Close to her garboard strake on the starboard side he saw where.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference

The garboard strake is the very bottom-most plate in the bottom of.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference

The keel and stem are both in one piece, as shown, and to this the garboard strake is to be fastened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference

I own this boat from garboard to main truck, bowsprit-tip to boom-end, and I don't wear any man's dog-collar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

The two first strakes (garboard strakes), however, are single, 7 inches thick, and are bolted both to the keel and to the frame-timbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912] Reference

Blocked up on a tidewater slipway, every detail of the vessel was visible, even to the last fathom of oakum now being hammered into her port garboard seam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference

"I've got one-sixteenth of an inch play at any rate," said the garboard strake triumphantly; and so he had, and all the bottom of the ship felt a good deal easier for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference

Bent over and patted her garboard strake, and called upon Wooden.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference

When keel and garboard stroke plates snapped, all that was left of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stowaway Girl] Reference

Don't you know that the garboard streak is the last plank next the keel?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blix] Reference

"I've got one fraction of an inch play, at any rate," said the garboard-strake, triumphantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference

Usually a section of the keel and a portion of the garboard streaks were in sight above the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference

Poor man, it knocked him silly, and he fell over the garboard-strake and barked his shin on the cat-heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories] Reference

The ship's in splendid condition; there's next to nothing wrong with her but the garboard streak and the sternpost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrecker] Reference

In an unguarded moment he had written that his schooner's name "was painted in showy gilt letters upon her garboard streak.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blix] Reference

Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside, and was seated not very far from the garboard-strake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference

It knocked down trees, swept over the lake and caught the little canoe on the crest of a wave, right under the garboard streak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodcraft] Reference

The whole of her framing was set up and secured, and the garboard and two adjacent streaks on each side bolted to: and that was all.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Treasure Bound] Reference

The second devil was the garboard seam in the hull planking, between the keel and the garboard strake -- the bottom strake of the hull planking.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference

The garboard-strake is the lowest plate in the bottom of a ship, and the Dimbula's garboard-strake was nearly three-quarters of an inch mild steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference

We did so, and found that the garboard streak was broken and two of her timbers, but they were easy to repair; in every other respect she was sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago] Reference

We did so, and found that the garboard strake was broken and two of her timbers, but they were easy to repair; in every other respect she was sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Privateersman] Reference

The water in the main channel was so deep that it was clean up to the critter's garboard strake, and still, by the creepin ', I couldn't get him out of a walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Harbor] Reference

I'm the garboard-strake, and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference

I'm the garboard strake, and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference

(garboard strakes), however, are single, 7 inches thick, and are bolted both to the keel and to the frame-timbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2] Reference

A sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside and was seated not very far from the garboard strake.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference

A ship, and the "Dimbula's" garboard strake (she was a flat-bottomed boat) was nearly three-quarters of an inch mild steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference

You don't happen to know what the garboard strake is, do you? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Condensed Novels: New Burlesques] Reference

"Yes," said I, "but how are we to cut the vessel out of the ice in which she is seated to above the garboard streak?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frozen Pirate] Reference

You mean counter, not garboard streak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blix] Reference

So splice the garboard strakes, my lads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alice in Blunderland An Iridescent Dream] Reference

"garboard streak! garboard streak?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blix] Reference

"What's the garboard streak, Condy?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blix] Reference

"'Oh, fly aloft to the garboard strake!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference

"'Oh, fly aloft to the garboard-strake.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Nonsense Anthology] Reference

Ease off there! "roared the garboard strake.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference

Ease off; there! "roared the garboard-strake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference