Centerboarder

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 …”

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.

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.