Talk:Asymmetrical spinnaker
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[edit]I would suggest there is no point in separate section but all of this could be added to the main spinnaker section. its fairly misleading as it stands and failed to mention the commonest asymmetric spinnaker which is the cruising shute on many yachts — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.208.120 (talk) 21:20, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
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Since the 1960s ... ... the J/Boats J/105. Needs polishing. 1. which bar?, when? 2. what boats are 18s? 3.Not sure if that link to andrew buckland is correct 4. The Julian Bethwaite mentioned was born in 1957. I hope he stood his round.
Since the 1960s many faster sailing craft, starting with catamaran classes, had discovered that it is faster to sail downwind on a series of broad reaches with efficient airflow across the sail rather than directly downwind with the sails stalled. This technique had developed to the extent that in bar conversation at the end of one season Andrew Buckland observed that the 18s had sailed all season without pulling the spinnaker pole back from the forestay and that all the systems could be simplified by eliminating the pole and setting the spinnaker from a fixed (but often retractable) bowsprit. The concept quickly evolved to a sail with a loose luff much more like a conventional spinnaker than the old jib style asymmetric sails. Julian Bethwaite was the first to rig and sail a boat with one the next season, followed shortly by Andrew Buckland. The first modern offshore sailboats to incorporate a retractable bow sprit and an asymmetric spinnaker was the J/Boats J/105.[6]