Leeboards are no longer common in commercially built boats, because many people consider them inelegant and awkward. They are far more common in home-built boats, especially the Puddle Duck Racer and stitch and glue type sailboats.
Leeboard
A board placed alongside a berth to keep its occupant from falling out when a boat heels.
Leeward
The direction away from the wind. Opposite of windward.
Leeboards:
Boards fixed vertically to a boat to prevent leeway
Leebow:
In sailboat racing, to disturb the wind of a windward boat by positioning your boat a bit ahead and to leeward.
leeboard
A retractable fin in the water that is hung not from the centerline (as a centerboard is) but outboard near the rail. Leeboards usually come in pairs, one on each side.
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Leeboards
(1) Boards projecting into the water from the lee side of a vessel to help keep it from slipping sideways in the water when traveling across the wind, similar in intent to a keel.
Leeboard -- An old-fashioned contrivance to check leeway, still in use on some Dutch vessels and English barges.
Load waterline -- The line of flotation when a vessel is properly ballasted or laden.
Luff -- To come closer to the wind.
LEEBOARD These are paddle-shaped boards installed on the outside of the gunwale on each side of a sailboat. The board on the "lee" side is lowered to prevent leeway.
Keels, daggerboards, centerboards, and leeboards are all used to improve a boat's lateral resistance.
Latitude - The distance north or south of the equator measured and expressed in degrees.
The ability of a boat to keep from being moved sideways by the wind. Keels, daggerboards, centerboards, and leeboards are all used to improve a boat's lateral resistance.
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lateral resistance - The ability of a boat to keep from being moved sideways by the wind. Keels, daggerboards, centerboards, and leeboards are all used to improve a boat's lateral resistance.
The test vessel was equipped with every imaginable cruising option from teak decks and a full sail inventory to leeboards and a collapsible teak cockpit table.
different developments of this type of vessel used in the West Indies and along the American coast. An early improvement was to split the " dug-out " into two sections and insert a flat bottom of planking to widen it; another form had a leeboard, ...
 See also: Boat, Hull, Centerboard, Light, Windward
  
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