Special Strakes
The strake immediately adjacent to the keel is known as the garboard strake. There are two, one on each side of the keel.
The longest continuous strake at the top of the side of the vessel on the main deck is called the sheer strake. In old vessels, a rubbing strake was built in just below a carvel sheer strake. It was much less broad but thicker than other strakes so that it projected and took any rubbing against piers or other boats when the boat was in use. In clinker boats, the rubbing strake was applied to the outside of the sheer strake. Others have no special name other than bottom strakes, bilge strakes and topside strakes. Many current pleasure craft reflect this history by providing the boat with a mechanically-attached (and therefore replaceable) rub rail at the location formerly occupied by a rubbing strake.
A stealer is a short strake employed to reduce the width of plank required where the girth of the hull increases. It is commonly employed in carvel and iron/steel shipbuilding, but there are very few, possibly only one type of, clinker craft that use them.
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