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    A daggerboard is a retractable centreboard used by various sailing craft. While other types of centreboard may pivot to retract, a daggerboard slides in...
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    centerboard or daggerboard keel, depending on the model, with flooding water ballast. The ballast is drained for road transport. MacGregor 26D Daggerboard-equipped...
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    the secondary purpose of being a counterweight, and centreboards and daggerboards, which are of lighter weight, do not have the secondary purpose of being...
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    front of a bulkhead, which partitions the boat nearly in half, is the daggerboard case. Right behind it on the centerline of the hull floor are attached...
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    hydrofoils only to assist performance.[clarification needed] Just as daggerboards and rudders are foils that enhance the control of a boat, assisting hydrofoils...
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    may refer to either a wooden or a metal pivoting retractable foil. A daggerboard is similar but slides vertically rather than pivoting. The analog in...
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    boats by using five essential controls: The sails The foils (i.e. the daggerboard or centreboard and rudder and sometimes lifting foils as found on the...
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    normally be righted by standing or pulling down on the centreboard, daggerboard (or bilgeboard in a scow) to lift the mast clear of the water. Depending...
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    the larger AC72s used in the 2013 America's Cup, AC50s used L-shaped daggerboard stabilizers as well as T-shaped rudder elevators that were able to generate...
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    designing a multihull is similar to designing an aircraft. A centreboard or daggerboard is retractable lightweight keel which can be pulled up in shallow water...
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