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Recent Examples of outrigger
Watch outriggers glide down the Ala Wai from your breezy rooftop lanai while sipping a cup of Kona coffee, then pop down to Redfish for a proper bowl of poke.
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Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
As the ceremony concludes, a single 45-foot outrigger canoe glides back to shore, its paddlers moving in tune with the ocean's currents.
—Kaniela Ing, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
Watch outriggers glide down the Ala Wai from your breezy rooftop lanai while sipping a cup of Kona coffee, then walk to Waikiki Beach to fetch a log and a lesson from the local beach boys.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
But not every ship that comes to town is on a Greenpeace watch list; there are also schooners, plus the odd outrigger canoe.
—Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
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Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
As the ceremony concludes, a single 45-foot outrigger canoe glides back to shore, its paddlers moving in tune with the ocean's currents.
—Kaniela Ing, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
Watch outriggers glide down the Ala Wai from your breezy rooftop lanai while sipping a cup of Kona coffee, then walk to Waikiki Beach to fetch a log and a lesson from the local beach boys.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
But not every ship that comes to town is on a Greenpeace watch list; there are also schooners, plus the odd outrigger canoe.
—Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outrigger
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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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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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There was the glimmer of possibility in stories of bolt cutters and train yards and spray cans—possibilities of disruption and liberation.hazlitt.net, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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Two Coast Guard cutters also joined in the search, which covered more than 108 square nautical miles for nearly a day.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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The Shipwreck Bar is an actual schooner that once belonged to the resort’s original owner.Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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The schooner’s South Australian owner escaped conviction on slavery charges because the prosecution didn’t have enough evidence to prove that working conditions at the ship’s destination of Fiji constituted slavery.Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 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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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 18 Jan. 2025.
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