catamaran

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Recent Examples of catamaran In 2018, Ellison cofounded SailGP, a high-speed catamaran racing league that competes around the world and has attracted celebrity backers. Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025 Sports fishermen and dedicated divers still come here in droves—and many travelers opt to take a catamaran expedition to the pristine, protected Islands of Loreto that sit just offshore. Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025 The Extra range includes three yacht lines—Fast, Triplex, and Global—ranging from 56 to 145 feet, as well as a 98-foot catamaran model called Villa. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2025 The company offers everything from half-day catamaran sails to three-hour private adventure charters to Masonboro Island. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for catamaran
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Noun
  • Amidst these displays is also, inexplicably, a poster of her and John on a yacht and at a Utah Jazz game (which Bronwyn points out isn’t courtside).
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Ximena is Alia’s first new yacht of 2025, but more fleet members are on the horizon.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Inspired by the original 1926 Q Class sloop, known as Q7 Falcon, aka Lively Lady, which Peter sails regularly around San Diego.
    Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • From Ocean Swell to Living-Room Calm Industrial designer Roey Pan sketched the first arc aboard a 27-ft sloop, tracing the way a mainsail breathes with the wind.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Dash was a privateer schooner that vanished in 1815 and soon entered local legend as a ghost ship.
    Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Researchers discovered a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan 140 years ago, ending decades of searches for the elusive ghost ship.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Panamax ketch features a sleek aluminum exterior, with a displacement hull and a distinctive pointed bow.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 July 2025
  • And through such buffetings Constance’s little ketch had run aground.
    Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Blasetti is facing grand larceny charges for allegedly swiping a keelboat from the Dyckman Marina in Inwood around noon Saturday and rowed it to a trimaran moored out in the Hudson River.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 24 July 2025
  • Most of the time, a small keelboat barely exceeds 10 knots of speed (11.5mph).
    Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Those who prefer something more active can rent jet skis or head on a catboat tour in a two-person catamaran.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2024
  • At the Seafire, everything from nautical motif chairs upholstered in international flags to a traditional wooden Cayman catboat and prints from local pop artist Dready are found beneath the lobby’s 20-foot ceiling, grounded by natural materials, like weathered wood and polished coral stone.
    Shayne Benowitz, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • The ship's captain ordered the crew to the yawl boat.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Plunge into the pristine waters for snorkeling, kayaking, outrigger canoeing or stand-up paddleboarding.
    Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And Ami just loses her footing and falls off the outrigger.
    EW.com, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025

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