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2. Bermuda sloop - Wikipedia

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   The term Bermuda sloop has come to be used outside Bermuda, today, to describe any single masted, Bermuda rigged boat, also known as Marconi sloops, although most are far less extreme in their design than was once the norm in Bermuda, with bowsprits omitted, masts vertical and shortened, and booms similarly shortened. Spinnaker booms and ...

3. International One Design - Wikipedia

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   The design of the boat is what is known as a Bermuda sloop, or a Marconi sloop, being single-masted and Bermuda rigged. The result may be considered a reminder of yachting's "Golden age" with the traditional metre-boat's long overhangs, graceful sheer, deep, narrow hull, and lofty rig. An IOD sloop and a 19th-century Bermudian working boat in ...

4. Bermuda 40 - Wikipedia

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   The Bermuda 40 is a quintessential example of Tripp’s art and masterful eye for near-perfect balance. I think it can be safely said that this boat has stood the test of time, and, although the design is now 40 years old, many people, myself among them, still consider the Bermuda 40 one of the most beautiful yachts afloat." [14]

5. Sloop - Wikipedia

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   A Bermuda sloop, the most common version of the sloop in modern sailing vessels [1]: 52 Gaff rigged sloop, 1899. In modern usage, a sloop is a sailboat with a single mast [2] generally having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail abaft (behind) the mast. It is a type of fore-and-aft rig.

6. 420 (dinghy) - Wikipedia

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   The boat is much more simple to sail, yet lacks the performance of the original dinghy due to its extra weight. The Club 420 is used extensively on the youth race circuit in the US, with over 5,000 boats in North America, [6] but is not sailed in most other countries. It cannot be used at I420 class events.

7. Enterprise (slave ship) - Wikipedia

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   Bermuda customs officers called a gunboat and Royal Navy forces to detain the Enterprise ship, and a Bermudian ex-slave Richard Tucker served the white captain with a writ of habeas corpus, ordering him to deliver the slaves to the Bermuda Supreme Court so they could speak as to their choice of gaining freedom in the colony or returning with ...