sloop

Look at him in the photograph here, circa 1977, the year he won the America’s Cup helming the 12-meter sloop, Courageous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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

I had a Baltic 37, a sloop, that was a beautiful sailing boat, and I’d go out with a couple of friends and enjoy the day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024

Morford-Haines returned to Seattle from Alaska, bought a 25-foot sloop and taught herself to sail.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 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

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

We sailed on two chartered Marconi-rigged sloops, one 35 feet long, the other 39.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2018

No picture could have captured those strands of silver and gold shooting through the clouds as the sun set over Lake Montauk, the sloops and fishing boats bobbing alongside the once-rare-now-everywhere yachts.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2014

It used to be that the waters were filled mostly with tugboats, fishing boats, sloops and the occasional mammoth steamship pulling in from Europe after the long crossing. 

From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014

Over the pond the west wind blew, and into the teeth of the west wind sailed the sloops and schooners, their rails well down, their wet decks gleaming.

From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White