All along I have been using a canoe leeboard that I borrowed from Chris. I finally got around to carving a larger board, more suited to the sail area of the XCR. I also needed to beef up the bracket where the leeboard mounts to the leeboard thwart. The wooden portion of the bracket shattered while I was sailing in heavy wind on Lake Powell. For quite a while I held it all together with a big C-Clamp, but I finally got around to having a stronger bracket fabricated from 1/4-inch aluminum plate.
The leeboard is carved to a NACA 009 symmetrical airfoil shape using a belt sander and cardboard template.
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