如果选用了带负重的活动龙骨,那么它和固定龙骨一样提供水下的重量负荷,以使得船只能够保持直立(尽管它无法提供和固定龙骨一样大的重量)。
If the centerboard is weighted, then it also provides weight low in the water, like a keel, to help keep the boat upright (although not as much weight as a fixed keel can supply).
如果活动龙骨不带负重,例如许多小型帆船使用的玻璃纤维活动龙骨,那么水手们必须通过将他们自己的体重压在船只的逆风侧来保持船只直立。
If the centerboard is not weighted, like the fiberglass centerboards of many small sailboats, then sailors must keep the boat upright by positioning their own weight on the upwind side of the boat.
5月15日前后,新船的龙骨已经搁在造船所了;不久,船首材和船尾材也已用榫头分别接在龙骨的两头,几乎直立起来。
About the 15th of May the keel of the new vessel lay along the dockyard, and soon the stem and stern-post, mortised at each of its extremities, rose almost perpendicularly.
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