Actually, the big cost saver between the aluminum hull of the earlier boats and the wooden hull is the reduction in fairing costs on the wooden hull. Once the boat is flipped, the interior is half ...

An Indonesian search and rescue ship found a wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees that capsized and began pulling survivors who had been standing on its hull to ...

The first racing shells, known as Lapstrake, or clinker boats, had hulls made from overlapping wooden planks called strakes. The hull is the shell frame, or main body, of the boat. George Pocock ...