I trying to plank the deck on my Discovery. I'm sitting here with Peter Goodwins "English Man of War" and Donald Dressels "Planking Techniques" in front of me and a pile of planks and glue. I can't figure out how this works. No matter how I look at the drawings I just can't make any sense out of them. Old brain I guess. I think I could duplicate them but I like to know what I'm doing rather than just blindly following a drawing. Dressel includes a few rules with his drawing that kind of make sense but they use 4' and 5' separations and I'm not sure that applies to deck planking. Does anyone have a brief or lengthy description of what they are trying to accomplish? Something that maybe explains the widthwise and lengthwise separation of butt joints. Maybe a link. I tried searching the net and drew a blank.
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