sloop

As the skipper of the 40-foot sloop First Light, Ms. Brauer had at her fingertips resources that would have amazed the salts of yore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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

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

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

I knew right then I was in the sloop of despond.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Instead, he conjured the past as a master of richly detailed historical works brimming with schooners, brigs and sloops, their sails flapping under moody clouds, with shore lights twinkling in the distance.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

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

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

Up and down the river, an assortment of tall ships with black hulls—schooners and sloops dating from the previous century—also lay at anchor.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown