sloop

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Recent Examples of sloop The first was a 131-foot sloop, which Walker replaced five years later with a 171-footer. Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2024 In 2005, the first South African yacht to challenge for the America’s Cup hit a whale with its 12-foot keel during training near Cape Town, stopping the 75-foot sloop dead in the water, injuring two crewmembers and snapping off both steering wheels. Jimmy Golen, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2023 Baltic Yachts just unveiled a new sloop with a striking pastel-pink hull. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2024 There are now 10 different layouts available, allowing seafarers to personalize the sloop as needed. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for sloop
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Noun
  • Help hoist the sails of the Schooner Freedom, a massive topsail schooner captained by John and Sarah Zaruba.
    Kara Franker, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Renamed Magic Circle, Guthrie’s schooner became a lowly minesweeper along the Scottish coast.
    Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The move makes the yacht’s interior volume, already considerable at 500 gross tons, feel significantly larger.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2025
  • When Tanya began shooting up the yacht and then fell to her death from it, that was all played for laughs, after all.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Moreland, who has more than 30 years experience sailing topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques, as well as five world voyages under his belt, said the Picton Castle will be hosting a range of school groups on the vessel.
    Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • One 203-feet sailing ketch called Simena which will have an on-deck Jacuzzi, six guest cabins and ample exterior deck spaces.
    Katia Damborsky, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Photo : Perini Navi ‘Badis,’ 230 Feet, 2016 Perini Navi Originally launched as Sybaris in 2016 for experienced yachtsman Bill Duker, Badis is an all-aluminum ketch built by Italian shipyard Perini Navi.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The British Royal Navy's frigate also launched a Merlin helicopter from 814 Naval Air Squadron to ascertain valuable information aerially.
    Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Taiwan's Pan Chao frigate (PFG2-1108) monitors PLAN Siming Shan Type 071 LPD (986) and Qiandaohu Type 903 replenishment ship (886).
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Dove/Torr Cottage, Centerport After a decade living on their yawl in Huntington Harbor and a stint upstate after his mother died, artists Arthur Dove and Helen Torr were able to purchase an old post-office building perched alongside Titus Mill Pond in 1938.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 27 July 2024
  • Prior to the incident, Wilson had been aboard a 52-foot yawl named the Emerald with friends Oster and Colleen McGovern.
    Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
Noun
  • Private speedboat or catamaran charters are nothing compared to the experience aboard the Friendship Rose, a classic Caribbean schooner with soaring sails built by hand on the sands of Bequia's Friendship Bay several decades ago.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
  • While this sprawling lagoon can be explored by foot, it’s best experienced from the comfort of a boat, with multiple excursions taking place each day via canoe and catamaran.
    Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • However, apart from his time competing on high-speed M32 catamarans, Canfield’s experience and success have come through racing traditional keelboats.
    Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Most of the time, a small keelboat barely exceeds 10 knots of speed (11.5mph).
    Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025

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