Of course they lost ground until the centerboard could be used, after which they were able to make a course that would take them considerably nearer Hampton.
While fully aware of its disadvantages, I am a firm believer in the centerboard for small cruising boats.
The centerboard was driven clear up out of the case against the cabin roof, the sloop making a jump over the stone and into deep water on the other side.
To show the danger of forcing a boat off a rock let me cite one instance: A 50-foot sloop of the old flat-floored centerboard model struck on a stone when going free with a moderate wind.
When to leeward, the splendid craft rounded to the wind, rolling once till her brown bottom showed to the centerboard and they thought she was over, then righting and dashing ahead again like a thing possessed.
Joe dropped thecenterboard and returned, to be stationed at the jib-sheet.
Jimmy grumbled at his comrades for not having pumped her out, and then shivered as he jammed himself against the centerboard trunk and tried to light the rusty stove.
The case lay against the centerboard trunk, but they did not feel impatient to open it.
She would float in very shallow water with her centerboard up, and he had touched bottom with the canoe paddle a few yards away from her.
It was just deep enough for the sloop to creep into with her centerboard up, and the flats ran back from it into a thin mist on either side.
By and by, for she was shallow-bodied like most centerboard craft, it began to gather in a pool which washed to and fro across the floorings in her lee bilge, and at a shout from Jake he started the pump.
Now and then a jet of it shot up between the joints of the flooring or spouted through the opening made for the lifting-gear in the centerboard trunk.
The place was brightly lighted by a nickeled lamp, though it was scarcely four feet high and the centerboard trunk occupied the middle of it.
The centerboard had floated up and projected at the top, and it was about this that Captain Davis' arms were clasped.
Twas Lute's grip on the centerboard that saved him.
The sides, washboards, and end decks were then built, the stones removed, and the centerboard case fitted.
The cockpit ran from the bulkhead at the centerboard case to within 4 or 5 feet of the stern, where there was a light joiner bulkhead.
The middle one of these three planks was omitted at the centerboard case to form a slot.
In fact, it may have been because of articles in these publications that the daggerboard came to replace the pivoted centerboard in Chesapeake Bay skiffs and that the whole V-bottom design became popular so rapidly in the Bay area.
According to firsthand reports, she was a satisfactory cruiser, except that she was not very weatherly because her centerboard was too small.
She's higher in the bows than an ordinary junk, and lower in the stern; a broad, shallow hull that needs a centerboard on the wind.
I felt the centerboard drop; a patch of sail rose on the main.
A piece had been broken from the centerboard and the bottom was so badly scratched that it would have to be repainted before the race.
The floor and beams were steeply inclined, and he had to brace his feet against the centerboard trunk.
The Rowan, drawing little water when her centerboard was up, would shortly be afloat.
There was no mark in all the glittering stretch, but Andrew knew when he reached the main channel, and told Whitney to let the centerboard down.
Its illumination showed the oilskins swinging against the forecastle bulkhead, and the narrow table on top of the centerboard trunk, which ran up the middle of the floor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centerboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: companion; parts; ship
