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The sleeves (three in all) were made of flexible, impervious, rip-stop nylon, 25 g m-2, a light closely-woven cloth which is used forspinnakersails on small boats.
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Like a balloon, a sail offers no resistance unless it is already under tension (think of aspinnaker); thus it must also be modelled by nonlinear equations.
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The snap shackle failed causing thespinnakerto drop into the sea.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thespinnakeris often a colourful sail and can be either symmetrical or asymmetrical.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is often used as a training boat due to its simplicity but also has the option of a symmetricalspinnaker.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A class which emphasizes the qualities of the sailor, whose sailrobe would include aspinnaker, and was adapted to the expected light air conditions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The thymic sail sign orspinnaker-sail sign is due to elevation of the thymic lobes in the setting of pneumomediastinum.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Shortly thereafter a snap shackle failed causing thespinnakerto drop into the sea.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The 470 is equipped withspinnakerand trapeze, making teamwork necessary to sail it well.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Boats with conventional slot sails were still; one with aspinnakerwas able to make reasonable headway.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The boat is sailed by 2 people both on trapeze and has a main, jib andspinnaker.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is a twin trapeze boat and the jib is self-tacking and thespinnakeris designed with low loads on the sheets.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sail plan consisted of a 115.00 sq. ft. mainsail, 113.10 sq. ft. jib and 339.00 sq. ft.spinnaker.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This would have been useful for aspinnakerchute, but class regulations of the time did not allow that.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As with the large mainsails, spinnakers are also generally much larger for a given hull size than had previously been used.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There are also soft single skin kites designed to be used on sailing ships as a free flyingspinnakersubstitute.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This hazard is especially dangerous for a multihull that is using aspinnakerin high winds and large seas.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Mirror class rules permit the use of aspinnaker.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Asymmetric spinnakers operate more like a jib, generating lift from the side, rather than the top like a symmetricspinnaker.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sock remains bundled up at the head of the sail while thespinnakeris deployed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.