Plural of carvel; multiple small sailing ships with smooth, edge-fitted hull construction.
Standard English plural of carvel, formed by adding -s. Refers to the fleet of Portuguese and Spanish exploration vessels that dominated the Age of Discovery.
Fleets of carvels sailing across the Atlantic weren't just boats—they represented a completely different approach to shipbuilding that would have seemed radical to medieval shipwrights used to overlapping, clinker-built designs.
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