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[sloop] / slup /




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As the skipper of the 40-foot sloop First Light, Ms. Brauer had at her fingertips resources that would have amazed the salts of yore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Marks told Barron’s in 2021 that he owns a Danish-built sloop named Linnea that he had been fixing up for years, and sailed it in the Chesapeake Bay.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2025

Rubio’s 32-foot Westsail sloop, Malulani, departed Dec. 28 bound for Kaneohe, Oahu.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

The sloop also dismasted off the Falkland Islands while the team was in second place on Leg 7.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

Suddenly, a sloop yawed toward them and the moon filled its half sail with bright light.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

In the 1800s, long before social distancing, the Delaware River in Philadelphia was clogged with sloops, barges, and packet ships hauling cargo and immigrants here.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2020

And, for a few years, young fair-haired Captain Morgan ran the sloops.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 2, 2015

The catamarans are much faster than the traditional sloops that historically competed for the trophy but have proved hard to handle.

From The Guardian ● May 10, 2013

Alysane Mormont, whose men name her the She-Bear, hidfighters inside a gaggle of fishing sloops and took the ironmen unawares where they lay off the strand.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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