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Gooseneck (sailing)

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This article is about the sailing term, did you mean gooseneck barnacle?
A gooseneck swivel connection holding the boom to the mast on a typcial small yacht.

The gooseneck is the swivel connection on a sailboat by which the boom attaches to the mast. The boom moves from side to side and up and down by swiveling on the gooseneck.

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