Driver (sail)
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A driver is a kind of sail used on some sailboats. Smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square rigger, a driver is tied to the same spars.
| Sails, Spars and Rigging | |
|---|---|
| Sails | |
| Course | Driver | Extra | Genoa | Gennaker | Jib | Lateen | Mainsail | Moonsail | Spanker | Spinnaker | Spritsail | Staysail | Studding | Tallboy | Topgallant | Topsail | Trysail | |
| Sail anatomy and materials | |
| Clew | Dacron | Foot | Head | Kevlar | Leech | Luff | Roach | Tack | |
| Spars | |
| Boom | Bowsprit | Fore-mast | Gaff | Jigger-mast | Jury Rig | Main-mast | Mast | Mizzen-mast | Masthead Truck | Spinnaker Pole | Yard | |
| Rigging components | |
| Backstay | Block | Boom vang | Braces | Buntlines | Cleat | Clevis Pin | Clewlines | Cunningham | Downhaul | Forestay | Gasket | Gooseneck | Guy | Halyard | Outhaul | Parrell beads | Peak | Preventer | Ratlines | Rigging (Running) | Shackle | Rigging (Standing) | Sheet | Shroud | Stay mouse | Stays | Throat | Topping lift | Trapeze | |
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