Word: plywoods
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Thomas Lipton. It is a heavy boat, 77 ft. long, "made," said Builder George Nicholson, "to last a quarter of a century, maybe more." Its hull is of mahogany on a steel frame. The deck of the Shamrock IV was only half an inch thick and made of plywood, but you could load bricks on the two-inch planks of the Shamrock V. It will be much less speedy than the graceful boats which raced for the America's cup in the old days and which, with tiny hulls, carried far more sail than modern racers and were useless...