Green Dragon was the worst affected, suffering a damaged daggerboard when a line sawed into it. From Wordnik.com. [Sail-World.com USA Latest News] Reference
On landing they they found that one of the rudders had sheared off and part of a daggerboard and the bowsprit were gone. From Wordnik.com. [Sail-World.com USA Latest News] Reference
Besides some broken sails, they suffered a huge wipe out, breaking a rudder, daggerboard and bowsprit, and shredding their spinnaker in the process. From Wordnik.com. [Sail-World.com USA Latest News] Reference
It gave the shore crew time to make some serious improvements to the boat including new daggerboard bearings which we hope will improve the underwater hydrodynamics. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Meanwhile, Tom Braidwood / AUS and Damien Foxall / IRL have been busy fixing other things, including water leaking badly through the glue joining the port daggerboard. From Wordnik.com. [Sail-World.com USA Latest News] Reference
Jon and Ben managed to roll over the top at the start of the run, but overstood the finish and let Andy and Tom through, until a broken daggerboard cost them the race. From Wordnik.com. [Sail-World.com USA Latest News] Reference
They reported that they dragged the long line for a while before finally cutting it, bringing nearly 10 metres on board and suspect there is some minor damage to the daggerboard which may require repair. From Wordnik.com. [Sail-World.com USA Latest News] Reference
"In the first race, it was a bit tricky - after the start people were not sure about planing with daggerboard, but I believed in going planing and until the end of the first upwind it paid off," recounted Mashiah. From Wordnik.com. [ISAF News] Reference
4 - Prepare the new runner, new daggerboard down, release a bit of mainsheet, keel released to leeward. From Wordnik.com. [YBW News] Reference
Commencing with some sailing theory it looks at how the slot effects the drive of the mainsail under different points of sail, and how the size of the slot should be varied with the wind strength to give maximum drive, how to identify backwinding, and how to adjust the sails to remove or minimize its effect, how the driving forces acting on the sail can be divided into side and forward components, and how these vary for beating, reaching and running and how the resisting forces acting on a boat's daggerboard/centreboard and rudder act in relation to the sail forces when beating, reaching and running. From Wordnik.com. [Boats and Boating Online Resource Center. Find Boating News, Products and Services. Boating RSS Feed Available.] Reference
John moved forward and pulled the daggerboard up. From Wordnik.com. [Crystal Rain] Reference
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