stackyFACTSWhen the wind is directly behind a yacht, standard flat sails are surprisingly inefficient. Enter the spinnaker: a gigantic, colorful, wildly uncontrollable parachute-like sail that entirely swallows the wind and yanks the vessel aggressively forward.
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