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Little Luke
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:28 pm Post subject:

when i posted my last post i hadn't seen this page. sorry. i meant under the side-decks, accessed from in the cockpit

Cap'n Jeremy
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Joined: 16 Apr 2007
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject:

maevans wrote:

OOO is it called the rubbing streak? (where the side decks and topsides meet)

Usually 'Rubbing Strake' - but that is not a location on a boat, but an item attached the the 'gunwale', which IS the location where the sides meet the deck (or the top of the sides, if you have no deck - like a rowing dinghy).

It is NOT spelt 'gunnel' (although is pronounced like that), nor is it anything to do with whales. A 'wale' - as defined by Websters: "any of a number of strakes usually of extra thick and strong planks in the sides of a wooden ship", and the 'gun' bit is because that's the bit you pointed the guns over to fire at other boats (before they cut holes in the sides lower down).
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