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regatta: see rowing rowing, the art of propelling a boat by means of oars operated by hand. Boats propelled by oars (e.g., the galley ) were used in ancient times for both war and commerce. Rowing is now generally used only for propelling small boats or for sport.
..... Click the link for more information. ; sailing sailing, as a sport, the art of navigating a sailboat for recreational or competitive purposes.

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There is no single "yacht type" of boat, rather many types that include sloops, yawls, catamarans, and ketches.
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A high-end Unix-based pSeries server from IBM. Introduced in late 2001, the model p690 incorporates mainframe class self healing capabilities and partitioning to the pSeries (RS/6000) family for the first time. The Regatta also inaugurated IBM's Power4 chip known as "Spinnaker," which contains two processors running at 1 GHz. The copper-based silicon on insulator (SOI) Power4 CPU chips provide increased performance and use up to 66% less power than previous POWER chips.

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an organized series of races of yachts, rowing boats, etc.

Count Bennigsen, being a landowner in the Vilna province, offered his country house for the fete, and the thirteenth of June was fixed for a ball, dinner, regatta, and fireworks at Zakret, Count Bennigsen's country seat.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

We could not, in all conscience, have picked out a better day for our regatta had we had the free choice of all the days that ever dawned upon the lonely struggles and solitary agonies of ships since the Norse rovers first steered to the westward against the run of Atlantic waves.

The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context

He did not know why, but the conversation would not lead in the right direction; he had decided that the first thing to do was to put his arm round her waist; but he could not suddenly put his arm round her waist when she was talking of the regatta which was to be held next week.

Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

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