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    A centreboard or centerboard (US) is a retractable hull appendage which pivots out of a slot in the hull of a sailboat, known as a centreboard trunk (UK)...
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    A daggerboard is a retractable centreboard used by various sailing craft. While other types of centreboard may pivot to retract, a daggerboard slides...
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  • This is a List of World Championships medalists in sailing in centreboard classes. World Championships in Sailing ISAF Sailing World Championships World...
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    -being metal- have the secondary purpose of being a counterweight, and centreboards and daggerboards, which are of lighter weight, do not have the secondary...
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    mounted in pairs on each side of a hull, leeboards function much like a centreboard, allowing shallow-draft craft to ply waters fixed keel boats cannot....
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    rigging, engine, transmission, propeller), or controls (helm, rudder, centreboard, daggerboards, rigging). Similarly, a jury mast is a replacement mast...
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    type without a boom and the peculiarity of having neither rudder nor centreboard. The steering of the boat is carried out with the movement and distribution...
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  • weighted bulb, or an optional stub keel with a bottom beaching plate, centreboard and twin rudders to allow it to remain upright when beached. The fin...
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    Smooth curve hulls are hulls that use, just like the curved hulls, a centreboard, or an attached keel.[citation needed] Semi round bilge hulls are somewhat...
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  • Boom brake Bow or prow Bowsprit Cable Capstan Cathead Carpenter's walk Centreboard Chains Cockpit Companionway Crow's nest Daggerboard Deck Figurehead Forecastle...
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    in the country to which the challenging and defending clubs belong. Centreboard or sliding keel vessels are allowed with no restrictions nor limitations...
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    49er FX Finn IQFoil Laser Standard Laser Radial Nacra 17 World Sailing centreboard classes 29er 420 505 B14 Byte Cadet Contender Enterprise Europe Fireball...
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  • Bruce foil, a foil used on an outrigger to prevent a boat from heeling Centreboard, a movable keel that functions as a foil Foilboard, a surfboard using...
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    five essential controls: The sails The foils (i.e. the daggerboard or centreboard and rudder and sometimes lifting foils as found on the Moth) The trim...
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  • Nationality 2015 present Centreboard 470 470 World Championships Fleet Open – 1970 1984 annually no longer held Centreboard 470 470 World Championships...
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  • The European championships in sailing are a series of sailing championships in Europe organized or sanctioned by the European Sailing Federation (EUROSAF)...
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  • Thumbnail for Catboat
    gaff rigged, though Bermuda rig is also used. Most are fitted with a centreboard, although some have a keel. The hull can be 3.7 to 12.2 metres (12 to...
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    100 lb (45 kg) of ballast in the steel centreboard. The boat has a draft of 4.00 ft (1.22 m) with the centreboard extended and 0.83 ft (0.25 m) with it...
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    killing prey. The submerged dorsal sail would have provided a strong centreboard-like counterforce for powerful sidewards movements of the strong neck...
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    comment that designing a multihull is similar to designing an aircraft. A centreboard or daggerboard is retractable lightweight keel which can be pulled up...
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  • rudders controlled by a tiller and a fixed stub keel with a retractable centreboard. It displaces 2,745 lb (1,245 kg) empty and carries 661 lb (300 kg) of...
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  • sail from place to place, but could lower their masts and raise their centreboards, allowing mules to tow them through canals. The design allowed their...
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    slack bilges in the section (to give greater stability); by the 1850s centreboards were common. The last whaleships to carry whaleboats worked under oar...
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    reason being that a centreboard/keel is not needed for sailing downwind and simply adds to the drag of the hull. Raising the centreboard reduces drag and...
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  • Thumbnail for Firefly (dinghy)
    tiller and a retractable centreboard. It displaces 260 lb (118 kg). The boat has a draft of 4.25 ft (1.30 m) with the centreboard extended and 10 in (25 cm)...
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    spars. The hull is a single hard chine scow design, with a retractable centreboard, a vertical transom, a transom-hung, kick-up rudder controlled by a tiller...
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    sailboats can normally be righted by standing or pulling down on the centreboard, daggerboard (or bilgeboard in a scow) to lift the mast clear of the...
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  • Thumbnail for 470 (dinghy)
    470 (Four-Seventy) is a double-handed monohull planing dinghy with a centreboard, Bermuda rig, and centre sheeting. Equipped with a spinnaker, trapeze...
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