leeboard-leeboard: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is leeboard?

  • One of a pair of movable boards or plates attached to the hull of a sailing vessel to reduce downwind drift.
    Eines von einem Paar beweglicher Bretter oder Platten, die am Rumpf eines Segelschiffs befestigt sind, um die Abwärtsdrift zu reduzieren.