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

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

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 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

He smiled and the warm water from the jelly jar opened that little valve up and ... woop, zoop, sloop ... he soaked his sheets!

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis