What is a Parasailor sail?

PARASAILOR. The Parasailor is a symmetrical spinnaker that is deployed from a snuffer but with one unique feature— a wing that flies horizontally in front of the sail. This wing looks just like the high performance parachutes you might see ridden into football game halftime shows.

What’s the difference between a spinnaker and a gennaker?

In short, a gennaker has a genoa’s form (asymmetric, head and tack pinned, sheets tied to the clew) with the wide girth of a spinnaker. The gennaker is an all-purpose downwind sail, while spinnakers are built for specific downwind apparent wind angles.

What is a spinnaker sail with a parasail foil in it?

The Parasailor and Parasail are patented and trademarked variants of a spinnaker sail for yachts. This acts like a soft batten, holding the sail out and actively re-opening the collapsed leech. The wing generates lift that raises the bow of the boat, and also ensures that there is no loss of propulsion.

What is the purpose of a gennaker?

The gennaker is a specialty sail primarily used on racing boats to bridge the performance gap between a genoa and a spinnaker. It is sometimes the only downwind sail on board because it is easier to use and less expensive than a spinnaker. Due to its geometry, the sail is less prone to collapsing than a spinnaker.

What is an asymmetrical spinnaker?

What is an Asymmetric Spinnaker? Asymmetric spinnakers are more triangular in shape than a symmetric spinnaker and have three distinct corners: head, clew, and tack. The head attaches to the halyard. The tack fastens to a tackline, which is attached to the forward end of a fixed pole or sprit at deck level.

How do you use a gennaker?

Attach the gennaker halyard to the head of the sail; 3. Run the dowsing line through the retrieval points on the sail; 4. Attach the gennaker sheets to the clew of the sail; 5. Run the sheets through the gennaker blocks and tie them off.

What’s the difference between a genoa and a job?

Colloquially the term is sometimes used interchangeably with jib. A working jib is no larger than the 100\% foretriangle. A genoa is larger, with the leech going past the mast and overlapping the mainsail. Working jibs are also defined by the same measure, typically 100\% or less of the foretriangle.

How do you rig a gennaker sail?

To rig the gennaker, you should: 1. Attach the tack of the gennaker to the bowsprit; 2. Attach the gennaker halyard to the head of the sail; 3. Run the dowsing line through the retrieval points on the sail; 4.