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a blooper!!?
A blooper[1] is a large downwind sail flown to leeward of the spinnaker. They are no longer common. The blooper is an artifact of the lack of directional stability of IOR boats and their tendency to broach. The blooper was supposed to reduce broaching. It didn't, but people were willing to try anything. Pretty though.
1: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=blooper+sail
While the Wauquiez Amphitrite 43[2] is of the IOR vintage she isn't and never was a race boat, much less built to the IOR rule. I was being a little silly bringing up a blooper for such a lady. In full dress (spinnaker, staysail, main, mizzen staysail, mizzen) on a beam reach she's gorgeous. Not fast, but gorgeous. On an owner aboard delivery of an Amel Super Maramu, also a ketch, we sailed like that for two and a half days from the Virgin Islands toward the Chesapeake. The owner was thrilled and excited and many pictures were taken. When last I spoke to him he had not flown the spinnaker or mizzen staysail since I stepped off the boat.
2: https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/amphitrite-43-wauquiez
There's nothing here!