wooden ship construction


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Posted by Bob Saxton on December 23, 19103 at 18:32:22:

Can someone familiar with the construction of old ships tell me if there would be a reason that oak planks ten feet or longer would be about one inch thinner on one edge than on the other- 3" on one edge and 2" on the other? It also has 1" dia. drilled holes 8 apart.


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