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1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Mainsails Genoas and Other Jibs Spinnakers Asymetrical Spinnakers Cruising Spinnaker (The UK Flasher) Dousing Sock (The UK Stasher) Staysails Drifter Blast Reacher Storm Sails Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 |
For most sailors asymmetric
spinnakers are specialty sails that fill in the performance gap between
genoas and spinnakers. On the growing new breed of light-weight sport
boats that carry retractable bowsprits, asymmetrics are the only chutes
carried. As the graph below shows, there is a gap between the apparent wind angle when a genoa is at the peak of its power and where a spinnaker is at the peak of its power. Asymmetrical
spinnakers fill this gap much better than a genoa designed for reaching
or a flat symmetrical spinnaker. Asymmetrical spinnakers have been in
use since the 1970s when UK Sailmakers's Owen Torrey invented the Flasher
the asymmetrical pole-less cruising spinnaker. For over a decade
they've been used on lightweight dinghies like Australia 18-foot skiffs
and racing multi-hulls. But it has only been recently that asymmetrical
spinna-kers have been legalized for racing on more mainstream boats. |
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