sternboard

A small cabin cruiser with Double-Six freshly painted on the sternboard chugged across the lake at a cautious speed.

The Cat Who Came To Breakfast Braun, Lilian Jackson 1994

Sally had paid him to put in a couple of new strakes and plane out a brand-new set of oars in place of the old ashen ones, and had painted a new name beneath the old one on the sternboard, so that now she was the _Indefatigable Woman_ for all the world to see.

News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

But to think of a sternboard at all, far more to think of profiting by one, were foreign to the schooner-sailor's mind.

The Wrecker 1898

Whether the _Congress's_ helm on this interesting occasion was shifted for sternboard I never inquired.

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life 1877

Under the combined impulses she, at 5.56, came up into the wind (3), lost her way, and, although her mainyard had been braced up, finally gathered sternboard; the upshot being that she lay paralyzed some seventy yards from the "Shannon" (3,

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 1877