windjammer

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That’s when he stumbled upon a yellowing periodical recounting the intentional burning of Glory of the Seas, a legendary windjammer just off the shore of West Seattle at Fauntleroy one century ago.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2023

The Oceanics School offered a journey of a lifetime that spring of 1972 on the Sea Cloud, a historic windjammer designed by heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and hailed as the greatest sailing yacht ever built.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2021

But the Avanti was a fast and durable vessel known as a windjammer, with what was in 1875 a state-of-the-art iron hull.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2016

No one’s taking themselves too seriously here, so if your idea of a sail involves starched white slacks and a sweater knotted just-so around your shoulders, then a windjammer cruise is probably not for you.

From Washington Post

At the head of Miller Bay, beyond the mud flats, lived Captain Jonathan Soderland, who’d plied his decrepit windjammer, the C. S. Murphy, to the Arctic each year on trading expeditions.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson