Usually a section of the keel and a portion of the garboard streaks were in sight above the sea.

Poor man, it knocked him silly, and he fell over the garboard-strake and barked his shin on the cat-heads.

I'm the garboard strake, and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something.

The keel and stem are both in one piece, as shown, and to this the garboard strake is to be fastened.

Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside and was seated not very far from the garboard strake.

It knocked down trees, swept over the lake and caught the little canoe on the crest of a wave, right under the garboard streak.

The two first strakes (garboard strakes), however, are single, 7 inches thick, and are bolted both to the keel and to the frame-timbers.

As a very learned man said on the last voyage (he is head quartermaster of the New York land garboard streak of the middle watch)

"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?