Word: garboard
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...Greece. Much of his time is spent making crusty pronouncements from the poop ("A marina is the yachtsmen's slum"), and there is nothing here for people who think port is something that comes in a bottle. But anybody who can tell a top carling from a garboard strake will want a copy of Spring Tides in his dunnage the next time he does a windward dozen...
...French and Spanish navies were rotten to their garboard strakes, Pope makes clear that the British was rotten to its keelson. Its ships were badly designed and badly built. Crews were made up largely of pressed men, recruited by a system of legalized kidnaping. They were fed swill unfit for swine, and discipline was inhumanly savage by today's standards. But long years of keeping the sea, often for 18 months without making port, made them magnificent seamen. Something else, which Pope finds hard to define, made them patriots. And Admiral...
...Boston syndicate, was designed by a member of the syndicate, Frank Paine. She has a beam of 22 ft. 4 in. and is unique among cup contenders in that she has no cast-lead keel but carries her ballast in a trough-keel formed by moulding the garboard plates into a hollow space, where lead will be stowed as needed...
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