Installing Thwarts

摘要

With the hull completed, leveled athwartships, and braced, and with its risers or cleats installed, the builder is often confronted with a paucity of information for installing thwarts. A thwart is a seat or bench, usually made from a plank laid flat, that sets athwartships in a rowboat, and is supported at each end by a riser or cleat that, in turn, is attached to the hull. The plans will likely (but not always) reveal the thickness and width of the thwart, but not its greatest length, the curve of its ends where they butt against (or close to) the hull, or the often compound bevel on those curved ends.