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• Why take the risk of piloting a coastal pleasure craft across the ocean?
  — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2022
• The winds and seas were rough, and Mr. Wiley fell from the 23-foot pleasure craft into the Chesapeake Bay.
  — New York Times, 19 May 2021
• The waters off the beach here are dotted with fishing boats and pleasure craft.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2021
• At area docks, fishing boats seemed to be giving way to pleasure craft, which can be less costly, and more profitable, to cater to.
  — Paul Roberts, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
• During the summer, small pleasure craft come and go through Fiskebrygga’s canal that links the nearby harbours with the open ocean.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• Strong currents and large debris can threaten the safety of pleasure craft during high flows.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 23 Mar. 2022
• When the boat sank, a bevy of commercial ships and pleasure craft, as well as Coast Guard vessels and helicopters in the area, rushed to pull drowning people from the sea, but in the darkness and as day broke hundreds drowned.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Even those who spend a week on the water, exploring via pleasure craft by day and spending nights in a houseboat, won't have enough time to see everything Lake Powell has to offer.
  — Melissa Yeager, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• Bystanders were trying to extinguish the flames and told rescue workers that the pleasure craft was in the process of fueling at the time, but the exact cause of the fire is under investigation, Heflin said.
  — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Houses with private boat docks, bulkheads, sea walls and lifts are in high demand as Americans buy pleasure craft in record numbers in an effort to social distance and stay healthy in the great outdoors.
  — Claire Wilson, WSJ, 20 July 2021
• One person is dead and another two are missing after a barge crashed into a pleasure craft on the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky, according to officials.
  — ABC News, 18 Apr. 2021
• As sensor operators have become adept at spotting pangas, the smugglers’ use of pleasure craft has increased.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
• With that one under quarantine and others full in late April, Malta decided to charter private vessels, in this case from a tourist pleasure craft company, to house the migrants.
  — Time, 3 June 2020
• Crossings at sea, often on small fishing boats or pleasure craft, have also increased as sensors and barriers have become more prevalent on land, and as plummeting tourism has led some boat operators to turn to smuggling.
  — New York Times, 31 Oct. 2021
• Organizations are also known to use pleasure craft such as sailboats and cabin cruisers to blend in with recreational traffic, unloading migrants one or two at a time at public and private marinas, Davis said.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024