The trunk of a centreboard is ever in the way in a small cabin.
And now I am coming to my greatest heresy--I would not make a hole in the bottom of my boat and pass the orthodox centreboard through it; but I should sling on either side of her the heterodox leeboard.
The case of the centreboard is said to get in the way; but unless you want to load your whole boat with very bulky cargo, I am unable to conceive what it can get in the way of.
It is impossible to bring a centreboard boat into this tangle.
In rough water a centreboard must strain a boat more than a leeboard does.
Should girth or draft be used in the formula in centreboard vessels, some proportion of the drop of board should be added, and a limit should be placed on the weight of the board.
The wind heads the boat off standing back through the channel this time; the centreboard hits a rock and bumps up into its case; there is no harm done, but alas!
Mr. McNish deserves some credit in this matter, as he thoroughly believed in the centreboardwhen others (including the designer he employed) were sceptical.
It is necessary to build thecentreboard box and cut a hole through the bottom of the boat.
For the average row-boat or skiff, you can make the centreboard box about 48 inches long and not higher, of course, than the gunwales of the boat.
Of course it is an easy matter to rig sails on almost any sort of craft, but unless there is a keel or a centreboard the boat will make lee-way, i.
The centreboardbox should be generously painted with white lead on the bottom edges where it fits on the floor of the boat around the centreboard hole.
A rope may then be fastened to the loose end of the centreboard with a cross-stick attached to the end of the rope to prevent it from slipping down the hole in the box.
There will be no danger of the bolt's turning in its socket if the hole through the centreboard through which the bolt is thrust is made large enough.
Now to prevent such occurrences and to do away with the inconvenience of the centreboard in an open canoe, various designs of lee-boards have been made.
With this rope the centreboard may be raised or lowered to suit the pleasure of the sailor.
The only time that the author ever got in a serious scrape with his canoe, was when he carelessly sailed out in a storm, leaving the key to his fan centreboard at the boat-house.
The centreboard should move freely on the bolt, but the bolt itself should fit tightly in the sides of the box, otherwise the water will leak through.
The centreboard is hinged to the box by a bolt run through at the point marked A on Fig.
A sailing canoe, however, will require a rudder, a keel, and a centreboard as well.
The centreboard is so arranged that it can be raised or lowered by means of a line.
He impressed carefully on his mind the part of the boat in which he might, under favourable circumstances, expect to find the centreboard tackle.
The centreboard case was between his legs and when he tried to get his injured foot against anything firm he found it entangled in ropes which he could not kick away.
Priscilla, leaving Frank to steer, settled herself comfortably on the weather side of the boat between the centreboard case and the gunwale.
The breeze freshened and at the end of each tack the boat swung round so fast that Frank, with his maimed ankle, had hard work to scramble over the centreboard case to the weather side.
The anchor rope is foul of the centreboard and we can't get either the one or the other of them to move.
Lord Torrington stepped carefully on board and settled himself crouched into a position undignified for a member of the Cabinet, on the side of the centreboard case recommended by Peter Walsh.
Now, Cousin Frank," said Priscilla, "get hold of the centreboard rope and haul when I tell you.
However, if it has, we've nothing to do but haul up the centreboard and clear it.
We can keep the centreboard up as we're running, and if we do go on a rock, the tide will lift us off again.
Frank, still curled up beside the centreboard case, gazed under the sail at Inishark.
We'll never get through with the centreboard down.
Do you think you can be a bit nippier in getting over the centreboard than you were last time.
If your boat is so small as not to have so many men allotted to it, the centreboard and halyards may be tended by one man.
Take up the flooring and give the inside of your boat a couple of good coats of paint, devoting particular attention to the centreboard trunk where it joins the keelson.
At this time it would be well to bring your sail out and lay it on the ground in the sun so as to allow it to bleach, and give the centreboard a good scraping and varnishing or painting, as the case may be.
She's higher in the bows than an ordinary junk, and a trifle lower in the stern; a broad, shallow hull, requiring a centreboard on the wind.
I felt the centreboard drop; a patch of sail rose slowly on the mainmast.
It was decided to give up the centreboard this year--much to the disappointment of a great many patriotic yachtsmen, for the centreboard is a purely American institution--and the plans were consequently designed for a keel boat.
How does it feel to climb out on the centreboard in a gale?
Quick as a flash, the two sailors were out on the centreboard keel!
Mollett took the centreboard out and substituted a fixed keel with 5 cwt.
I tried a centreboard in the 4-tonner 'Swan,' but discarded it after one season.
Vigilant' represents perhaps more nearly than the others the so-called American type; she combines a broad beam with good depth, and with her centreboard down draws about 23 ft.
For ordinary occasions the racing centreboard was unshipped, and a smaller one substituted in its place.
The fin-keel type at home was almost as successful, except when brought into competition with a centreboard boat of sloop rig, 21 ft.
The chief characteristic, however, is the fin, or in effect a fixed centreboard carrying a weight of lead on its lower edge sufficient to give the craft stability enough to balance the rigging and press of wind in the sails.
Her centreboard was jammed, but finally it was lowered about eleven feet.
She carried a racing centreboard of 1/4-inch plating, 9 ft.
The centreboard is of the "dagger" pattern so commonly seen in the small bateau and skiff on the Shrewsbury River and vicinity.
We will now plank thecentreboard trunk, and this should be done with care, as there is nothing more annoying and troublesome than a leaky trunk.
She'll have to be hauled out for a day and the ballast come out of her around that centreboard box.
Now the Spray, with the centreboard up, does not draw very much more water than the tender, and by dropping the sails and all poling through, I think we can work her in clear to the other side.
There was no such thing as getting the centreboardup now.
Arthur Warren and Henry Burns now came aft, the iron centreboard was dropped, and the yacht was almost instantly under headway, standing out by the bluff and heading almost directly across the cove.
The dishes they had set out on the upturned leaves of the centreboard table rattled, and the yacht shook with the shock caused by the other boat clumsily bumping into them astern.
Then he fell over sidewise and hit a corner of the centreboard box.
At the same time, the centreboard rod, hit by some object, was forced part way upward through its box.
The centreboard was a novelty to us, and we could see how close it helped the little vessel to sail in the eye of the wind.
Had it not been that the boat had a centreboard we would have made small progress.
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