Don't they just bend till they are asymmetric?
Now my boom head is about 150mm off centre
It's from sailing where they are also called booms.
So why are they called booms?
A: They just are.
I suppose the original question was rhetorical,
but just when you thought that booms with a 's' was unique to windsurfers...
An amazing boat that uses the windsurfing-type boomS... The nearest thing to windsurfing where you can sit and have a tinny or two whilst sailing...
she was world famous for a while. now she has gone all quite. she was the hottest chick on youtube
boom (n.)
"long pole," 1543, from Scottish boun, borrowed from Du. boom "tree, pole, beam," from a M.Du. word analogous to O.E. beam. The business sense (1873) is sometimes said to be from this word, from the nautical meaning "a long spar run out to extend the foot of a sail;" a ship "booming" being one in full sail. But it could just as well be from boom (v.), on the notion of "suddenness."
I miss party boy Corey, now he was HOT, esp. his nipple piercing
wishbone booms came from Chesapeake Bay fishing boats and would have been forgotten if not for their modern adaption to windsurfers.
that has to be a good thing
