🔍 Key Concepts

• Shell plating strakes and how they are named from the keel upward • Location and purpose of the garboard strake, bilge strake, and sheer strake • Difference between a keel plate and the first/adjacent strakes next to it

💭 Think About

• Look carefully at where letter H is in relation to the centerline keel and the turn of the bilge. Is it at the very bottom center, just next to it, or up at the deck edge? • Compare the shape of the strake at H: is it part of the flat bottom, the rounded bilge area, or the topside near the weather deck? • Ask yourself which named strake is normally found close to the keel and which one is normally found up near the sheer (deck edge).

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify exactly which plate in the picture is the keel plate (letter G) and then count outward/upward from it. • Verify where the bilge (the curved area between bottom and side) is in this section and whether H lies in that curved area. • Confirm which strake name is associated with the deck edge / sheer line and whether H is anywhere near that location.