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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 The thrown-togetherness of a windjammer cruise seems part of the appeal. Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2022 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for windjammer
Noun
  • This will mark the first time LL Cool J, 57, is steering the ship solo.
    Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Maybe ship Enid with somebody her own age.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The same year the Earl of Chatham was discovered in Scotland, a storm in Massachusetts exposed a wrecked schooner from 1909, another on North Carolina’s Outer Banks’s revealed the remains of a boat from 1919 and storms in Maine resurfaced yet another 18th century vessel on a beach.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The source is a wooden schooner named the James R. Bentley that's been sitting in Lake Huron for nearly 150 years.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Design firm Yabu Pushelberg created interiors that feel more like a private yacht than a city hotel.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Those sailing aboard The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection’s 226-suite Luminara yacht can count Singapore as a spectacular port of call.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • An avuncular figure in his 70s with the physique of a man who has enjoyed life, Pier Luigi fell in love with sailing in his late teens, when a family friend took him for a cruise in a sloop.
    Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Thales has completed Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs) for both the Mission System and the Combat System on the Royal Navy’s new Type 31 Inspiration-class frigates.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
  • British officials, seeking economies of scale for their own navy and to boost Scotland’s shipyard industry, had heavily promoted the BAE Systems’ frigates, known as the T-26 City-class.
    Reuters 22 min ago, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • It’s sort of based on a sailboat.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This Versailles-meets-surrealism palace hotel is set on the doorstep of the Tuileries Garden, where hotel staff can arrange for carousel rides and loaner toy sailboats.
    Elissa Garay, AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The majority of the lower deck is dedicated to the crew, with four double cabins, a crew mess, a laundry, and a professional galley.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Before the installation of the secondary cockpit barriers, Southwest Airlines' procedure required a flight attendant to stand and face the cabin while a beverage cart was used to block passengers from approaching the galley.
    Zach Wichter, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That was enough to buy him a space on a derelict dinghy, with some 70 others, hoping soon to see England’s white cliffs.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The outlet reported a rescue boat was deployed to help the man, who was pulled from the sea onto a dinghy, but did not survive.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Windjammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/windjammer. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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