spinnaker pole

Tell me, did you used to have a spinnaker pole?"

The spinnaker pole was now serving as a replacement boom.

Lines that control the spinnaker pole are called guys.

It can be used with a spinnaker pole but it is not necessary.

Guys are used to control the ends of other spars such as spinnaker poles.

The spinnaker poles alone are 33 feet long.

There are two primary types of guys used to control a spinnaker pole:

The spinnaker pole must be moved in each gybe, and is quite difficult for beginners to use.

"Our spinnaker pole almost went over the side and almost broke going upwind one time," he said.

A foreguy may also be used to control the height of the spinnaker pole.

In Race 5, its spinnaker pole broke.

The waterlogged sail strained the spinnaker pole, which snapped.

On the third leg, New Zealand broke a spinnaker pole during a manoeuvre.

First, the windward corner is detached from the spinnaker pole and the guy is released.

A topping lift may also refer to a line on the front of the mast used to rig the spinnaker pole.

There was one more thing - the spinnaker pole - and nearing mark four of this do-or-die race, that broke, too.

The team lost an $8,000 spinnaker pole overboard on the way to England,and blew out five sails.

The preventer runs through a parrot beak attached to the end of a spinnaker pole.

New Zealand changed its procedure today, attaching the bowsprit directly to the spinnaker pole, instead of to the sail itself.

Jibing with the asymmetric is much less complex than the symmetric, due to the lack of the spinnaker pole.

In the eighth leg, a spinnaker pole knocked Fantini in the head.

Symmetric spinnakers have the windward clew secured to a spinnaker pole.

In the downwind leg, the end fitting - or jaw - on Black Magic's spinnaker pole broke.

The crew on Mighty Mary found that out today when its 27-foot spinnaker pole broke in half like a bent matchstick.

A spinnaker pole broke.