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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.
Now, the boat which I had been fortunate enough to find and which, by the way, seemed to be the only one that had not been carried down with the ship was Number 5, a craft thirty-two feet long by eight feet beam, carvel-built, double-ended, fitted with air-chambers fore and aft and along each side, with a keel six inches deep to enable her to work to windward under sail.
They are carvel-built that is, the planks are placed as in a ship. Boats in general are clinker-built that is, the planks overlap each other; but as they are difficult to repair, the other simpler method is employed. A ship generally carries seven boats two or more large, and the rest small.
Sadi wrapped a greasy note round a pebble, and chucked it to the man's feet, whence it was transferred to the pocket of his ragged red trousers without comment, and then the pair took their way up past the carvel-built fishing-boats into the straggling village street.
Every one knew that he had deliberately sought out boatmen when the whalers came in from the north. Those who had seen the Yankee's crew at work in their snaky carvel-built boat said that no one else was in it. What chance had we boys in our clinker-built against the thews and sinews of trained whalemen? It was no wonder that we slapped our thighs at the prospect of a more open race.
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