Case 97
Rule 55.3, Setting and Sheeting Sails: Sheeting Sails
A jockey pole attached to a spinnaker guy is not an outrigger.
Question
Is a jockey pole (a pole that exerts outward pressure on the line that controls the fore and aft position of a spinnaker pole) an outrigger?

Answer
No. When a spinnaker pole is set, the line that controls the fore and aft position of that pole is a guy, not a sheet. A jockey pole putting outward pressure on a guy is therefore not an outrigger, defined by rule 50.3(a) as a "fitting or device" that exerts "outward pressure on a sheet or sail".

GBR 2000/2
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