Carvel Built

carvel built - Built with the plank flush edge to edge, and the seams caulked and payed.

Carvel built -- Constructed with the planks flush edge to edge and the seams caulked and payed.
Caulking -- Driving oakum into the seams of a vessel with a mallet and a blunt chisel called a caulking iron.

"carvel built".
Close aboard: Near a ship.
Close-hauled: Of a vessel beating as close to the wind direction as possible.
Club hauling The ship drops one of its anchors at high speed to turn abruptly.

The " Canadian," a clinker or carvel built mahogany or cedar or bass-wood canoe, or the painted canvas, bark or compressed paper canoe, all on the general lines of the Indian birch bark, are as common on American rivers as the punt is on the Thames, ...

See also: Fair, Dead eye, Abaft, Futtocks, Box the compass