raceabout

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raceabout - a small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail

sloop - a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow

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There's a geek factor here, too, a satisfaction in knowing that you're on the front edge of the smaller-displacement trend that began, oh, when Pierce-Arrow stopped building the Model 6-66 Raceabout (13.5 liters, it was).

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Another was a ground-up 2-seat, aluminum monocoque roadster called Raceabout. The programs show the company's turn-key design, styling, packaging, testing and engineering capabilities to the OEMs.