Talk:Clinker (boat building)

message: #Some said clench and others said clinch. In my experience, clench is the more usual.
#Cotter bolts have nothing to do with a shipwright or boatbuilder's work. The cotter would work its way out and the whole lot would fall to bits. They were of use where everything stayed still and the same way up: not a description of a boat.  There was one instance of cotter bolts being used on shipboard.  I cannot remember where I have seen the reference but I recall that the chain plates of the wooden walls were fastened with bolts secured by having a cotter driven through a slot in the inboard end, the cotter was then bent to prevent it working loose.--Boatbuff (talk) 16:33, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Am pasting the following deleted from article page:My Random House dictionary explains that "clinker," which has several unrelated meanings, came into use in Britain in the 1700s as a variant of "clincher." This referred to the method already mentioned in the article, of holding the strakes together one way or another, such as a nail, partly driven in, then bent over. Although the article states that clinker was primarily British, with lapstrake as the preferred term in this country (USA), the term clinker-built was the preferred term for the rowboats used by life guards along the beaches of the New Jersey shore.
 Maybe someone can incorporate it into the article. --Technopat (talk) 21:44, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cotter bolts etc

message: Interestingly, it is the only book in the entire US LOC cat that is catalogued with subject=Fasteners--History.
I haven't read it, but decided to point it out here.
— ¾-10 19:55, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: This looks interesting: McCarthy 2005

message: Here I have a illustration on commons who describe a Midship section, parts with numbers . Its can help to explane how a wooden boat or ship are build-up from structure. Boatbuilder.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.230.211.136 (talk) 21:54, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Illustration

message: As someone completely ignorant of boat-building, I came to this article to find out what keeps the water out.  Everyone knows that water under pressure will stream through the tiniest crack.  So what stops a clinker-built boat from sinking within minutes?  I presume the answer is mainly 'caulking', so why is there only one passing mention of caulking in the article?86.181.84.206 (talk) 14:07, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Waterproofing 

message: The article says "Clinker is the British term, which is also used in Canada and most other countries of the world except the USA, where the method is known as lapstrake."  Having grown up around boat builders in the USA and learning about Viking ships in school, I've only ever heard it called clinker-built, never lapstrake.  Both Webster's and American Heritage define the term primarily under clinker-built; lapstrake in both cases says something along the lines of "see clinker-built".  I'm inclined to believe that the article's assertion that it's known as lapstrake rather than clinker-built in the US isn't just uncited but is (at least most commonly) wrong.  SumnerH (talk) 07:42, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect or uncited allegation 

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