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
The four men did not resurface after diving from a pleasure craft named Big Bill’s.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 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
On October 22 gale winds ripped display signs from buildings downtown, tossed houseboats around on Lake Union, and necessitated the rescue of thirty-three people from various storm-tossed pleasure craft on Puget Sound.
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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