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Use of leeboards, while it adds complexity to the process of tacking, leaves the floor of the boat unobstructed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Similar pairs of steering leeboards appear frequently in early 2nd century depictions of ships.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Bolger also advocated the use of traditional sailing rigs and leeboards.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He further reasoned that the sharpie was an ideal shape for a trailer sailer with either leeboards or bilgeboards to provide lateral plane.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In good conditions, sailing barges could attain speeds over 12 knots, and their leeboards allowed them to be highly effective windward performers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Modern proa hulls are often symmetrical, and use leeboards for lateral resistance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Unlike centerboards, which are symmetric along the boat's axis, leeboards are often asymmetric, so they more efficiently provide lift in one direction only.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Scow schooners had a broad, shallow hull, and used centreboards, bilgeboards or leeboards rather than a deep keel.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To avoid excessive leeway, or leeward drift due to their flat bottoms, smaller vessels were usually fitted with leeboards.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If a daggerboard is located off center, then it is called aleeboardor a bilgeboard.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, some small sailboat designers claim to have created seaworthy vessels with only a single, fixedleeboard.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As with a sailing barge, sailing was achieved by means of aleeboardinstead of having a deep keel.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Along with theleeboardthe boat gained a small fixed keel, which assists when rowing or towing the dinghy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The windward performance of the ship was poor by modern standards as there was no centreboard, deep keel orleeboard.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He concluded that a singleleeboardis sufficient in many cases on small boats, and that rigs could be stepped off the centerline without much effect on performance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Smaller koffs could be equipped with leeboards.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theleeboardgives the boat additional versatility, making it easy to use as a rowboat and thus permitting it to be used as a tender or for fishing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On a traditional two-leeboard(or non-fixedleeboard) design, they are designed so that the windward board can be retracted when it isn't needed to reduce drag.
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