What shape is a spinnaker sail
Spanker (sail) briefly used commercially for a branded type of spinnaker. Spanker (sail) A spanker is either of two kinds of sail. On a square rigged ship, the spanker is a gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast. Almost all square rigs with more than one mast have one or two spankers, which evolved from the driver sail. Some also carry a triangular topsail above the uppermost or only spanker, between the gaff and the mast, called the gaff sail. A spanker in this situation is often 'soft footed' in that it has no boom to which it
Spinnaker controlled by lines known as a sheet and a guy running from the lower two corners of the sail. The windward line, or guy, is attached to the corner called the tack of the sail, and is stabilized by a spinnaker pole. The leeward (downwind) line is called the sheet. It attaches to the clew of the spinnaker and is used to control the shape of the sail. The spinnaker pole must be moved in each gybe, and is quite difficult for beginners to use. However, it can be sailed in all downwind wind directions. Symmetric spinnakers when sailing across