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[sloop] / slup /




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Look at him in the photograph here, circa 1977, the year he won the America’s Cup helming the 12-meter sloop, Courageous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Marks told Barron’s in 2021 that he owns a Danish-built sloop named Linnea that he had been fixing up for years, and sailed it in the Chesapeake Bay.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2025

Rubio’s 32-foot Westsail sloop, Malulani, departed Dec. 28 bound for Kaneohe, Oahu.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

The sloop also dismasted off the Falkland Islands while the team was in second place on Leg 7.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

And he hobbled away, yelling something at a deckhand who was dumping slops off the stern of a sloop at anchor.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

Small, shallow-draft scows then took the stones to much bigger schooners or sloops, anchored in deeper water, for the trip up the Potomac.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021

In the 1800s, long before social distancing, the Delaware River in Philadelphia was clogged with sloops, barges, and packet ships hauling cargo and immigrants here.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2020

The first ships to sail the lakes were classic European schooners, sloops and brigs.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2016

It used to be that the waters were filled mostly with tugboats, fishing boats, sloops and the occasional mammoth steamship pulling in from Europe after the long crossing. 

From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014

Hundreds of clippers, schooners, sloops, barges, ferries, and steamboats raised and lowered their flags to honor the Arctic heroes.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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