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Recent Examples of windjammer Take a stroll around the harbor to look at the fishing boats, yachts, and windjammers. Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023 Schooner Heritage, Rockland Cast your troubles to the wind with an all-inclusive sailing vacation onboard the Schooner Heritage, a Maine windjammer that cruises Penobscot Bay. Hilary Nangle, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2023 Historic windjammers and dozens of other boats bob in Camden’s harbor. Heather Eng, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2023 The thrown-togetherness of a windjammer cruise seems part of the appeal. Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2022 But Warren had an advantage: The Rex, converted from a windjammer to a barge, couldn’t move under its own power. Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021 Cornero spent $200,000 transforming a 300-foot-long former windjammer into a casino. Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021 Each windjammer is individually owned and operated and offers 3- to 10-night sailing vacations from May through October. Margie Goldsmith, Forbes, 24 May 2021 But more mainstream companies now are operating sailing ships: Take Windstar, whose three windjammers sail under engine and wind power simultaneously, or Ponant’s namesake three-masted clipper, the first in its fleet. Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for windjammer
Noun
  • The ships’ cargoes also helped the researchers confirm their Danish origin.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
  • Sky News reported that the victim was a member of a bachelor party onboard the ship.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 8 May 2025
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
  • Two big schooners of beer, then — pilsner for me, IPA for Ian.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In addition to the interior amenities, the estate features an array of waterfront offerings, including a 51-foot yacht currently berthed at the Corinthian Yacht Club, as well as a coveted 60-foot slip at San Francisco’s Pier 39.
    Emma Kershaw, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • Ward accepted the honor and joined up with the tour in Catania, a port city in Sicily, before sailing on a royal yacht up the coast of Italy to Venice.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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
Noun
  • During the unprecedented China's naval circumnavigation of Australia, which took place from mid-February to early March, it was reported that the flotilla, consisting of a destroyer, a frigate, and a replenishment ship, likely deployed with a nuclear-powered submarine.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
  • They were followed by the UNSC frigate In Amber Clad, the slipspace leading both parties to a second Halo ring.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 29 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Also: The living room’s sailboat painting and a Krusty Burger ad is on the TV screen.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 13 May 2025
  • The Lands’ End brand, which started in Chicago in 1963 as a sailboat equipment catalog, was spun off in 2014. 2022: Monty, one half of a pair of beloved piping plovers that spent several summers along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Chicago, died at Montrose Beach, officials said.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • These are a great option for smaller kitchens with tight walkways, like galley kitchens.
    Alice Knisley Matthias, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2025
  • Drawn out of his humble galley kitchen and into a world of diplomatic intrigue, Carême becomes a pawn in the cold war between Talleyrand, a Machiavellian schemer stabbing backs in the name of a newborn republic, and Fouché, a draconian lawman who mistrusts anything that moves.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Wagner didn’t find Wood near the dinghy near the dock and at around 1:30 a.m.
    Alex Gurley, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The boys board a rescue boat and pull five souls off the Flicka’s rescue dinghy, all while sharks circle and buck.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Windjammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/windjammer. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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