yacht
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The yacht lost all power and steering after making contact with a fish farm in Red Bay, in 60 knots of wind, causing it to become trapped.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
What it might be like to arrive at a Mediterranean island on a yacht and to think that the next logical step is that this island should belong to you.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Its front page also carries the mystery of "JK Rowling and the magically vanishing superyacht name", asking why the author is "hiding the name of her yacht?"
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The businessman was arrested at the end of 2019 on board his yacht as he tried to leave Malta.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
He pulled into a parking space in front of what used to be the veiy exclusive yacht club.
From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez
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Matthew Pickard, 55, Stephen Greenaway, 48, and Paul Laver, 48, bought luxury homes, cars and yachts from the profits of Bournemouth-based Ethical Forestry Ltd, which promised forestry investments in Costa Rica.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Over the years, however, Xu's taste for yachts and luxury clashed with President Xi Jinping's crackdown on extreme wealth as Beijing tightened its watch over corruption within the financial sector.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Newly enriched Americans are bound to spend some of their windfall on new cars, yachts, houses and the like.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The public official is accused of lodging without permission on two docked yachts that did not belong to her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
On the lake a hundred or more ships, yachts, and launches lay at anchor with colored lights on their bows and booms and strung along their rigging.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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All last summer Queen & Daughter yachted and toured in Scandinavia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He yachted in summer and sat with equally well-bred companions in the posh Carlton Club in winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She may repeat the furore created when King George's mother, Denmark's radiant Alexandra, was similarly yachted to Britain to marry the future Edward VII.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He has yachted from blazing Syria to arctic Spitsbergen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Ellis said that he had frequently yachted with some of his relations, and that he should be delighted to take a cruise with Ernest when they could afford to have a boat.
From Ernest Bracebridge School Days by William I. Thomas
A yachting incident intensified the rivalry between Turner and Murdoch in 1983 when a Murdoch-sponsored yacht collided with Turner's in the Sydney-Hobart race, sinking Turner's schooner.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
Previous excuses for failing to file have included being up a mountain or yachting around the world.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
It isn’t hard to think that Jeff Bezos left his role as Amazon.com’s CEO to enjoy a slower life filled with yachting and celebrity parties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
We’d probably come back home, have a little dessert and watch either “The Great British Baking Show” or “Below Deck,” a drama-packed look inside the world of private yachting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025
But Coyotito—he was the one—he wore a blue sailor suit from the United States and a little yachting cap such as Kino had seen once when a pleasure boat put into the estuary.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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