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This July 2023 photo provided by State Historical Society of Wisconsin shows the schooner Trinidad's wheel.
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CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
On the morning of September 30, 1893, a 130-foot schooner called the Margaret A. Muir was sailing across Lake Michigan when a storm rolled in.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
The space, sitting a few steps below street level, is narrow and near-windowless; its low ceilings, tight quarters, and garish colors give an impression less of the lemon-scented hillsides of Sicily than of being stuck below deck on a new-money schooner.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
Site of 1893 shipwreck discovered in Lake Michigan Maritime historians recently found the historic schooner Margaret A. Muir, which was lost in a terrible storm in 1893, just a few miles off a Wisconsin harbor town.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 26 July 2024
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CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
On the morning of September 30, 1893, a 130-foot schooner called the Margaret A. Muir was sailing across Lake Michigan when a storm rolled in.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
The space, sitting a few steps below street level, is narrow and near-windowless; its low ceilings, tight quarters, and garish colors give an impression less of the lemon-scented hillsides of Sicily than of being stuck below deck on a new-money schooner.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
Site of 1893 shipwreck discovered in Lake Michigan Maritime historians recently found the historic schooner Margaret A. Muir, which was lost in a terrible storm in 1893, just a few miles off a Wisconsin harbor town.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 26 July 2024
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To ensure Blackbeard was neutralized, Spotswood gave Robert Maynard, an officer in the Royal Navy, control of 60 men and two sloops—small sailboats that lacked cannons but could pursue Blackbeard in the narrow inlets and shallows of the coast.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
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Twenty men on Maynard’s sloop died, and Blackbeard presumed the rest of the crew dead.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
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On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
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Moreland, who has more than 30 years experience sailing topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques, as well as five world voyages under his belt, said the Picton Castle will be hosting a range of school groups on the vessel.Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
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The sailboats in the force ranged from day cruisers to 150-foot racing yachts.David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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Guo also gained notoriety for palling around with Trump adviser Steve Bannon, whose 2020 arrest on his own fraud charges took place on the tycoon’s yacht.Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025
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Prior to the incident, Wilson had been aboard a 52-foot yawl named the Emerald with friends Oster and Colleen McGovern.Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
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The crew had no time to gather their possessions or weather gear before boarding their small yawl boat, and the ship sank so quickly that a Newfoundland that served as her mascot was unable to escape.Christopher Clough, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
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Photo : Perini Navi ‘Badis,’ 230 Feet, 2016 Perini Navi Originally launched as Sybaris in 2016 for experienced yachtsman Bill Duker, Badis is an all-aluminum ketch built by Italian shipyard Perini Navi.Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2024
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The vessel’s 328-foot submersible aft deck—a feature that first attracted her new owner, who uses OK to transport their 150-foot ketch—is now covered in a carpet of artificial grass.Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2024
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What To Know On December 22 last year, three frigates and three Coast Guard ships from China transited the Miyako Strait westward from the Philippine Sea to the East China Sea, The Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Wednesday, which cited sources close to the Japanese government.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
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The Philippine military immediately sent its naval forces to monitor the Ufa, including a frigate armed with missiles and anti-submarine warfare capabilities.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.Michael Taylor, Forbes, 22 June 2022
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The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
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In the video, Phoenix happily wanders around the catamaran while wearing a burgundy shirt and matching shorts as the watercraft cruised over waves.Ashley Hume, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2024
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De Mey’s biggest project so far is a custom 69-foot foiling catamaran, powered by quad waterjets and capable of 50 knots, built for New Zealand billionaire Graeme Hart.Howard Walker, Robb Report, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Schooner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schooner. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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