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

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 was a guy named John Sherwood who would ply the Chesapeake Bay in his sloop and find these islands where the oystermen still spoke almost in Elizabethan dialect, and write these rhapsodic pictures.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2022

The Hurd sloop towed them up the Kennebec, calling out to other lanterned ships as they went by.

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