What's the difference between sailboat and sloop?

Sailboat


Definition:

  • (n.) A boat propelled by a sail or sails.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
  • (2) The highest death toll came when a wooden sailboat sank off Kalolymnos.
  • (3) A sailboat tacks over the horizon and, after an hour or so of fast walking, I'm at one end of the beach.
  • (4) Most boaters canoe or kayak the route, though motorboats and sailboats can be used in some sections.
  • (5) Incrediblue , and a selection of other websites , match would-be sailors with yacht owners (from £24pppn for an eight-berth sailboat).

Sloop


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See Cutter, and Illustration in Appendix.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina has a populist president who is doing what all populists do: seeking an issue to divert public attention from her government's real problems, which are more to do with inflation and bondholders than anything a British brig-sloop did 180 years ago.
  • (2) The overwhelming majority of ships that go from Libya to Italy are wooden fishing sloops or inflatable dinghies.
  • (3) TV montage music for the season's highlights Sloop John B – the Beach Boys.