Waterway

Pieces of timber fitted in a fore and att direction, on the beam-ends of the several decks, against the frames; and fastened by through-bolts to the beam-ends and the frame; they are generally at least double the thickne of the deck-planking, of which they form the boundary. If a waterway is constructed of two strakes of timber one alongside the other, the outer-strake is called the a main-waterway, ” and the inside one the u thin —, or inner-waterway. ” See Plates 6.7. 12 & 13.