The Yacht Sailor Author:William Cooper Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 12 CARVEL AND CLINCHER BUILD. CHAPTER II. " Now, hoist the anchor, mates—and let the sails Give their broad bosom to the buxom wind, Like a lass that woos ... more »a lover."—Anon. I Must now warn you against having anything to do with a Clineher-built vessel. Remember, Mr. Tyro, there are two distinct methods of building vessels, viz., Carvel and Clincher. The Carvel build is that in which the edges of the outside planks are brought together flush with each other, and present a perfectly smooth surface; whereas, in the Clincher build, the upper plank in each strake overlaps the lower one, and presents a serrated surface. The reasons I hold for preferring the Carvel to Clincher build are these, viz., Carvel presents a surface favourable to high speed, can be more readily coppered, is more easily repaired by removing injured planking, and creates no disagreeable noise in its passage through the water. Clincher presents a surface of much greater proportional resistance, consequently adverse to high speed; is possessed, however, of greater proportional buoyancy in a seaway; can be coppered, but is very troublesome; is very difficult to repair, as two or three planks may have to be removed to repair one. When the " lands " or overlaps of the Yachts are never built Clincher now, and one is very seldom ever seen, except in the small classes. But even in the small open boat classes Clincher- built boats are going out of favour, and probably in a few years none but rowing boats will be so built. In addition to the above-mentioned objections may be added the greater difficulty incurred in cleaning a Clincher boat when she becomes foul. The greatest advantage possessed by this style of build over a boat Carvel-built, is decrease of weight, as her planks do not require to be so thick for...« less