ABSTRACT
Reverse-clinker planking is so called to distinguish it from European clinker, a term which has had long usage. Boats are said to have reverse-clinker planking when each succeeding strake overlaps inboard the upper edge of the strake below, as in the boats discussed in Chapters 2 and 3. In European clinker, on the other hand, the upper plank overlaps outboard of the lower (see Fig. 2.3 above). Boats with this latter form of planking are also found in India (Greenhill, 1971: 107-109); these are also said to have ‘European clinker’ planking, but there is no implication in this usage that this is European in origin.
