sloop

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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

Morford-Haines returned to Seattle from Alaska, bought a 25-foot sloop and taught herself to sail.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023

But as the ocean surged and winds surpassed 100 mph, the anchor ripped away from the vessel, Burki said, flinging the slender, longhaired mariner and his sloop ashore over the tops of trees and shrubs.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2022

Suddenly, a sloop yawed toward them and the moon filled its half sail with bright light.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt