gennaker

A gennaker sail can be added, but is not legal for racing.

The design allows both the jib and gennaker to be used at the same time for power reaching.

A furling gennaker mounted on a bowsprit is available as an option.

A furling gennaker and asymmetrical spinnaker are available as options.

This can be overcome with cruising spinnaker and gennaker on the junk rig.

These sails make it possible to use one sail as spinnaker and gennaker while providing improved performance.

Spinnakers perform much better when running because the main sail blocks the wind of gennaker above 135-150 degrees.

Cayard's crew set a gennaker, rather than a conventional spinnaker, to boost its speed.

The Kiwis performed a perfect gennaker set while the Italians struggled.

It's his job to pull a jib or a gennaker through the forward hatch, then stretch it out below deck for packing.

The International 14 remains a popular racing class, having acquired racks (for trapezing crews) and a gennaker since its original design.

Kanza blew out a gennaker in the sixth leg, a mistake that cost the Koch team 23 seconds by the next mark.

With a price tag of $20,000 for a single gennaker, the sail preferred for reaching conditions, the cost saving could be substantial.

A gennaker sail is available.

In lighter winds, many crews make use of the jibing gennaker pole when sailing downwind.

The traditional spinnaker is replaced with a gennaker that is set on an extensible bowsprit.

Trapeze integration is very common, all the way to owners extending the centerline support beam forward into a gennaker boom.

Using a bowsprit allows the size of the gennaker to be a much larger sail than would be possible with a spinnaker.

He called for a spinnaker, a rounder, fuller sail than the flatter gennaker that America hoisted.

Joyon runs up on deck to slacken the gennaker, but he realizes he cannot do anything."

Downwind, however is where the boat excels due to its asymmetric spinnaker (aka gennaker).

The gennaker is a specialty sail primarily used on racing boats to bridge the performance gap between a genoa and a spinnaker.

A different gennaker is used for varying ranges of wind strength, and as cup programs develop, new sail designs are part of a continuing technology evolution.

The gennaker has been around for several decades now, and as the name suggests, it is a hybrid between a genoa and an asymmetrical spinnaker.

The gennaker is rigged like a spinnaker but the tack is fastened to the hull or to a bowsprit.