centerboarder

English

Etymology

From centerboard +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛntɚˌbɔɹdɚ/

Noun

centerboarder (plural centerboarders)

1. A boat equipped with a centerboard.
   • 1892 December 22, “Yacht News Notes”, in Forrest and Stream, VOLUME XXXIX JULY 1892-DECEMBER 1892, NEW YORK: FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY, page 545:

     J. Bordee, Jr. has designed a 21 ft. centerboarder which the Globe describes as follows: “The board will be a centerboard of moderate beam and light draft, but with a heavily weighted board and …”

   • 1960 January, K Jack Bauer, “The Great Ocean Race”, in The Skipper, volume xx, number 1, page 23:

     Many people, however, thought that the centerboarder could not fight the midwinter storms even---if she had beaten Henrietta to Cape May and back in a gale---and made her the underdog to trail at Cowes.

   • 2024, Daniel F. Harrison, Michigan's Venice: The Transformation of the St. Clair Maritime Landscape, 1640–2000, Wayne State University Press, page 106:

     By the same token, a "centerboarder" could easily clear the bars at the mouth of either the North or South Channel of the St. Clair Flats.