Word: clinkering
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...practice boat used by the Cambridge (Eng.) University eight is clinker built, on a lighter style than the eights usually used as practice boats, and is made of spruce. She is fitted with all the latest improvements, and may be termed a racing boat...
...asked me to write you what I know about college rowing here. The science of rowing, or, rather, of turning out a good crew, may be resolved into one grand and simple element, and a few minor ones. The all important element is "tubbing"; a "tub" being a clinker-built boat about twelve feet long and four wide, with an experienced oarsman sitting in the stern, and two green hands, or otherwise, at the oars. I say "or otherwise," for even the members of the 'Varsity are tubbed up to the day of the race. When a man is given...