"And everybody needed a clinker-built boat, maybe two or three in fact - one on the mainland and one on the island. "They were just the workhorse, like the tractor on the land." Clinker-built ...
Harry Clasper, a prominent English rower and boat builder, first used outriggers in the 1840s. The first racing shells, known as Lapstrake, or clinker boats, had hulls made from overlapping wooden ...