sloop

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Recent Examples of sloop 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 Anguilla locals and visitors alike recommend jumping aboard a classic sailing vessel, known as a sloop, with Tradition Sailing Charter, saying this is the best way to explore the coastline of Anguilla in style. Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023 In the summer of 1969 Mr. Chandler was on the maiden voyage of the Clearwater, the sloop Mr. Seeger used to raise awareness of Hudson River pollution and other environmental causes, sailing from Maine to New York and staging concerts at stops along the way. Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for sloop 
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Noun
  • Its story began in 1965, when a Texas oil executive named Johnno Jackson and his wife, Helen, were sailing the South Pacific on their schooner, the New Moon.
    Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
  • This July 2023 photo provided by State Historical Society of Wisconsin shows the schooner Trinidad's wheel.
    CBS News, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • According to the yacht's maker Dive Pro Liveaboard, the Sea Story was built in 2022 as a four-deck vessel and registered in Safaga, Egypt.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
  • According to the yacht's captain, the suspicious boats followed the vessel's course for two hours, despite evasive maneuvers deployed to shake them off.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The vessel’s 328-foot submersible aft deck—a feature that first attracted her new owner, who uses OK to transport their 150-foot ketch—is now covered in a carpet of artificial grass.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Perkins had amassed a fleet of vessels over a 25-year period that included the 141-foot Perini Navi Andromeda la Dea, a 154-foot ketch of the same name, and the Herreshoff classic Mariette of 1915.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • According to Anton Gerashchenko, a former advisor to the interior ministry in Kyiv, the explosion damaged three ships, including two Gepard-class frigates—the fleet’s biggest ships—as well as a smaller Buyan corvette.
    David Axe, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The Russian vessels consisted of two submarines, a frigate and tug boat, the Coast Guard said.
    CBS News, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • The crew had no time to gather their possessions or weather gear before boarding their small yawl boat, and the ship sank so quickly that a Newfoundland that served as her mascot was unable to escape.
    Christopher Clough, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • Until then, consider sailing the coastline aboard a 120-person catamaran with Solo Expediciones.
    Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The people on the 50-foot catamaran, called the Serenity, called for help after the vessel started taking on water following the failure of a gasket on the escape hatch.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 11 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Typically 60 feet long and 8 feet wide, capable of bearing 40 tons, the keelboat was specially designed for the western rivers.
    Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • In a dominating victory in the three-person Soling keelboat at the 1972 Olympics, Melges unseated the sport’s greatest sailor, Paul Elvstrom, who had won four Olympic Gold medals.
    Chris Museler, New York Times, 22 May 2023
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

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