sailboat
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Around 1607, settlers in the nearby Popham Colony constructed a wooden sailboat, dubbed Virginia—the first oceangoing boat built by English settlers in North America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The fire was inadvertently sparked by a man who crashed his sailboat into rocks on the island’s rugged south side and then fired emergency flares to signal for help, according to the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Maybe you have looked at the clouds and imagined a sailboat, a seahorse, or even your great-aunt Rosemary staring back at you.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
Vaughan had been on the boat with her husband and two children, aged 12 and eight, and had been sunbathing when the motorboat crashed into a sailboat carrying party-goers.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
Not that she could make out sea lions from this distance—the lone sailboat she could see wasn’t any bigger than her fingernail, so a sea lion would be like the size of a freckle.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
It’s reminiscent of a question asked more than a century ago when a visitor noticed stockbrokers’ fine sailboats moored near Wall Street: “But where are the customers’ yachts?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
But the two sailboats have yet to reach Cuba.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
A search and rescue operation is under way in the Caribbean for two missing sailboats filled with humanitarian supplies travelling from Mexico to Cuba.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
In 2002, the two men returned to the bank in three sailboats with a team of architects, cartographers and marine biologists from several countries to continue building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
In the distance, near the harbor, Molly can see a fleet of tiny sailboats.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
