A spinnaker is a sail designed specifically for sailing off the wind on courses between a reach (wind at 90° to the course) to downwind (course in the...
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The Spinnaker Tower is a 170-metre (560 ft) landmark observation tower in Portsmouth, England. It is the centrepiece of the redevelopment of Portsmouth...
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SpiNNaker (spiking neural network architecture) is a massively parallel, manycore supercomputer architecture designed by the Advanced Processor Technologies...
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Spinnaker is a free and open-source continuous delivery software platform originally developed by Netflix and extended by Google. It is designed to work...
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Look up spinnaker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A spinnaker is a type of sail. Spinnaker can also refer to: Spinnaker (software), an open-source...
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An asymmetrical spinnaker is a sail used when sailing between about 90 and 165 degrees from the angle of the wind. Also known as an "asym", "aspin", or...
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spinnaker pole is a spar used in sailboats (both dinghies and yachts) to help support and control a variety of headsails, particularly the spinnaker....
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The Spinnaker is the official student magazine, 24/7 website, radio station, and TV station of the University of North Florida (UNF). The first issue...
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Spinnaker Software Corporation was a software company founded in 1982 known primarily for its line of non-curriculum based educational software, which...
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Sheet (sailing) (redirect from Spinnaker sheet)
be in use at one time. The spinnaker sheet attaches to the clew(s) of the spinnaker, if carried. A symmetrical spinnaker has two sheets, an "active"...
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