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Recent Examples of sloop
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.
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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
Ted lifted down a tray of eggs and, pouring a sloop of oil into a pan,cracked one against the edge.
—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
After an encounter with a whale-like dino, their sloop capsizes.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
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When the schooner was just off the coast of El Salvador, a tramp steamer spotted them and finally supplied fresh water.—
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Ella is shocked to suddenly find Nick (Brown), a sailor and local Newport historian, aboard her schooner and accuses him of being a stowaway.—
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Their $500 million mega yacht, Koru, was anchored nearby, but the couple reportedly spent most of their time on land.—
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The Coral Gables man operating the boat that ran over and killed a 15-year-old girl wakeboarding behind a yacht in Biscayne Bay pleaded guilty to misdemeanor careless-boating charges Monday in a Miami-Dade County court.—
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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.—
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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.—
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The Panamax ketch features a sleek aluminum exterior, with a displacement hull and a distinctive pointed bow.—
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And through such buffetings Constance’s little ketch had run aground.—
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Japan has long banned arms exports but has significantly eased restrictions in recent years and is now developing next-generation fighter jets with the UK and Italy while finalizing a deal to sell frigates to Australia.—
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Destroyers, frigates, fighter jets and bombers also carried out simulated strikes on maritime targets.—
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The ship's captain ordered the crew to the yawl boat.—
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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.—
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On Blue Moon, Big Blue’s new 53-foot catamaran, the hold was stuffed with bottles of Moët.—
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Heimann and her family were scheduled to sail on a catamaran in the British Virgin Islands.—
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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.—
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Most of the time, a small keelboat barely exceeds 10 knots of speed (11.5mph).—
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“Sloop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sloop. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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