garboard-strake

Updated: June 7, 2025

Then one joking wave caught her up at the bow, and another at the stern, while the rest of the water slunk away from under her just to see how she would like it; so she was held up at her two ends only, and the weight of the cargo and the machinery fell on the groaning iron keels and bilge-stringers. "Ease off! Ease off; there!" roared the garboard-strake. "I want one-eighth of an inch fair play.

Rudyard Kipling - The Day's Work - Volume 1