Leeboards: Anti-drift boards attached to the gunwale.
Leech: Trailing edge of a sail.
Lee helm: The tendency of a sailboat to turn the bow to leeward, compared to weather helm, unless corrective rudder action is taken.
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.
Leeboards are not common in commercially built boats, because many people consider them inelegant and awkward (thus preventing them from being used in commercial boats, and perpetuating the cycle).
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.
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.
Knight fitted his boat with leeboards, which no doubt served their purpose admirably. I should, however, favor a false keel and an iron shoe as being more efficient and less unsightly.
1) A fast, flat-bottomed, blunt-bowed racing sailboat popular on small lakes. Most have leeboards. 2) Around salt waer, a derogatory term for a slow, bulky boat like a garbage scow.
screw
Propeller.
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.
latitude ...
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.
Single leeboards are used as a way of converting a non-sailing boat to sail without the necessity of cutting holes in the hull or installing permanent outside keels. LEECH The aft most or back edge of a sail.
 See also: Hull, Boat, Leeboard, Centerboard, Windward
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