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    A gennaker is a sail that was developed around 1990. Used when sailing downwind, it is a cross between a genoa and a spinnaker. It is not symmetric like...
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    name of North Sails, the gennaker started as a cruising sail based on the Code 0 spinnakers used on racing boats. Gennakers and similar code 0 variants...
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  • Defender Semifinals, when Australia IV introduced a new sail they called the 'gennaker', an enormous asymmetrical hybrid that pulled Australia IV even with the...
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    designed both for single-handed racing (mainsail + gennaker) and dual-crew sailing (jib + mainsail + gennaker). In both configurations, this boat is eligible...
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    The clew (lower rear corner) of the gennaker sail of an AC45 class racing catamaran, made of Cuben Fiber with Nylon strips...
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    mylar racing mainsail and includes the jib and gennaker. The design allows both the jib and gennaker to be used at the same time for power reaching....
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    newer high-performance fractional rig sailboats, fly the spinnaker or the gennaker from the masthead. On many modern skiffs and race dinghies, the jib is...
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  • asymmetric rig including a furling jib, reefing mainsail and single line gennaker hoist system. A high boom provides plenty of headroom whilst the self-draining...
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  • Operation Gennaker, Final Report Pg. 4 Operation Gennaker, Final Report Pg. 41 Operation Gennaker, Final Report Pg. 41–42 Operation Gennaker, Final Report...
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    symmetric spinnaker of the Laser 2 by a larger asymmetric spinnaker (gennaker). The gennaker is chute-launched and retrieved using a single halyard line, and...
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