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boats, the rubbing strake was applied to the outside of the sheer strake. Many current pleasure craft reflect this history in that they have a mechanically attached (and therefore replaceable) rub rail at the location formerly occupied by a rubbing strake, often doubling to cover the joint between a
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steel ship, the strakes were usually lapped and joggled (one strake given projections to match indentions in the one adjoining), but where a smoother finish was sought they might be riveted on a butt strap, though this was weaker. In modern welded construction, the plates are normally butt-welded
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A "stealer" is a short strake employed to reduce the width of plank required where the girth of the hull increases or to accommodate a tuck in the shape. It is commonly employed in carvel and iron/steel shipbuilding, but very few clinker craft use them.
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sheer strake. It was much less broad but thicker than other strakes so that it projected and took any rubbing against piers or other boats when the boat was in use. In
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and reinforced with a butt block. Where the transverse sections of the vessel's shape are fuller, the strakes are wider; they taper toward the ends.
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In small boats strakes may be single continuous pieces of wood. In larger wooden vessels strakes typically comprise several planks which are either
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strake. Working upward come the bottom strakes, lowers, bilge strakes, topside strakes, and uppers also named sequentially as the
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Diagram of typical modern metal-hulled ship’s exterior plating, with a single strake highlighted in red
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strake, etc. The uppermost along the topsides is called the sheer strake. Strakes are joined to the
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with full penetration welds all round to adjoining plates within the strake and to adjoining strakes.
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In boat and ship construction, strakes immediately adjacent to either side of the
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construction. In a metal ship, a strake is a course of plating.
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usually have a rubbing strake (typically a glued-on rubber
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A rubbing strake was traditionally built in just below a
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Strake (disambiguation)

longship


hull
planking
plating
stempost
bows
sternpost
transom
keel
boat building
carvel
clinker
scarfed
butt-jointed
riveted
keel
stem
carvel
clinker
GRP hull
Inflatable
dinghies
RIBs
extrusion
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