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Meanings of garboard strake in English

The first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship.

Usage of garboard strake in English
1
I'm the garboard strake, and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
2
The keel and stem are both in one piece, as shown, and to this the garboard strake is to be fastened.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
3
Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside and was seated not very far from the garboard strake.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
4
The two first strakes ( garboard strakes), however, are single, 7 inches thick, and are bolted both to the keel and to the frame-timbers.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition...
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