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What is a gennaker?

What is a gennaker? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) A sail having characteristics of a genoa and a spinnaker.
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Catamarans don't usually come with spar reefing systems so conventional slab reefing is used for the mainsail with a roller furling Genoa forward and an optional gennaker.
He even repaired a chafed gennaker halyard as he hung from it.
I rolled the gennaker, trimmed in the mainsail, eased off the mast rotator and runners and spun the boat into the wind.
One of my business partners in our company Gennaker was doing some work with Joe on some rights stuff.
The pennant is eased and hardened just like a foresheet to tension or harden the luff of the gennaker.

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