pleasure craft
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During the day, Catalina is filled with ferries, pleasure craft, cruise ships and cargo vessels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
Some 1,000 ships, including pleasure craft and fishing vessels, took part in the rescue - a key moment of the war.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2023
They had been aboard a pleasure craft, along with 19 other people, when it was hit by a fierce storm on Lake Maggiore on Sunday evening and swiftly sank.
From Reuters ● May 31, 2023
The winds and seas were rough, and Mr. Wiley fell from the 23-foot pleasure craft into the Chesapeake Bay.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2021
At the northern end of the lake, hundreds of pleasure craft were converging on the same spot.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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