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A vessel having one mast and fore and aft rig consisting of a boom and gaff mainsail jibs staysail and gaff topsail The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit topmast and standing rigging while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted The sloop usually carries a centerboard and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880 One radical distinction is that a sloop may carry a centerboard See Cutter and Illustration in Appendix...
vessel
vessel A ship, brig, sloop or other craft used, or capable of being used, in navigation on water. In order to be a vessel, for purposes of the Jones Act, the structure's purpose must be the transportation of passengers, cargo or equipment from place to place across navigable waters. Source: FindLaw ...
Boyer
A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end...
Corvet
A war vessel ranking next below a frigate and having usually only one tier of guns called in the United States navy a sloop of war...
Frigatoon
A Venetian vessel with a square stern having only a mainmast jigger mast and bowsprit also a sloop of war ship rigged...
Hoy
A small coaster vessel usually sloop rigged used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place or as a tender to larger vessels in port...
Knockabout
A small yacht generally from fifteen to twenty five feet in length having a mainsail and a jib a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard The original type was twenty one feet in length The next larger type is called a raceabout...
Pungy
A small sloop or shallop or a large boat with sails...
Raceabout
A small sloop rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit...
Smack
A small sailing vessel commonly rigged as a sloop used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade...
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