How To Use Clinker-built In A Sentence
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It was Albert who made the boat, in 1962, from mahogany, four metres long and clinker-built.
Archive 2005-06-19
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The most popular was the clinker-built dinghy.
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The roof here is constructed almost like a clinker-built boat, again reflecting Barry's other great love, sailing.
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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
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It's a 14 ft, wooden, clinker-built boat, upside down and in need of some varnish.
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He went down to the harbour and hired a boat, twelve feet of clinker-built dinghy with long, heavy paddles.
THE MAIN CAGES
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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.
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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
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The felling of strakes used in its clinker-built hull has been dated by dendrochronology to the 880s.
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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.
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Workers unearthed part of an old clinker-built vessel but were told by the foreman to cover it over again to keep construction on course.
1000 Year Old Viking Ship Under Parking Lot | Impact Lab
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The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old.
Morgan’s Run
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Well preserved remains of Viking ships show they were clinker-built of overlapping planks and measured between about 17.5m and 36m in length.
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Excavations indicate it is the hull of a 12m single-mast clinker-built boat which was carrying a cargo - possibly salted fish - in wooden barrels when it sank.
Archive 2007-02-01
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The clinker-built construction of overlapping planks secured by clench nails conferred great strength with flexibility.
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The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old.
Morgan’s Run
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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
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The cutter was clinker-built and only cutters meant for foreign service were ever carvel-built.
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Tadeusz told her he'd bought it as a virtual wreck because he'd fallen in love with its sleek clinker-built lines.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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The clinker-built whaler lay trapped between the twin worlds of darkling sea and shadow-limned night.
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He was happiest at home, with his children, and later alone on his little old clinker-built boat, the Curlew, sailing the muddy waters of the Thames estuary.
In the Frame
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The felling of strakes used in its clinker-built hull has been dated by dendrochronology to the 880s.
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Nowadays, these wooden clinker-built dinghies are equipped with reliable outboard motors which means you no longer need forearms like Popeye to go afloat on Leven.
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Perhaps the most interesting of these were the clench-nails, as these were used to fasten the overlapping long planks of a clinker-built vessel together.
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But not everyone who visits this exclusive little port considers it prudent to spend the equivalent of the cost of a clinker-built dinghy on a single night's accommodation.
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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.
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The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old.
Morgan’s Run
