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From: David Bull
Location: St. Catharines
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Remote Name: 209.159.176.249
Date: 01.29.09
Time: 09:32:19 PM
According to the International Maritime Dictionary by Rene deKerchove a Plank Sheer "is used in wooden shipbuilding and is a horizontal fore-and-aft-timber which forms the outer limit of the upper deck at the sides. Also called the covering board, washboard. It is fitted in short lengths with butts scarfed and edge-fastened, and is bolted to the deck beams and sheer strake. The bulwark stanchions cut through the plank sheer." Perhaps if is was called the sheer plank it would be easier to understand since more or less it is the plank(s) that visually give a vessel its sheer, the curve in the deck from fore to aft.
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