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Scientific American, Vol. 14, No. 36 (May 1859) (1859)

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uely to the central plane ofthe vessel. To provide for securing the cen-ter-board either while set directly fore-and-aft or obliquely thereto, there is secured to the end of box C a stationary plate, F, pro-vided with three notches, d, in either of whichthe lever E can be placed, altering the… … enabled to sail closer on a wind, and hence bemuch more under control and enabled to bekept from a lee shore. The oblique directionof D must be changed every time the vesselis in stays. As an auxiliary to D, the cut-water, G, is made to project from the vesseland to be movable like a rudder, that…

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