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  • He found a small, single-masted sailing vessel of some forty or fifty tons, a sloop or bawley-he would not be certain which.

    Movie Night 2010

  • Mr. Morgan armed his single-masted sailboat with the latest in high-tech gear, and he avoided the need for repairs by outfitting it with two of everything: two sets of sails, two rudders, two satellite navigational systems and two machines to convert salt water into fresh water.

    Dodge Morgan, first American to sail solo, nonstop around the world, dies at 78 2010

  • Mr. Morgan armed his single-masted sailboat with the latest in high-tech gear, and he avoided the need for repairs by outfitting it with two of everything: two sets of sails, two rudders, two satellite navigational systems and two machines to convert salt water into fresh water.

    Dodge Morgan, first American to sail solo, nonstop around the world, dies at 78 2010

  • Mr. Morgan armed his single-masted sailboat with the latest in high-tech gear, and he avoided the need for repairs by outfitting it with two of everything: two sets of sails, two rudders, two satellite navigational systems and two machines to convert salt water into fresh water.

    Dodge Morgan, first American to circumnavigate globe alone, dies at 78 2010

  • The Providence could carry an enormous stretch of sail for a seventy-foot, single-masted ship.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • The Providence could carry an enormous stretch of sail for a seventy-foot, single-masted ship.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • Inside the niche stood a single-masted sailing boat, an iceboat, resting on long titanium runners.

    Ice Hunt Rollins, James, 1961- 2003

  • And from out of the night, over the roofs of Trewissick from the dark inland moors, came sailing again the phantom ship of Cornwall, single-masted, square-rigged, with a dinghy behind, that had sailed up out of the midnight sea in the haunting.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

  • It was a ship: a black ship, single-masted, square-rigged, with a dinghy behind.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

  • And from out of the night, over the roofs of Trewissick from the dark inland moors, came sailing again the phantom ship of Cornwall, single-masted, square-rigged, with a dinghy behind, that had sailed up out of the midnight sea in the haunting.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

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