How To Use Spinnaker In A Sentence
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Setting a spinnaker involves keeping the boat steady with the wind behind while the spinnaker sail is raised.
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First, at corner exits, it pulls like hell, like it has deployed some magical torque spinnaker.
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We can carry the spinnaker in combination with the mizzen staysail or we can carry either alone.
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A larger headsail and cruising spinnaker are nice to have for beam reaching and running in light air but many owners find the mainsail and 120% jib work just fine.
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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.
Chapter 10
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She inhaled a lungful of cold, salty air, and it sped her like a spinnaker toward the house.
ROUGH JUSTICE
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The 2000 race was another typical adventure, with spinnakers set for the first eight hours until the wind moved to the south-west and increased to gale force during the next two days.
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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.
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Use balloon ripstop on a 110-degree narrow Delta steerable kite, and you will soon discover why the spinnaker nylon is best.
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Show your support and love of boating by choosing the card that depicts an exhilarating ride on a powerboat or the card that features a sailboat with spinnaker flying.
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A good quality kite made from treated ripstop spinnaker cloth and fibreglass spars starts at about $10.
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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.
Bunches of Knuckles
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When the breeze picked up to 35 kts we dropped the spinnaker, gybed, set the headsail and started heading back inshore to catch the cold front moving in from the south-west.
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Whenever her dad needs a new spinnaker or satellite navigation system, another cottage or parcel of land gets sold.
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Seeing two runners limbering up on the deck of a yacht while you race spinnaker is quite fun.
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But the crews are sailing downwind with the spinnaker up.
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As a spinnaker, often used in yacht racing, cannot be fitted to the ultra-streamlined trimaran, speed had to be sacrificed.
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For running in high seas we put a large square sail forward, tripping the yard along the foremast, much like a spinnaker boom.
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While some of the racing fleet were under spinnaker heading west, ‘Loose Cannon’ had already rounded the leeward mark and was heading back east.
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Mainsails, genoas, working jibs and staysails, spinnakers, storm jibs, and trisails are all discussed in depth.
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When the breeze picked up to 35 kts we dropped the spinnaker, gybed, set the headsail and started heading back inshore to catch the cold front moving in from the south-west.
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Night Train had not yet set its spinnaker when the two people were spotted in the water, 150 yards away.
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The trainees got to sail the boats with time spent as crew, helm, flying the spinnaker, and some ‘lucky’ few even got to see a capsize up close.
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A larger headsail and cruising spinnaker are nice to have for beam reaching and running in light air but many owners find the mainsail and 120% jib work just fine.
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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.
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A good quality kite made from treated ripstop spinnaker cloth and fibreglass spars starts at about $10.
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Both the 470s and the 49ers also have an additional sail for downwind, called a spinnaker.
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Despite a dry night Warwick has been abandoned as part of the track is still waterlogged which is a shame as Blue Spinnaker would surely have followed up his recent Doncaster win in the middle-distance handicap.
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For the final time, the crew took the spinnaker down and raised the headsail - without a hitch.
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The "trades" were blowing very moderately as it happened, and the weather was as fine as heart could wish, with a nearly full moon into the bargain, so we were able to carry not only a jib-headed topsail, but also our spinnaker at the bowsprit-end; and under this canvas the little beauty made uncommonly short miles of it, tripping along like a rustic belle going to her first ball.
For Treasure Bound
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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.
True Spirit
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During the race, Tom Droescher, working as the spinnaker trimmer, was swept overboard during a jibe and landed on his back in the 45-degree waters of Puget Sound.
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It's likely to be a windy day across Thurles according to the forecast and that's precisely the kind of day that fills blue spinnakers.
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But the crews are sailing downwind with the spinnaker up.
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A sail blows off the foredeck and a spinnaker drum jams so they can't jibe on the downwind leg.
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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.
Sailing in the Eye of the Wind
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Regarding the "spinnaker" shape of the sail -- on another forum, someone noted that it looks exactly like a woman's thong underwear!
Wind Dam
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Its current stakeholders are a group of private equity firms, led by Ashmore Investment and Spinnaker Capital.
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During the race, Tom Droescher, working as the spinnaker trimmer, was swept overboard during a jibe and landed on his back in the 45-degree waters of Puget Sound.
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A sail blows off the foredeck and a spinnaker drum jams so they can't jibe on the downwind leg.
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The other crew with a spinnaker up momentarily lost control of the sail.
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A good quality kite made from treated ripstop spinnaker cloth and fibreglass spars starts at about $10.
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Martin uses balloon fabric, as it does not crease as easily as spinnaker ripstop.
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On racing days, on many if not most courses, every competing yacht needed to raise its spinnaker directly under my balcony.
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Now, the race starts so that we're going down wind which means those big colorful sails called a spinnaker are out in front.
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A sail blows off the foredeck and a spinnaker drum jams so they can't jibe on the downwind leg.
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Seeing two runners limbering up on the deck of a yacht while you race spinnaker is quite fun.
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The large panniers at the back held the main sail and the spinnaker.
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This was doubtless the first of the south-east trade-winds; for by midnight it had so far freshened that, for the sake of our spars, it became necessary to take in our spinnaker and balloon-topsail, and to substitute for them the working jib and our jib-headed topsail.
For Treasure Bound
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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.
Bunches of Knuckles
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A weekend sailor, Gehry wondered how to design the space between the mast and a spinnaker blown full by the wind, and he shows us just how with this brilliant installation: Gehry sculpts.
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On the spinnaker reach to Rayrigg Fiscal Folly pulled ahead, extending its lead in the blustery, fluctuating wind on the leg up to Swan's Nest.
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Besides some broken sails, they suffered a huge wipe out, breaking a rudder, daggerboard and bowsprit, and shredding their spinnaker in the process.
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On the hotel steps, I met Yvette with a spinnaker of blue silk billowing out behind her.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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As the breeze began to slacken boats took different tacks to fill their spinnakers, and Fever held on to first place for a well-deserved first win.
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IT'S one of those dynamically bright mornings when Sydney is at its most Olympian, with the sky rippling like the spinnakers on the yachts dashing across the harbour.
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Setting a spinnaker involves keeping the boat steady with the wind behind while the spinnaker sail is raised.
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Almost everything on board, from spinnaker poles to steering wheels, is custom-made.
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Show your support and love of boating by choosing the card that depicts an exhilarating ride on a powerboat or the card that features a sailboat with spinnaker flying.
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One nice thing about the high foretriangle is that gybing under spinnaker in heavy air does not demand flawless runner work to keep the mast in the boat.
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Sails can be divided into four main categories: mains (and mizzens), foresails (what we have been calling jibs), staysails, and spinnakers.
Sailing Fundamentals
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The start was really spectacular, with the cruisers and three dinghies setting spinnakers as all 53 boats broad-reached toward the eastern end of Spike, a fast passage with the last of the flood.
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When they raised the spinnaker as we rounded the windward marka complicated maneuverit was like watching major leaguers turn a flawless double play.
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Women sailors ranging in age from their 20s to grandmothers brushed up or learned new skills in on-the-water sessions in sail trim, spinnakers, crew-overboard drills and life raft deployment.
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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.
Bunches of Knuckles
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But from a distance, say on a charter boat coming from Phuket, the whitened cliffs catch the sun and shine like spinnakers in a yachting regatta, locked side by side in a never-moving race.
