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.

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