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tre-board) offers the greatest lat- III Sports and Games eral resistance to the water. A centre-board boat isalso handier and quicker in stays than an open boatprovided with a false keeL The boat provided with a false keel is unsuitablefor an open coast where beaching is frequently nec-essary, or… … boat is drawn up with little labor, and is not so likelyto strain herself when taking the ground in a surf.The beach boat should be providedwith BiLGE PIECES(Fig. 39). These keels, running along a great por-tion of the bilge on either side, should be of hardwood, and be so placed that they take all…
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