Chain Plates to Coaking

Thick iron plates, sometimes used, which are bolted to the ship's sides, instead of chains to the dead-eyes, as above.

Taking off the sharp edge from timber or plank, or cutting the edge or end of anything bevel or aslope.

The broad projection or assemblage of planks fayed and bolted to the ship's sides for the purpose of spreading the shrouds with a greater angle to the dead-eyes. They should therefore be placed either above or below the upper deck ports, as may be most convenient. But it is to be observed that, if placed too high, they strain the sides too much; and if placed too low the shrouds cannot be made to clear the ports without difficulty. Their disposition will therefore depend on that particular which will produce the greatest advantage. They should fay to the sides only where the bolts come through, having an open space of about two inches in the rest of their length to admit a free current of air and a passage for wet and dirt, in order to prevent the sides from rotting.

Three or four thick strakes, worked between the upper and lower deck ports in two-decked ships, and between the upper and middle deck ports in three-decked ships, for the purpose of strengthening the topside. They should be placed in the best manner for receiving the chain and preventer bolts, the fastenings of the deck-knees, etc.

Knees of oak timber which support the knee of the head, and which they also ornament by their shape and mouldings. They form the basis of the head and connect the whole to the bows, through which, and the knee, they are bolted.

Pieces of oak timber fayed and bolted to the topsides, one on each side abaft the fore channels, with a sheave fitted in the upper part for the convenience of hauling home the main tack.

That part of the waterways which is left the thickest and above the deckplank. It is bearded back that the lower seam of spirketting may be more conveniently caulked, and is gouged hollow in front to form a water-course.

To Chinse. To caulk slightly with a knife or chisel those seams or openings that will not bear the force required for caulking in a more proper manner.

Those substantial strakes worked withinside the ship upon which the ends of the beams are placed.

A term generally used to express the acuteness or sharpness of a ship's body; as when a ship is formed very acute or sharp forward and the same aft she is said to be clean both forward and aft.

A term applied to the construction of some vessels and boats when the planks of the bottom are so disposed that the lower edge of every plank overlays the next under it, and the fastenings go through and clinch or turn upon the timbers. It is opposed to the term carvel-work.

Spreading the point of the bolt upon a ring, etc., by beating it with a hammer in order to prevent its drawing.

Uniting pieces of spar by means of tubular projections formed by cutting away the solid of one piece into a hollow, so as to make a projection on the other, in such a manner that they may correctly fit, the butts preventing the pieces from drawing asunder.

Coaks are fitted into the beams and knees of vessels to prevent their drawing.