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An early form ofgennakerwas the gollywhomper, used briefly in the 1870s.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A furlinggennakeris available as an option.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Trapeze integration is very common, all the way to owners extending the centerline support beam forward into agennakerboom.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thegennakeris a specialty sail primarily used on racing boats to bridge the performance gap between a genoa and a spinnaker.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thegennakeris chute-launched and retrieved using a single halyard line, and is set on a retractable bowsprit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Agennakersail can be added, but is not legal for racing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Using a bowsprit allows the size of thegennakerto be a much larger sail than would be possible with a spinnaker.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thegennakeris rigged like a spinnaker but the tack is fastened to the hull or to a bowsprit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This can be overcome with cruising spinnaker andgennakeron the junk rig.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A furlinggennakermounted on a bowsprit is available as an option.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Jibs and genoas, for example, are generally suitable for furling, as they are relatively flat, while agennaker, with its larger degree of camber, is probably not suitable for furling.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is not symmetric like a true spinnaker but is asymmetric like a genoa, but thegennakeris not attached to the forestay like a jib or genoa.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For downwind sailing, a larger jib is more desirable but in the case of many high-performance fractional rig sailboats, the smaller jib is substituted by a spinnaker orgennaker.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Using a bowsprit allows the size of thegennakerto be a much larger sail than would be possible with a symmetrical spinnaker.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.