The centreboard was a novelty to us, and we could see how close it helped the little vessel to sail in the eye of the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference

Had it not been that the boat had a centreboard we would have made small progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference

A sailing canoe, however, will require a rudder, a keel, and a centreboard as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference

The centreboard is so arranged that it can be raised or lowered by means of a line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference

The centreboard banged up in its casing, and the yawl grounded on gravel with a lurch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowfane]

Brooklyn, N.Y., a 16-foot flat-bottomed skiff with centreboard, sail, oars and oarlocks, for a 46 or 48-inch rubber-tired steel-spoked bicycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference

On either side the boys had fitted up small bunks that served for lounging during calm weather, and in the middle of this space, on the centreboard box, they had arranged a table on which stood a small oil stove.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage with Captain Dynamite] Reference

"Maybe she was a centreboard, and that's where you kept the board.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq.] Reference

His moment had come when she gave him the order about the centreboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

Frank, still curled up beside the centreboard case, gazed under the sail at Inishark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

Do you think you can be a bit nippier in getting over the centreboard than you were last time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

I did try the centreboard but no luck; I was just too exhausted and shaken from the experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sail-World.com USA Latest News] Reference

"The anchor rope is foul of the centreboard and we can't get either the one or the other of them to move.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

He grasped the centreboard case, the nearest stable thing at hand, and pulled himself up again into the middle of the boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

Boat trim and helming techniques which promote maximum efficiency of the rudder and centreboard in singlehanded or doublehanded dinghies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boats and Boating Online Resource Center. Find Boating News, Products and Services. Boating RSS Feed Available.] Reference

Priscilla, leaving Frank to steer, settled herself comfortably on the weather side of the boat between the centreboard case and the gunwale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

He impressed carefully on his mind the part of the boat in which he might, under favourable circumstances, expect to find the centreboard tackle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

Some of them had wings, or boards, at their sides, which were let down when the craft was going on the wind, thus serving the same purpose as a centreboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim] Reference

"I asked," said Priscilla, "because in order to get out of the bay I shall have to jibe, and that means that you've got to hop across the centreboard case.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

They will ensure the dinghy hull and centreboard rudder are smooth, fair and light by using, fibreglass, epoxy, gelcoat, and other fairing materials, wet sanding or dry sanding and cleaning solvents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boats and Boating Online Resource Center. Find Boating News, Products and Services. Boating RSS Feed Available.] Reference

We'll never get through with the centreboard down. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

However, if it has, we've nothing to do but haul up the centreboard and clear it. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

Fred, by yonder centreboard I swear that before the race is over we will win her back. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 19th, 1914] Reference

That seems to me very much the way we are now with that anchor rope and the centreboard. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

"Now, Cousin Frank," said Priscilla, "get hold of the centreboard rope and haul when I tell you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

"The only thing I can think of," said Priscilla, "is that the anchor rope has got round the centreboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

J.G. Ross, Mariner’s Harbor, Staten Island, N.Y., a 12-foot round-bottomed row-boat with centreboard and oars, for a photographic outfit, a bicycle or a press.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference

The centreboard remained immovable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

She took the centreboard rope and pulled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

Priscilla hauled at the rope of the centreboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

"Up centreboard, quick.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

"Up centreboard," said Priscilla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference