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- noun Plural form of
centerboard .
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Examples
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One group, whose only function is high speed and maximum performance, includes the Tornado, which has semirounded hulls, pivoting centerboards, and a fully articulating mast with full battened mainsail.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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One group, whose only function is high speed and maximum performance, includes the Tornado, which has semirounded hulls, pivoting centerboards, and a fully articulating mast with full battened mainsail.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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Perhaps they fouled the fishers 'centerboards or tillers, or clung to the handholds in hordes, until the boats couldn't move.
Destiny's Road Niven, Larry 1997
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A vast array of centerboards and crossboards and complex counterjets held it steady against the rising chop.
Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980
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" "Also, each town has several means of further stabilizing itself-centerboards, special fluids which can inhibit wave action, and so on.
Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980
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Shortly he will be setting a tiny leg-of-mutton and steering with an oar. then he will begin to talk keels and centerboards and want to take his blankets out and stop aboard all night.
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Twin rudders provided the steering, along with centerboards and two oars.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Upon reaching a canal, the masts were lowered and centerboards raised, transforming the vessel into a typical, shallow-draft canal boat.
WCAX - Local News 2010
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