cat rig

noun

Definition of cat rignext
as in yacht

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  1. yacht
  2. schooner
  3. cutter
  4. sloop
  5. catamaran
  6. corvette
  7. junk
  8. clipper
Noun
  • The massive three mast sailing yacht is one of the largest in the world.
    Jim Dobson, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The yacht is considered the world’s largest eco electric catamaran.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of yacht
Noun
  • The Shipwreck Bar is an actual schooner that once belonged to the resort’s original owner.
    Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Definition of schooner
Noun
  • Sugano also throws a cutter, slider, splitter, sinker and curve.
    Chuck Murr, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The pair of figures came into and out of focus; in some passages the surface had hyper-similitude, in others a rougher, grooved surface, betraying the involvement of a CNC cutter.
    Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of cutter
Noun
  • 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
  • Twenty men on Maynard’s sloop died, and Blackbeard presumed the rest of the crew dead.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of sloop
Noun
  • 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
  • During a catamaran trip one afternoon, a humpback whale surfaced in front of our boat just long enough to take a few breaths.
    Essence, Essence, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of catamaran
Noun
  • The arrival of the Ufa and Alatau came less than a week after three corvettes and a support vessel of Russia on Thursday as part of their Asia-Pacific deployment.
    Ryan Chan, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
  • On November 3, 2024, a detachment of ships of the Pacific Fleet consisting of corvettes Gromky, Rezky and Hero of Russia Aldar Tsydenzhapov and support vessel Pechenga arrived on a friendly call at the port of Tanjung Perak in Surabaya.
    Ryan Chan, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of corvette
Noun
  • Among the junk − or potential artifacts for some kind of museum on a future Martian colony, depending on your viewpoint − are discarded tools, crashed spacecraft and dormant equipment that reached the end of its usefulness.
    Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
  • To lend the appearance of vitality, junk cars driven by mannequins populated the parking lot to the backdrop of warbling holiday tapes played on low-fidelity loudspeakers.
    Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of junk
Noun
  • And Baltimore is historically famous for its shipbuilding including the Baltimore clippers and the Liberty ships.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 31 Dec. 2024
  • What's New National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists have issued winter storm warnings for four states in the northern U.S. as an Alberta clipper treks eastward.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of clipper
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