The bow of the German schooner SS Amphitrite, showing trailboards running from the billethead to the hawsepipe

The trailboards are a pair of boards that may be found at the bow of certain sailing vessels, where they run from the figurehead or billethead back to or towards the hawsepipe. They are in the main decorative, though they often bear the name of the ship; they vary in decoration styles.

References

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  • "Terminology from the Age of Sail: Trailboard". The Art of the Age of Sail.
  • "Modelling the USS Constitution: Outer Hull Details".


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Bayfield 25

fiberglass hull has a clipper bow with a bowsprit, wooden decorative trailboards on the bow, a keel-mounted rudder and a long shoal keel. Steering is

Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z)

incoming from outgoing vessels. Sometimes improperly called sea lanes. trailboard A decorative board at the bow of a vessel, sometimes bearing the vessel's

Figurehead (object)

and ornate clothing, which would often be depicted on a figurehead’s trailboards to be more cost effective, as well as the amount of labour involved.

Skipjack (boat)

features a curving longhead under the bowsprit, with carved and painted trailboards. A small figurehead is common. A typical skipjack is 40 to 50 feet in

Hellyer & Sons

to £100 (approx. £10,779 today) after the royal arms intended for the trailboards were declared 'not required' by the Surveyor of the Navy. HMS Orestes

Bayfield 36

rig, with anodized aluminum spars, a clipper bow with a bowsprit and trailboards, a raised counter transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel

Bayfield Boat Yard

traditional sailing ship design features such as long keels, clipper bows, trailboards and bowsprits, all rendered in modern materials. The first Ted Gozzard

USS Hartford (1858)

figurehead is displayed in the Connecticut State Capitol Her billethead, trailboards and other items are on display at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News