KEEL V. CENTREBOARD YACHTS.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —I read "Fair Match's" lttter in the other night's issue, and am pleased he agrees with mc that keel and centreboard yachts should not be allowed to compete in the same race. "Fair Match" did not quite catch niy meaning in my former letter, when l'said that centreboard yachts can lift their plates and skim over the water. 1 am aware that on a wind the plate has to be kept down, as without her plate being down a centreboard boat would drift to leeward, the plate being the only thing that holds her to windward; but before the wind, or leading (as -was the case last JEtegati* J>ay with the tide running out on the second round), the centreboard boat can lift h<?r plate, and can skim over the water; in addition to this, the centreboard, which in most cases is a dagger-shaped one, is not so much to force through the water as the lead keel.—l am, etc., \ MAUGO POLO.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 34, 9 February 1905, Page 2
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170KEEL V. CENTREBOARD YACHTS. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 34, 9 February 1905, Page 2
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