinghy with long, heavy paddles. THE MAIN CAGES
- They included keels, floor frames, futtocks and stem posts, representing parts of a clinker-built boat up to 8m long with a beam of some 2.5m, which was possibly used for coastal fishing.
- Ten years ago all the bawleys were clinker-built -- that is, with the streaks overlapping each other, as in boats; but the new bawleys are now all carvel-built, the planks being placed edge to edge, so as to give a smooth surface, as in yachts and large vessels. A Chapter of Adventures
- The felling of strakes used in its clinker-built hull has been dated by dendrochronology to the 880s.
- These were clinker-built - that is, with timbers overlapping and not laid flush - with flat bottom, straight stem and stern posts, a stern rudder and a single sail.
