schooner
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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
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
As captain and first mate, they say piloting their 75-foot schooner has only strengthened their brotherly bond, with their small expedition team serving as an adoptive family.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024
She was a big, black schooner flying the American flag.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
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Surrounded by undulating circles, spots and stripes, red-roofed Lebanese abodes and white-masted schooners traverse an unsettled horizon line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
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
This commercial harvest of Bristol Bay sockeye began back in the 1880s when schooners started to catch and salt the salmon.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
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
In the old days they fished from schooners, big wooden ships with white canvas sails that took the fishermen far offshore to the Grand Banks fishing grounds.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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