centre-board

Here was where another man in the boat would have been of value to him; for, with me but a few feet astern, he did not dare let go the tiller and run amidships to try to force down the centre-board.

DEMETRIOS CONTOS 2010

In a moment's breathing space, which he had gained from me by a clever trick, I saw him working impatiently with the centre-board, trying to force it down.

DEMETRIOS CONTOS 2010

Aft of the great centre-board case, through what was properly her keel, a hole was bored.

Charley's Coup 2010

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

THE SIEGE OF THE 'LANCASHIRE QUEEN' 2010

Something went wrong with his centre-board, so that it jammed in the case and would not go all the way down.

DEMETRIOS CONTOS 2010

He had our boat out of the water, cleaned and repainted its bottom, made a trifling alteration about the centre-board, overhauled the running gear, and sat up nearly all of Saturday night sewing on a new and much larger sail.

DEMETRIOS CONTOS 2010

I was a lad of twelve, with a decked-over, fourteen-foot, centre-board skiff which I had taught myself to sail.

SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

The words were yet on the lips of the boy when the centre-board jumped with a clang.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

Rounding Clump Point in a light centre-board cutter, the Boss, who was steering, asked

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The wooded inlets we dived into gave a brief respite from wind and spindrift, but called into use the lead and the centre-board tackle — two new and cumbrous complexities.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955