We recently ran a sail design trivia question about an outdated sail called the “blooper.” It stumped a good number of you who guessed that the sail’s name was the “whomper.” What is a “whomper” actually?
A) The sail designed to win the America’s Cup in the 1992 movie “Wind”
B) The sail that flies directly forward of a square rigger’s “spanker”
C) A regional nickname for symmetric spinnakers
D) One of the eight one-design sails in each VO65’s sail inventory during the 2014-15 and 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Races
