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A sloop uses what is called a Bermuda or Marconi rig: the tall, thin, triangular mainsail we're all so used to seeing on the water.

POTTER County Judge John Sloop believes the bracelet is an effective tool for preventing repeat crime.

She left her husband, helped Rackham steal a sloop, and soon she and Rackham were off to sea, with Bonny dressed as a man.

Here's another example of a sloop with a Bermuda rig.

Edward England's career as a pirate began while he was working on a sloop as a first mate .

The sloop rig is also considered faster and is therefore used almost exclusively in racing sailboats.

In all, a ketch carries about the same total square footage of sail area as a sloop of the equivalent size.

A ketch therefore uses three primary sails: the mainsail and head sail, as on a sloop, plus the mizzen sail aft.

A small sloop with a mainsail , jib , and keel but no bowsprit .

Crewed for my sister on a sloop; a spacecraft that was crewed by a team of eight people.

In a thight situation, a sloop should try to outrun its enemy, using the ability to outmanoeuvre large vessels.

In a Bermuda-rigged sloop the mainsail has a tall, triangular shape.

Their ship, a small, storm-weathered British sloop was anchored in the distance.

Because of the Liberty captain and crew's blatant disregard for the law, the sloop was boarded by customs officials.

Here's a small racing dinghy with a sloop rig.

The sloop HMS Gannet protected British trade routes and did anti-slavery patrol in the 19th century.

A sloop that had run foul of the submerged reef.

A sloop may also use a racing or cruising spinnaker.

The most common type of small to midsize sailboat is the sloop.

A sloop is generally the most common type of sailboat rig.

He likes to sloop with the window open.

for what we took to be an island proved to be the back of a sea_monster. The nimblest got into the sloop;

He is coming to enter his new sloop, the Guinevere, in next summer's International Cup Race;

crew: I crewed for my sister on a sloop;