ketch
Example Sentences
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One was a former merchant marine whose wooden 32-foot ketch was barely adequate for a journey through the punishing Southern Ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
A recent addition comes from Sam Keck Scott, who in the summer of 2010 helped to sail a restored Dutch ketch from Malta to Singapore, crossing the Arabian Sea.
From Scientific American • Jul. 23, 2022
Aubrey, Greg and toddler Rue Whittier have lived on the Tenalach, a 45-foot ketch sailboat since 2016.
From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2019
Thornton has entered his 104-foot ketch Whitehawk in the cruising division of the 111th edition of the world’s oldest annual freshwater distance race.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2019
The boat gained the ketch and we climbed aboard.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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