Emirates Spinnaker Tower five years, repainting and rebranding the tower in the sponsor's choice of colours and logos and new signage to be installed "no later than July 17" ahead of the 2015 America's Cup World Series. Dubai-based airline Emirates was reported to be the favoured sponsor, with the tower to be renamed as the Emirates Spinnaker Tower. On 5 June 2015, the city council confirmed that Emirates had been secured as the sponsor. Councillor Luke Stubbs said: "It's clearly a very good deal for the city and shows the benefit that Portsmouth is deriving from the America’s Cup... This also associates Portsmouth
Spinnaker accepted term spinnaker. Gordon was widely known in the yachting world of the time as 'Spinnaker Gordon.' It has been pointed out, however, that the skippers of Thames sailing barges also used the term "spinnaker" for their jib staysails. Unlike the other, tanned sails of these boats, the "spinnakers" were usually of white color. It has thus been suggested that the term could be "connected with the obsolete word "spoon", meaning to "run" before the wind (cf. "spindrift")." Early usage of the verb "to spoon" can be traced back to the 16th century; the change from "spoon" to "spin" in