centreboard

1 His black eyes were flashing eagerly, and his face was flushed with suppressed excitement, as he dropped the centreboard, sprang forward with a single leap, and put up the sail.

2 A sailing canoe, however, will require a rudder, a keel, and a centreboard as well.

3 The place was brightly lighted by a nickelled lamp, though it was scarcely four feet high and the centreboard trunk occupied the middle of it.

4 His moment had come when she gave him the order about the centreboard.

5 We will now plank the centreboard trunk, and this should be done with care, as there is nothing more annoying and troublesome than a leaky trunk.

6 He grasped the centreboard case, the nearest stable thing at hand, and pulled himself up again into the middle of the boat.

7 Now, Cousin Frank," said Priscilla, "get hold of the centreboard rope and haul when I tell you.

8 The centreboard is so arranged that it can be raised or lowered by means of a line.

9 Had it not been that the boat had a centreboard we would have made small progress.

10 Then he will begin to talk keels and centreboards and want to take his blankets out and stop aboard all night.

11 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.

12 He impressed carefully on his mind the part of the boat in which he might, under favourable circumstances, expect to find the centreboard tackle.

13 The centreboard is of the "dagger" pattern so commonly seen in the small bateau and skiff on the Shrewsbury River and vicinity.

14 As they sailed toward it, with Billy Barlow at the wheel, he asked Will Rogers how it happened that he had been trying to sail close hauled with his centreboard up.

15 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.

16 She was to be fitted with a sliding keel, or centreboard, and was deemed to be a boat of staunch sea-going qualities, as well as being good for close-in coastal service.

17 That might have been the last barrel which I saw under the gravel the day before yesterday when our anchor rope got foul of the centreboard.

18 "Maybe she was a centreboard, sad that's where you kept the board."

19 It is fitted with a centreboard, and is an excellent cruising craft.

20 The amateur skipper cast off from the little dock, lowered the centreboard, and stretched himself lazily in the stern, with one hand on the tiller.

1 装有升降板的小船

centerboard

2 垂直升降板

centerboard

3 中插板

daggerboard