spinnaker 的定义
Nautical.
- a large, usually triangular sail carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind or when the wind is abaft the beam.
更多spinnaker例句
- The breeze kept up, and the spinnaker was carried on 'Britannia' until Cape Barfleur lights were made out right ahead.
- A spinnaker is a very handy sail, and preferable to a squaresail in light weather.
- Spinnaker: A modern adaptation of a jib-shaped sail, often seen set from the top masthead and boomed out from the mast.
- At the end of half an hour, while we were preparing to set the spinnaker, with a few sickly gasps the wind would die away.
- But that little craft, her big spinnaker filled by the southeast trade, was making a good race of it.