schooner

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

Lake Superior’s first known commercial casualty, in 1816, was a schooner with a name that suggests hubris: the Invincible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

In early January, excitement builds aboard the Avontuur - a 100-year-old schooner - as it sets sail from Germany and heads towards the rough waters of the North Sea.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025

The show is set on board the American Pride tall ship docked at Long Beach’s Pine Avenue Pier, a 130-foot schooner that today is primarily used as an education-focused vessel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025

Someday, I’ll charter a schooner out of Panama and explore the Devil’s Mouth.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

As a young man, by his account, he smuggled diamonds, oversaw coconut plantations, dynamited fish, captained schooners and hunted killer cannibals in the New Guinea jungle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Six schooners outfitted by George Washington to intercept British vessels at sea flew the flag in 1775 as they sailed under his command.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024

Instead, he conjured the past as a master of richly detailed historical works brimming with schooners, brigs and sloops, their sails flapping under moody clouds, with shore lights twinkling in the distance.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

Time Out credited the "inexpensive Neapolitan pizzas and beer schooners" at Paesano as one of the highlights on the road.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2022

Tied up along its shores was every conceivable kind of watercraft— Chinese junks, tugboats, rickety houseboats, old schooners, and barges heaped with jumbles of industrial cargo.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown