wooden hull
Ship's timber shell
A wooden hull is a boat or ship's outer shell constructed from timber, the dominant form of shipbuilding for millennia before steel and fiberglass.
Wooden hulls require regular maintenance—caulking seams, preventing rot—but remain prized for traditional craft and wooden boat enthusiasts: The old schooner's wooden hull had been restored plank by plank.
- plankingWooden boards collectively
- caulkingMaterial for sealing gaps
- gunwaleShip's side top edge
- keelHull's structural base
- birchPale deciduous hardwood
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- steamboatpaddle wheel, steam engine, boiler, smokestacks, pilot house
- boat hullscatamaran, trimaran, monohull, multihull, flat bottom
- steamshipssteamship, steamboat, paddle steamer, paddleboat, paddlewheel