catamaran

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Recent Examples of catamaran Sunshine Charters will take you for a spin on their 40-foot catamaran around Round Lake and Lake Charlevoix, through the drawbridge, and out to Lake Michigan. Stacy Conde, Midwest Living, 30 Dec. 2025 SailGP features identical hydrofoil catamaran boats that can go more than 60 miles per hour. Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 10 Dec. 2025 The artwork on the catamaran’s hull depicts a pod of humpback whales swimming alongside bottlenose dolphins, marine mammals regularly seen off Orange County’s coast. Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025 The company offers everything from half-day catamaran sails to three-hour private adventure charters to Masonboro Island. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for catamaran
Recent Examples of Synonyms for catamaran
Noun
  • For even more marine life, Amandira, the Aman yacht, can also be chartered from Amanwana for totally bespoke voyages around the Indonesian archipelago from Komodo National Park to the famed Spice Islands and the legendary waters of Raja Ampat.
    Luke Abrahams, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2026
  • If the yacht starts to sink, the captain will have to tell everyone on board in person.
    Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Renowned British designer Malcolm McKeon, famous for creating elegant, unfussy sailing yachts, penned the exterior, combining the sleekness and balance of a sloop with the volume and comfort of a superyacht.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Now as sailors stepped out into the surf, a great crowd tried to take oars off the first sloop.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The bones belonged to Henry Goodsell, the captain of another 19th-century schooner.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Although rescuers successfully saved the entire crew and their captain (who shared the schooner’s name), the vessel wasn’t so lucky.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The Panamax ketch features a sleek aluminum exterior, with a displacement hull and a distinctive pointed bow.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 July 2025
  • And through such buffetings Constance’s little ketch had run aground.
    Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Blasetti is facing grand larceny charges for allegedly swiping a keelboat from the Dyckman Marina in Inwood around noon Saturday and rowed it to a trimaran moored out in the Hudson River.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 24 July 2025
  • Most of the time, a small keelboat barely exceeds 10 knots of speed (11.5mph).
    Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The ship's captain ordered the crew to the yawl boat.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The resort also has a gorgeous, airy gym with those same views of the volcano, tennis and pickle-ball courts, and solid ocean programming that includes sunrise paddles in the resort’s outrigger canoe, paddle boarding, snorkeling, and diving.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Book a Hawaiian outrigger canoe trip at sunrise to watch dolphins.
    Carla Vianna, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025

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“Catamaran.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catamaran. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.

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