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What is a sloop?

What is a sloop? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
  2. (military) A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
  3. A sloop of war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.
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You don't want to miss stays and be stuck dead in the water as a frigate fires a full broadside at your small sloop.
Fortunately, the skipper has both dogs, as well as kids and crew, in life jackets aboard the family sloop Off Call.
The yachts shown are two cutters, a schooner, a sloop with Bermuda rig much like our modern Marconi rig, and a lugger.
The rig is a simple deck-stepped mast-head sloop with single upper shrouds and spreaders, double lower shrouds and split backstay.
At a young age, Ramona went out on her father's small sloop and learned everything about a ship and sailing.
While these are expensive boats they offer considerably more room than even a modern beamy sloop of this size.

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