The clinker-built construction of overlapping planks secured by clench nails conferred great strength with flexibility. |
The boat is thus a transitional form between the dug-out canoe and the clinker-built boat. |
The clinker-built whaler lay trapped between the twin worlds of darkling sea and shadow-limned night. |
Another light, clinker-built boat was launched, and reached him just right. |
In the Mediaeval era, the Vikings used clinker-built ships to colonize Iceland, Greenland, Canada, and Russia. |
Well preserved remains of Viking ships show they were clinker-built of overlapping planks and measured between about 17.5m and 36m in length. |