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centreboard

(ˈsɛntəˌbɔːd) or

centerboard

(Nautical Terms) a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering. Compare daggerboard

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Noun

centreboard - a retractable fin keel used on sailboats to prevent drifting to leeward

centerboard, drop keel, sliding keel

daggerboard - a removable centerboard on a small sailboat that can be lowered into the water to serve as a keel

fin keel - a metal plate projecting from the keel of a shallow vessel to give it greater lateral stability

sailboat, sailing boat - a small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast

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centreboard

centerboard (US) [ˈsentəbɔːd] N → orza f de deriva

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centreboard

[ˈsɛntəˌbɔːd] n (Naut) → deriva

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When I was fourteen, my head filled with the tales of the old voyagers, my vision with tropic isles and far sea-rims, I was sailing a small centreboard skiff around San Francisco Bay and on the Oakland Estuary.

I pulled up my centreboard, ran full tilt into the mud, took in sail, and, standing in the stern, as I had often done at low tide, I began to shove the skiff with an oar.

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She was a big, flat-bottomed, square-sterned craft, sloop-rigged, with a sprung mast, slack rigging, dilapidated sails, and rotten running-gear, clumsy to handle and uncertain in bringing about, and she smelled vilely of coal tar, with which strange stuff she had been smeared from stem to stern and from cabin-roof to centreboard. And to cap it all, Coal Tar Maggie was printed in great white letters the whole length of either side.

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The centreboard of this US administration's foreign policy team will remain Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, still steady in balancing competing views.

Rexit in America: Trump administration gears up for a new direction

Richards and the crew now affectionately refer to their charge as the 'Swiss Army Knife', because of the number of appendages she boasts: a hydrofoil wing, a retractable forward centreboard, two retractable daggerboards, a canting keel, and the conventional rudder at the stern.

Boat notes

THE 470 is a pairs event which takes place in a double-handed monohull planing dinghy with a centreboard, Bermuda rig, and centre sheeting.

THE EVENT

Nazgul of Fordell, with its shape and deck typical of a vintage boat, has the quick works of a modern yacht, including a weighted keel and centreboard and a carbon mast.

At les voiles D'antibes, 42 vintage boats for the panerai classic yachts challenge 2009

Of all things mechanical, he loved sailboats the most, planing into the wind with a sheet of canvas, a centreboard and a tiller, which he picked up from perusing the Horatio Hornblower novels.

Delicate Art of Brotherly Love

Despite starting 33-1, the daughter of Dr Fong always travelled well just off the pace before coming with a winning run on the outside and smoothly stretching two lengths clear of Centreboard.

Horse Racing: Ocean's win no mystery to connections; Bath

bath: 5.30 Meerlust, 6.00 Centreboard, 6.30 Guadiana, 7.00 Gwilym, 7.30 Salvestro, 8.00 Mighty Splash.