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But not every ship that comes to town is on a Greenpeace watch list; there are also schooners, plus the odd outrigger canoe.
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Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
Blue Soul Maui offers two-hour outrigger canoe tours from Hotel Wailea, allowing guests to snorkel, whale-watch, spot turtles, and learn more about Hawaiian culture while paddling from Wailea Beach along Maui's southern coast.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2024
This is a full-race boat with zero concessions to creature comfort, to the point where the carbon-fiber daggerboard in the water under the central hull reverberates up through the cabin to the mast and over to the outrigger hulls.
—Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 8 July 2023
There’s a javelin-throwing contest, a coconut tree-climbing event, and an outrigger canoe race.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2024
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Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
Blue Soul Maui offers two-hour outrigger canoe tours from Hotel Wailea, allowing guests to snorkel, whale-watch, spot turtles, and learn more about Hawaiian culture while paddling from Wailea Beach along Maui's southern coast.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2024
This is a full-race boat with zero concessions to creature comfort, to the point where the carbon-fiber daggerboard in the water under the central hull reverberates up through the cabin to the mast and over to the outrigger hulls.
—Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 8 July 2023
There’s a javelin-throwing contest, a coconut tree-climbing event, and an outrigger canoe race.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2024
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The 12-m-long (39-ft) electric catamaran is capable of carrying up to 25 passengers, and is equipped with four thrusters and a 188-kWh battery for up to 15 hours of daily operation at a service speed of 6 knots (7 mph).Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2024
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The yacht's communal areas benefit from the catamarans' wide beam, resulting i vast spaces for entertaining, dining, and relaxation.Bill Springer, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
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In December, the developers flew Smith, Owens and an unidentified witness to Florida on a private jet for a meeting on a yacht.Bracey Harris, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Then Kendall Jenner was photographed reading Babitz on a yacht, and she was name-checked — twice — on the Gossip Girl reboot.Lili Anolik, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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Billionaire Michael Krasny lists home in the Park Tower for $3.4M American Airlines tests boarding technology that audibly shames line cutters Blackhawks, Bulls and White Sox have a new TV home.Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 26 Oct. 2024
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Even Bobby Portis is keeping his eyes up, passing up his usual mid-range looks in favor of hitting cutters like Taurean Prince on backdoor slashes.Brian Sampson, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Its story began in 1965, when a Texas oil executive named Johnno Jackson and his wife, Helen, were sailing the South Pacific on their schooner, the New Moon.Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
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This July 2023 photo provided by State Historical Society of Wisconsin shows the schooner Trinidad's wheel.CBS News, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
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The performance sloop will showcase the Brit’s signature contemporary styling, with a reverse bow for maximum waterline length and a sleek hull for effortless cruising.Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Apr. 2024
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The first was a 131-foot sloop, which Walker replaced five years later with a 171-footer.Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2024
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Typically 60 feet long and 8 feet wide, capable of bearing 40 tons, the keelboat was specially designed for the western rivers.Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
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In a dominating victory in the three-person Soling keelboat at the 1972 Olympics, Melges unseated the sport’s greatest sailor, Paul Elvstrom, who had won four Olympic Gold medals.Chris Museler, New York Times, 22 May 2023
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Those who prefer something more active can rent jet skis or head on a catboat tour in a two-person catamaran.Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2024
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At the Seafire, everything from nautical motif chairs upholstered in international flags to a traditional wooden Cayman catboat and prints from local pop artist Dready are found beneath the lobby’s 20-foot ceiling, grounded by natural materials, like weathered wood and polished coral stone.Shayne Benowitz, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 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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“Outrigger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outrigger. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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