Jib Reacher

A jib reacher, often just a reacher, is a large lightweight headsail cut fuller and flatter than a spinnaker and set for sailing across the wind on a reach. It fills the gap between an upwind genoa and a downwind spinnaker, giving drive at apparent-wind angles around 60 to 110 degrees where a spinnaker is hard to carry. Built of light cloth and tacked near the bow, it is a free-flying or hanked sail favored by cruisers wanting easy reaching power without a spinnaker pole or asymmetric setup. Related sails include the code zero and the drifter.