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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

I had a Baltic 37, a sloop, that was a beautiful sailing boat, and I’d go out with a couple of friends and enjoy the day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 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

There came the sloop, boiling along fast, rolling up a bow wave and gaining steadily.

From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White

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

We sailed on two chartered Marconi-rigged sloops, one 35 feet long, the other 39.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2018

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

The catamarans are much faster than the traditional sloops that historically competed for the trophy but have proved hard to handle.

From The Guardian ● May 10, 2013

Alysane Mormont, whose men name her the She-Bear, hidfighters inside a gaggle of fishing sloops and took the ironmen unawares where they lay off the strand.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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