Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 26, 2025
If he would go back to his starting point while the March winds are out, he must needs come down close to the ground and yewyaw towards his objective, making leeway like an old boat without ballast or centerboard. The grouse have taken to bud-eating from necessity birch buds mostly, with occasional trips to the orchards for variety.
She was aglow with admiration, the more so because the mechanics of boat-sailing was to her a complex and mysterious thing. "Where did you learn it all?" she inquired. "Taught myself, just naturally taught myself. I liked it, you see, an' what a fellow likes he's likeliest to do. This is my second boat. My first didn't have a centerboard.
Close under our lee quarter lay the breakers, less than a couple of hundred yards away. Lee Fu made frantic signals forward, where the crew were watching us in utter terror. I felt the centerboard drop; a patch of sail rose on the main. The boat answered, gathered headway, drove forward "Wilbur lay as he had fallen and made no move.
As a rule, one of the boys accompanied her, for the mainsail and centerboard were pretty heavy for her to handle unaided, but with Daddy Neil on board well, not much was left to be desired. During that month Peggy learned "how lightly falls the foot of time which only treads on flowers," and was appalled when she realized that only five more days remained of her father's leave.
It apprised Average Jones that, a fortnight previous, this paragraph had appeared in the paid columns of the Yuma Yucca: WANTED-Small, flat-bottomed sailboat. Centerboard type preferred. Hasty, care this office. Average Jones bought a ticket for Yuma.
The difference in the build of the two vessels, the one being shoal and centerboard, the other deep and heavily laden, made the race a zigzag. When the wind favored a little and the sheets could be "eased" then the shoal model would push ahead, but when the wind came more nearly ahead, and we had to plunge squarely into a head sea, then the deeper draught and heavier lading told to advantage.
It was beyond measure of more value to him to know, by what he had seen growing on it season after season, that for many a long year no waters had overflowed it. In the lake, close to his hut, lay moored his small centerboard lugger, and into this he presently threw his few appliances and supplies, spread sail, and skimmed away, with his pirogue towing after.
The sheet was paid off, and with dragging peavey-sticks instead of centerboard to hold the contrivance into the wind, the boat moved away on its tack across the lake. "Say good-by to your friend here!" Connick bellowed. "He says he thinks he'll go with us, strange country for to see."
"Why, what is the matter, Abe?" asked Kent, in real alarm. "Have you swallowed a centipede or has the cramp-colic griped you?" "No! I hain't swallowed no centerboard, nor have I the belly-ache blast your chucklehead," roared Abe, as he sprang to his feet, rushed to the brook, scooped up some water in his hands, and rinsed his mouth out energetically. "Well, what can it be, then?
The bottom of the lifeboat rose like a dome from the sea that beat and roared over and around it. The centerboard had floated up and projected at the top, and it was about this that Captain Davis' arms were clasped. Captain Eri shot the dory alongside, pulled in one oar, and the two boats fitted closely together.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking