"Lap-straked" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sloop again to reef down and make all taut. Her sailor-soul would not allow her to leave the lapstreak in ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper
... sailboats under 5 tons and rowboats. The sailboats are generally small square-sterned sloops, open in the afterpart, but with a cuddy forward. They are all built with centerboards, and some are lapstreak while others are "set work." Around the afterpart of the standing room is a seat, the ballast is floored over, and two little bunks and a stove generally help to furnish the cuddy. They vary in length from 16 to 26 feet and in ...
— The Lobster Fishery of Maine - Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. 19, Pages 241-265, 1899 • John N. Cobb |
