sloop
sloop
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I like storms even though one tried to kill me a few years ago, late at night on a 36-foot sloop with its full mainsail still stupidly up, twenty miles from the nearest shore of Lake Superior.
a one-masted sailboat with a fore-and-aft mainsail and a jib.
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Fortunately, the skipper has both dogs, as well as kids and crew, in life jackets aboard the family 'sloop' Off Call.
Johnson is a tacky tuna boat owner who buys the 'sloop' out from under Ross, but then offers him a chance to ‘buy it back’ by indenturing him to captain his fishing fleet.
Before the war, the Admiralty had developed a 'sloop' design for convoy escort work.
A small 'sloop' approaches the shore ferrying a group of passengers from Gloucester.
When he stood, he glanced out the window and was able to see just the top of the mast of the anchored 'sloop' .
He returned to Australia in 1941 and was appointed in command of the 'sloop' HMAS Yarra in January 1942.
In addition, the wind is often light and, when it blows, amazingly fluky - I can remember sailing almost completely around one of the San Juans without touching our 'sloop' 's sheets.
The colony of Victoria, also concerned with its security, acquired the steam 'sloop' Victoria in 1855.
I like storms even though one tried to kill me a few years ago, late at night on a 36-foot 'sloop' with its full mainsail still stupidly up, twenty miles from the nearest shore of Lake Superior.
Matt followed Katherine's lead and moved out onto the tiny foredeck of the 'sloop' .
In fact, Australia lost just two ships in that campaign - the light cruiser Perth and the small 'sloop' Yarra.
From May 1941 to February 1943 Parker was in HMS Fareham, a 'sloop' operating off the coast of Cyraniaca in support of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.
Shots were fired from behind and an all out sea battle began, the 'sloop' versus three heavily armed galleons.
The 'sloop' 's rudder had dislodged, leaving a gaping hole below the waterline that could not be closed.
During WWII, while in command of the 'sloop' HMAS Yarra, he and his ship's company put up a valiant fight to protect an Allied convoy from Japanese attack in the Java Sea.
In July 1798, Stephen Decatur, on the 'sloop' Delaware, captured the French schooner Croyable off New Jersey.
For most coastal cruising conditions the 'sloop' would be the preferred rig on this size boat but, perhaps for aesthetic reasons, most were rigged with the double headsail arrangement.
When you round Cove Point, the sun, like a low red host, has migrated west of the church steeple over the anchorage of 'sloops' and ketches into what will soon be night past the carcass of a skiff almost hidden in the weeds.
The harbor is filled every day with all manner of sleek vessels - from 10-foot kayaks, to 30-foot 'sloops' , to oceangoing cargo ships that stretch almost 1,000 feet from stem to stern.
The naturally perfect horseshoe-shaped harbor is filled with mega cruise ships, sailing yachts, 'sloops' , ferryboats, and fishing craft.
Two 'sloops' next to each other might have to move one boat bow in and the other stern in, for example.
In right field some 50 boats - 'sloops' to kayaks - idled in the cove, swimmers hopeful of retrieving any home run ball hit into the drink.
Whimbrel - now ENS Tariq - retains many of the features which helped her and the rest of the Black Swan class of 'sloops' defeat the German U-boats in one of the crucial campaigns of World War II.
Again, that's great stuff for kids - it's pirates, it's pistols, it's cutlasses, it's galleons and 'sloops' and swords.
Along the edges of the convoys sailed a variety of ships: graceful 'sloops' , chunky corvettes, slim gunboats like the Dutch Soemba, antisubmarine patrol craft, fast PT boats, and everywhere sleek destroyers.
A procession of big cruising 'sloops' was entering the marina, and I suddenly realized that their skippers intended to dock under sail.
Stark paused for a moment to look out on the British 'sloops' and transport ships in the harbor, then ran across the ridgeline of Breed's Hill toward his troops, two hundred New Hampshire militiamen.
Not that there was any shortage of new sailing craft on display - mostly glittering 'sloops' with racing pedigrees as long as your arm.
A collection of tattered men o'war and patched 'sloops' is firing directly over the decks of the old admiral's flagship and into the area of HMS Brown.
Forget all the sailing ships, the 'sloops' , brigs, schooners and luggers lost here, and concentrate on the steamships.
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