wishbone boom

The sailor used the hook to attach to lines attached to each of the wishbone booms.

"It's not clear that Newman would have ever come up with the idea of a wishbone boom or other technical refinements.

Drake finished the design by using an earlier but for them failed invention of East Coast racing sail, and added a wishbone boom.

The wishbone boom on sailing craft is most commonly seen on windsurfing boards (sailboards).

The original boats were built with an unstayed, two-piece aluminum mast and wishbone boom.

It did not incorporate the curved wishbone booms of the modern windsurfer, but rather a "straight boom" that became curved in use.

Hinterhoeller is showing its new 33-foot Nonsuch, a yacht with a free-standing mast and wishbone boom.

Booms are commonly made from aluminum, or carbon fibre, and are often referred to as a wishbone boom due to their symmetrical shape.

There is a single sail on each mast with wishbone booms - much like the systems used in windsurfing - which makes the rig virtually self-tending.

The wishbone boom additionally is an attachment point for lazy jack lines to catch the sail when it is dropped for furling or reefing.

Ellis designed a Ljungstrom-type rig modified with a wishbone boom, on a 30 foot modern hull with a plumb bow, fin keel and balanced rudder.

The wishbone boom on larger sailing craft is a double-sided boom set at an angle to the mast and typically supported by line stays from the leading edge of the mast to each side of the boom.

The sailing plan has been designed by Jan Młynarczyk and consists of two glued spruce masts - 19,5 m main mast with wishbone boom and 17,5 bezan mast, and five sails with total area of 160 m2 .