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Recent Examples of sloop
Today, the colonial-era port Nelson's Dockyard is a UNESCO World Heritage Site complete with two boutique hotels, a museum, local craft shops, cafes and restaurants, and a marina filled with everything from stately sloops to gaudy megayachts.
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Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
In the Caribbean, wandering yachtsmen on sloops and catamarans know these masts well.
—Joe Sills, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
To ensure Blackbeard was neutralized, Spotswood gave Robert Maynard, an officer in the Royal Navy, control of 60 men and two sloops—small sailboats that lacked cannons but could pursue Blackbeard in the narrow inlets and shallows of the coast.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
Twenty men on Maynard’s sloop died, and Blackbeard presumed the rest of the crew dead.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
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Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
In the Caribbean, wandering yachtsmen on sloops and catamarans know these masts well.
—Joe Sills, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
To ensure Blackbeard was neutralized, Spotswood gave Robert Maynard, an officer in the Royal Navy, control of 60 men and two sloops—small sailboats that lacked cannons but could pursue Blackbeard in the narrow inlets and shallows of the coast.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
Twenty men on Maynard’s sloop died, and Blackbeard presumed the rest of the crew dead.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sloop
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The 200 square miles of surrounding coral reefs proved rough for mariners, but divers now reap the benefits with some 300 shipwrecks to explore, from the 192-foot American schooner Constellation that sank during World War II to the Mary Celestia, a Civil War era paddle-wheeler.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
22 May 2025
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The Californian is a 41 year-old wooden topsail schooner that was built as a replica of the 1847 Revenue Cutter C.W. Lawrence.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 June 2025
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Reese Witherspoon and her boyfriend, Oliver Haarmann, were photographed this week enjoying a vacation on a yacht in St. Tropez, France.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
20 July 2025
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In July 2023, the pair spent time with the late Liam Payne and his girlfriend Kate Cassidy on a luxury yacht in Saint-Tropez.—
Colson Thayer,
People.com,
18 July 2025
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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
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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
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The Panamax ketch features a sleek aluminum exterior, with a displacement hull and a distinctive pointed bow.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
8 July 2025
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And through such buffetings Constance’s little ketch had run aground.—
Jim Shepard,
New Yorker,
8 June 2025
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In September 2021, the frigate HMS Richmond—deployed to the western Pacific with an aircraft carrier group—transited the waterway en route to Vietnam after operating in the East China Sea.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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There are about 3,600 bunkers on Sazan, armored cement mushrooms emerging from the vegetation or perched on mountaintops like lookouts against phantom American aircraft carriers or Soviet frigates.—
Marzio Mian,
The Dial,
12 June 2025
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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
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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
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After the travel party’s homemade catamaran flipped, leaving the group to drift in the ocean for over 24 hours, Rockefeller strapped empty gasoline cans to his waist and swam for help.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
29 June 2025
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The firm’s bet on the high-tech, high-speed world of foiling catamarans signals growing investor confidence in SailGP’s model, a centralized league shifting rapidly to private franchise ownership.—
Asli Pelit,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
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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
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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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“Sloop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sloop. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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