windjammer

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From the bridge of the three-masted windjammer, the Sea Cloud Spirit, the captain called out the words we’d all been waiting for.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2024

The Grace Bailey is part of the state’s so-called windjammer fleet, a collection of sailing vessels that take people on excursions up and down the coast.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 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

The crew and my fellow passengers are hankering for a food fight, a rare occurrence on a windjammer cruise, but one that at least a few veteran passengers recall with fondness.

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