ketch
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One was a former merchant marine whose wooden 32-foot ketch was barely adequate for a journey through the punishing Southern Ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
It was taken by crew members on a ketch that sailed near the island of Java in the summer of 2019.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 2022
From horizon to horizon, from stern to bow, the sea all around them was glowing as their 52-foot-long ketch passed south of the Indonesian island of Java on a moonless night.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2022
Errol Flynn regularly sailed through on his ketch, Sirocco; Colette wrote books at her bungalow; and Coco Chanel and Jean Cocteau vacationed here.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2020
Said it was a good chance to ketch up on what needed doin’.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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