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• n  a large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind

• Incredibly, if a crewman had not set the wrong spinnaker on the last leg of the last race of the final trials, it might very well have been Vim instead of Briggs Cunningham's .
• Her yellow spinnaker balloons uncertainly.
• Endeavour's crew, which had functioned ably since the first race, bungled an attempt to set a spinnaker, let Rainbow get away first as usual.

News & Articles

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• Spinnaker Support Shows Support for Financials 2013 Conference by Participating in Amsterdam Event
  Educating the SAP marketplace about their third-party maintenance and co-sourcingSM services, Spinnaker Support is excited about the traction gained at the conference DENVER and LONDON – Spinnaker Support, ...
  June 18, 2013 - Accesswire via Yahoo! Finance
• New 4-H Marine Research Vessel Sets Sail for Camp
  CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Sunday, Oregon 4-H launched a new marine research vessel, Ocean Watch, which set sail from San Francisco Bay, heading north to Newport, Oregon. The vessel, complete with a new 69-foot spinnaker featuring the 4-H emblem and web address, will serve as a marine research platform for the 2013 Ocean Watch 4-H Marine Ambassadors Camp hosted ...
  June 18, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Richard Branson in AFP
  Branson said: "We were doing very good until recently when we had a massive wave hit us from behind. It literally took one of our life craft with it. The storm has also taken out the spinnaker and ripped the main sail so we'll have to decide whether...
• Ben Ainslie in World Match Racing Tour
  Ainslie commented on his equipment malfunctions today, "We had a couple of problems with the boat, the jib halyard wasn't holding upwind and then we had an issue with the spinnaker at the bottom mark in the match against Ian which was a bit to do...