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An asymmetric spinnaker is particularly effective on fast planing dinghies and ultra-light displacement boats as their speed generates an apparent wind on the bow allowing them to sail more directly downwind. An asymmetric spinnaker can also be a simpler sail for a cruiser or short-handed sailer than a symmetric one. [7]
It was selected as the 1992 "Boat of the Year" in the Racer/Cruiser category by Sailing World Magazine. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The concept behind the J/105 line is to produce boats that are fast, strong, fun and easy to sail shorthanded while racing in One Design fleets or while cruising with dodger raised, sails furled and swim ladder swung off the ...
Code 2 is a medium air running sail, used for apparent wind angles over 90 degrees. Code 3 is a medium air reaching sail, used for apparent wind angles near 90 degrees. Code 4 is a heavy air running sail, used in the heaviest winds normally expected. Code 5 is a heavy air reaching sail, used in the heaviest winds normally expected.
The Parasailor and Parasail are patented and trademarked variants of a spinnaker sail for yachts. They were designed for cruising couples and short-handed crews and are considered to be easy to handle and well tempered. [1] These sails make it possible to use one sail as spinnaker and Gennaker. These sails can be used between 70 and 180 degrees ...
Guy (red arrow), controlling the spinnaker pole. A guy (probably from Dutch gei, "brail") is a line attached to and intended to control the end of a spar on a sailboat. [1] On a modern sloop-rigged sailboat with a symmetric spinnaker, the spinnaker pole is the spar most commonly controlled by one or more guys.
The spinnaker pole is rigged to run from the base of the mast, [1] where there is a special fitting for attaching one end of the pole, out to windward over the side of the boat. There, one of the control lines of whichever sail it is to be used with is run through a fitting on the other end of the spinnaker pole. This allows for more precise ...
A Laser 2 flying its spinnaker, with the crew on the trapeze. The Laser 2 is a sailing dinghy, built predominantly of fibreglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller with an extension and a retractable daggerboard. It displaces 170 lb (77 kg).
A jib, left, compared to a roughly 110% genoa, right. The foretriangle is outlined in red. The term jib is the generic term for any of an assortment of headsails.The term genoa (or genny) refers to a type of jib that is larger than 100% of the foretriangle, which is the triangular area formed by the point at which the stay intersects the mast, and deck or bowsprit, and the line where the mast ...