Howdy gang - been a while since I posted here but I'm still kickin', and more to the point, still paddling!

In a recent email conversation with a friend in England, the subject of strip-built kayaks and canoes came up. After seeing a picture of my Outer Island, he wrote "is it strip planked construction?" Well, that got me to thinking. Yes, I guess so, at least that's what Uncle Nick calls it in his new book, although it was "The Strip-Built Sea Kayak" before that.

The word 'plank' always seemed a little obese to me, considering the svelte nature of a typical cedar strip. And it turns out that my Blighty bud had heard the term in reference to larger craft.

So what's the history of the term "strip-planked" for our canoes and kayaks, and how did the estimable Mr. Schade come to switch to it? Was it simply to differentiate the new book from the previous work, or is there something deeper going on here?