Emirates Spinnaker Tower It also features on ITV News. In June 2009, the tower's operators succeeded in gaining permission for a freefall ride to be attached. As of 2015 this remains only a plan. In 2006, the tower won the RICS Project of the Year award and the RICS Regeneration award. In May 2015, as part of a wider effort to "generate additional revenue by using the advertising potential of council-owned land and other assets", Portsmouth City Council proposed selling the tower's naming rights to a commercial sponsor. The proposed sponsorship deal would include the naming rights for the tower for at least
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