spinnaker
IPA: spˈɪnʌkɝ
noun
- (nautical) A sail supplemental to the mainsail, especially a triangular one, used on yachts for running before the wind.
verb
- (nautical) To sail using a spinnaker
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Examples of "spinnaker" in Sentences
- Rigging the symmetric spinnaker.
- Rigging the asymmetric spinnaker.
- The most common extra is the spinnaker.
- For a spinnaker, the corner is the tack.
- It is a sloop rigged scow with a spinnaker.
- A spinnaker may be set for flying downwind.
- Fast and exciting with trapeze and spinnaker 3.
- For the spinnaker it has a retractable bowsprit.
- For a spinnaker, the line is the guy, and the corner is the tack.
- A large spinnaker was carried on a spinnaker boom when running down wind.
- First, at corner exits, it pulls like hell, like it has deployed some magical torque spinnaker.
- Now, the race starts so that we're going down wind which means those big colorful sails called a spinnaker are out in front.
- Regarding the "spinnaker" shape of the sail -- on another forum, someone noted that it looks exactly like a woman's thong underwear!
- Then she made him uncomfortable by hitting him several times in different parts of the body with a long spar which she called the spinnaker boom.
- There was that matter of the deck-calking, the bronze rudder-irons, the overhauling of the engine, the new spinnaker boom, the new davits, and the repairs to the whale-boat.
- On Artemis Ocean Racing, Ms. Caffari instructs her crew to hoist the spinnaker, but a run of bad luck follows and two spinnakers are ripped, allowing their competitors to race past as they sail to the finish line.
- "Racing school" is for more advanced sailors who are looking to become proficient at race strategy, tactics and maneuvers "spinnaker" gives individuals or teams instruction and practice with this element of sailing.
- This afternoon I kept busy on deck working out the easiest way to pole the headsail (using the spinnaker pole to hold the headsail right out) to make sailing downwind (with the wind right behind us) more comfortable.
- It was in spinnaker, up mizzen, all sheets by the wind, and we were moving slowly ahead, heaving the lead and straining our eyes for the fixed red light on the ruined fort that would give us our bearings to anchorage.
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