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Railing
Sailing fast with the daggerboard down, the extra lift created will tend to heel the board over onto its edge. This 'railing' can make life difficult for the inexperienced sailor (the simple answer is to raise the daggerboard!) but the technique is regularly used by long board racers, to sail much faster upwind as there is less of the board in contact with the water, it cuts much easier through chop and swell, and drag is
heavily reduced.
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