Her sternboard had a legend, which at first he couldn't see.

That was the only way I could get close enough to read the sternboard."

"Because I flew close enough to read her sternboard.

A sail backed further aft may make a boat begin to "sternboard" or make way backwards.

'According to Mr Kenton we must have made one great sternboard since noon yesterday.

But to think of a sternboard at all, far more to think of profiting by one, were foreign to the schooner-sailor's mind.

A small cabin cruiser with Double-Six freshly painted on the sternboard chugged across the lake at a cautious speed.

For the second time Aitken backed the maintopsail for another sternboard so that the frigate's bow paid off and the larboard broadside would bear.

This terminated in her Captain, Varyl Begg, carrying out a sternboard down the Neva against a beam gale after her hastily Soviet-laid sternbuoy had dragged.

And then the letters on her sternboard came into focus: REINE DE LA MER-LISBOA.

Now the maintopsail was backed and theCalypso began making a sternboard so that her bow swung through 180 degrees and as she went slowly astern, passing theMagpie, she fired her starboard broadside.

It was almost dark by the time theCalypso's topsails filled aback and she did a long sternboard out of Collioure, followed by thePassePartout which could easily wear round and pass the frigate on her way to the open sea.