A Carvel built boat.

[teenybash]

My oh bought a carvel built boat and would love to know where it was built. He bought it here in Caithness and presumes it would have been built here or Orkney and in the past it was used as a service boat.
Does anyone know how he could find out more ......:confused

[TBH]

You would need to supply more info on the boat.

[joxville]

From Wikipaedia:

In boat building, carvel built or carvel planking is a method of constructing wooden boats and tall ships by fixing planks to a frame so that the planks butt up against each other, edge to edge, gaining support from the frame and forming a smooth hull. Such planking requires caulking between the joints over and above that needed by the clinker built technology, but gives a stronger hull capable of taking a variety of full-rigged sail plans, albeit one of greater weight. On the up side, Carvel built construction enables greater length and breadth of hull as well as superior sail rigs because of its strong framing, and is the most critical development that enabled the centuries long dominance of the powers of Northern Europe in the Age of Sail and beyond.
The technology was probably reintroduced to the west via the Muslim culture of Al-Andalus, and its explorers of the 13th century, before the Christians had triumphed in reunifying Spain. Until the new dynastic union merging the Crown of Aragon with the Crown of Castile in 1479, creating what would become the Kingdom of Spain the Portuguese were the premier explorers of the western cultures.


More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carvel_(boat_building)

[teenybash]

You would need to supply more info on the boat.


The only other bits of info are... the boat is around 16/17ft long, mahogony built and has a caddy. She has a tiller but, oh has now fitted steering with the wheel now housed in the caddy. The person she was bought from didn't have her terribly long and possibly he got her from the Lybster Dunbeath area..... and as said before was used, in the past as a 'service boat.'

[Stack Rock]

Does the boat have a name? If so this may be of use to boat enthusiasts.

[Tighsonas4]

when you say service boat what does that imply, such as what service is there no name or nos on her anywhere regards tony