- self-righting vessels.
Modern developments allow leeboards to act as a speed-enhancing
lifting foil (hydrofoil).
Leeboards existed in
China from at
least the eighth...
-
Thames in London. The flat-bottomed barges, with a
shallow draught and
leeboards, were
perfectly adapted to the
Thames Estuary, with its
shallow waters...
-
drift due to
their flat bottoms,
smaller vessels were
usually ****ed with
leeboards.
After 1830, a
modernised type of
galiot was
developed that
featured a...
- materials.
Bolger also
advocated the use of
traditional sailing rigs and
leeboards. From the 1990s, Phil
Bolger teamed with his wife
Susanne Altenburger...
- be
steered crosswise and
against prevailing winds,
using sideboards (
leeboards) in lieu of a
fixed keel. The name of the
vessels was
derived from the...
-
mechanically weakly attached rudder, some
junks were also
equipped with
leeboards or
dagger boards. The world's
oldest known depiction of a stern-mounted...
-
shallow structural keels, and are
nearly flat-bottomed and
often used
leeboards if
forced in open water,
while modern recreational keelboats have prominent...
-
would have gaff rig, a
bluff bow and stern, a pair of
leeboards and a
large rudder. The
leeboards and
rudder would be
raised by an
arrangement of blocks...
- to
movable appendages, such as centreboards, daggerboards, drop keels,
leeboards, and
retractable rudders Projection of non-retractable rudders, propellers...
- when the tide was out. By 1848
scows were
being rigged for
sailing using leeboards or
sliding keels. They were also used as dumb
barges towed by steamers...
