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Carvel (boat building) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Carvel construction; Carvel planking means the kind you see on older vessels, longitudinal planks nailed or screwed onto steam bent or sawn frames. The advantage of a 'normally' or carvel planked boat is that any plank may be removed and replaced without ripping the boat apart.
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A review of hull construction methods used in wood boat building today. Techniques include traditional lapstrake, traditional carvel, glued lapstrake, glued carvel, strip planking, multiple veneer, cold moulded and plywood construction. ... Traditional Carvel ... Multiple Veneer Construction...
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Carvel planked construction forms are very old. Carvel planked trading vessels sailed the seas of the ancient world long before anyone thought to write down anything about even the military vessels of the times. The history of this form is measured in thousands of years and has been used around the world.
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The advantages of this method, apart from the fact that you end up with a beautiful round bilged hull, are lower cost, weight and time when compared with traditional carvel construction and the need for less skills and tools.
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Carvel construction probably derives from the Portuguese word "caravela" or caravel, a ship type that was current iin the 15th century. It a boat and ship building system where the planks are flush: the edges meeting and giving the shell a smooth surface instead of overlapping as in the clinker system.
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Clinker Vs. Carvel Hull Construction ... In boatbuilding practice, fitting clinker planks is not appreciably harder or more time-consuming than it is in carvel construction - the total amount of contact surface is about the same - and most of the other tasks are about the same in terms of time and difficulty,
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