Sentences with word «sloop»
A sloop is a small boat with a main mast and a jib, or smaller sail, at the front. It's usually used for leisure or racing, and commonly has one hull and one sail. Full definition
I have been the environmental director of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater for 15 years and served as the recycling coordinator / educator for the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency (UCRRA) for ten years prior.
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The environmental group Hudson River Sloop Clearwater called the planned Indian Point shutdown «a step in the right direction» but said the fact that it won't happen until 2021 means risks will remain for the next four years.
BOATING — ROBIN, a 43 - foot sloop skippered by Lee Van Gemert and owned by Ted Hood, won the trans - Atlantic race from Newport with a corrected time of 14 days, 21:41:00.
In the late 1800s, the fish were so abundant in the Hudson River that they were stacked like logs on sloop decks and the smoked flesh gained the nickname Albany beef.
It is also the best sailing sloop in Belize at present — of traditional design — bar none!
I had the pleasure of joining Pete Seeger, the Grammy - winning Rivertown Kids and some friends in some music on Sunday at the annual Beacon Sloop Club Strawberry Festival, which is held in a park on the Hudson River that was once a landfill.
A fresh illustration of the extent of ecological transformation came earlier this month in the Hudson Valley, as Steve Stanne, the education coordinator for the New York State Hudson River Estuary Program, was talking about river issues at the annual Beacon Sloop Club Strawberry Festival on the riverfront.
Here, crews from across the archipelago race traditional island sloops by day, then party the night away at Regatta Village Cricket season lasts from March to November, and ongoing commentary of the matches fills the local airwaves.
Look, the great battleship first gets its orders when it is far out at sea, the little sloop knows all in advance.
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Popular with artists, the town is awash with galleries and studios, as well as cafes, award winning restaurants and ancient pubs including the popular Sloop Inn down by the harbour.
This sauce can be purchased in the U.S. I later found out that Erica also produces a mango - based sauce that's not that hot, but wonderfully sweet.The next day, we left St. Vincent on our 43 - foot Hunter sloop for the neighboring island of Bequia (pronounced Beck - way).
The entire fleet consists of 26 owner operator vessels including catamarans, tall ships and a variety of racing and cruising sloops offers a unique sailing experience for the budget, moderate and deluxe traveller.
Or get thee to Bequia, with sloop service twice a week from St. Vincent's.
A 50 foot Beneteau sloop designed by the world famous naval architect Bruce Farr.
As a sailboat owner, you need to find the right coverage for your particular vessel, whether you own a mid-sized sloop or a 72 - foot catamaran.
The Marina inside the harbor has sloops ranging in length from 25 - 51 feet.
All the rest believe in using at least a 40 HP Yamaha for fishing sloops like mine.
You can load onto a one - man Sloop, take voyages, and buy all the things.
The game has you and your crew of hooligans sailing in either a small sloop, or the larger four crew galleon ship.
Nature arts are waiting to visit and explore with all greenery rainforest on the north mountain line coast such as Senaru beauty sloop of Rinjani, possible to trek while the Segenter origin of Mountain people welcome us with their genuine and unique way.
Not spry enough to scamper on a deck or fend a tall sloop from a leeward wreck, I steer my way.
What happens when Mary signals for the 43 Purple Sloop may determine which NFL teams go Super Bowling in Pasadena
Skipper of the 42 - foot sloop Jack Knife, he took his class in the Miami - to - Montego Bay race this year and was the overall winner in the Annapolis - to - Newport race last week.
So reads the last entry in the log of the 32 - foot sloop Bonaventura, Bob Elliot, owner and skipper.
BOATING — DORA IV, a 61 - foot sloop owned by Lynn Williams of Chicago, was the overall and Class A winner of the 50th annual 298 - mile Port Huron - to - Mackinac Island yacht race.
My tentative - milk - drinking 6 year old enjoys her milk the most when she is having cereal and using her 1 $ Sloop — a unique spoon - straw utensil — made by the now defunct company Cereality.
She imagines him in the teak cabin of his Key West — anchored sloop, stubbornly aging.
After three hours of transcribing the 1845 log of the USS Jamestown, a beautiful 32 - foot beam sloop sailing the Atlantic seaboard, I finally decide the letter in question is definitely (maybe) an n. (Each page will be transcribed by several volunteers so my mistakes will be caught.)
Collaborators included theoreticians Alexander Ivanov and Vyacheslav Bryantsev; organic chemists Jansone - Popova, Ilja Popovs and Madeline Dekarske; structural characterizations chemist Radu Custelcean; and separations chemists Frederick Sloop and Moyer.
The class is sailing along like a tight sloop on a fresh sea.
Just after dark on February 16,1779, a kahuna, or holy man, rode a canoe to His Majesty's Sloop Resolution, anchored off the coast of Hawaii.
Using an armed sloop, the Baymen joined together with their African slaves and three companies of a West Indian Regiment to fight the Battle of St. George's Caye.
No trip to our island resort is complete without experiencing an exhilarating day sail with our resident skipper, Jeff Stevens on the hand - crafted sloop named BEAUTY.
Navistar is an ocean going 65 foot sloop which is operated by Chris Love in the Mentawai Islands.
Prima is a 47ft Sloop built for Whitsunday Charters, lovingly presented and maintained.
There are four classes that make ideal pirating ships: The tiny, darty Pinnace class, the swift, deft Sloop class, the balanced, steadfast Brig class, and the formidable Frigate class.
Take for instance the mission entitled, «From the Bottom» — here you're given a lowly sloop and some coins, and then told to earn a total of 150,000.
Our target led us a merry dance, steering his nimble sloop in amongst the looming rock spires by the aptly named Shipwreck Bay, but eventually he made a break for the open sea, and with the wind behind us and our galleon's sails at full spread, we quickly closed the distance.
Robert Rauschenberg Sloop (Spread), 1977 solvent transfer on fabric collaged to wood with crushed can, safety pins and screws 42 x 36 x 1 3/4 inches
To get the feel for why I fit music into my life, watch this video shot on the Clearwater sloop at the festival in 2009:
Even a hundred yards out from the stern of the old steel sloop, the fish at the end of the line looked enormous.
A single - sail sloop moves slower than a galleon running at full speed, but a solo sailor has one major advantage against groups of players: You are much more maneuverable than they are.
When chasing sloops, your best move is to raise your middle sail to about its halfway point.
It takes some getting used to, but it's possible to take out other sloops this way — even if you have two crew members, however, you should never engage a galleon directly.
Recipients included The Centre on Philanthropy, which helps strengthen and sustain the nonprofit sector; Family Centre, which provides support and counseling services for families in crisis; and Bermuda Sloop Foundation, which provides experiential educational programs to public school teens.
It's called the Scallywag Sloop Tree House.