spanker in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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On a square rigged ship, the spanker is a gaff rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast.
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In this method of measuring bowsprit including jibboom and out-board part of spanker boom if any have both no effect on the ship's length.
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The sculling oars and spanker probably now belong in a museum.
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As to your other point about middle-class spankers, well, your bias is showing.
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On a square-rigged sailing ship, the spanker is a gaff rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast.
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Almost all square rigs with more than one mast have one or two spankers, which evolved from the driver sail.
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First-time spankers and whippers often get carried away.
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A typical koff had one and a half masts with a gaff rigged main sail and spanker and one or two square sails in the main top.
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I am 65, and know too little of spankers.
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Behind the main sail there is a small fore-and-aft sail called the spanker or boom mainsail (it is somewhat similar to the main sail of a schooner).
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