sloop
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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
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
Both of them start real, real small and then ... woop, zoop, sloop ... before you can say Jack Robinson they’ve gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Vocabulary lists containing sloop
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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