skiff
A small, simple, shallow-draft boat.
skiing/wakeboarding boat
Low profile, pleasure boats with minimal deadrise specifically designed for waterskiing and/or wakeboarding.
Skiffs, Aluminum, and Utilities
The Starcraft 18 footer is a high-quality aluminum boat. Aluminum is a material you may want to consider along with their fiberglass cousins.
skiff - A small boat.
sloop - A style of sailboat characterized by a single mast with one mainsail and one foresail. Also see cutter.
Skiff
A small boat.
Slack
1) A line that is loose. 2) To ease a line.
skiff - A small boat used by coast watermen for the conveyance of passengers.
skin - The outside or inside planking of a vessel.
rolled-edge skiff
A fishing boat designed to run in coastal waters constructed of a simple, one-piece fiberglass hull without a top deck and characterized by rounded top edges without true gunwales.
Next to the Norse skiff and its descendants, perhaps the oldest type of boat in northern waters is to be found in Holland, where the conditions of navigation have hardly altered for centuries.
"PINKIE" Sometimes applied to a sharp sterned skiff, but more properly to a stern projection of the gunwales to a sharp point above a narrow transom, originally to carry a coat of arms or other decoration.
The hull form is almost Whitehall rowing skiff-like in its lines. Call it a modified gig. That sounds good. The entry is fine and there is minimal overhang aft with an almost vertical transom.
Its modern-day origins may lie with the Sydney Harbour 18ft Skiffs and date from at least the late 1980s. The tack of the sail may be attached at the bow like a genoa but is frequently mounted on a bowsprit, often a retracting one.
Another method, as practiced on a St. Lawrence skiff that was badly checked and rotten in places, is thus described by a veteran boatman who made the successful experiment : ...
underwayA boat in motion. utility boatA type of small, open powerboat, constructed of either fiberglass or aluminum, with minimal features. These include jon boats, skiffs and work boats.
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when in use sister ship Another ship of similar class, line, design, or name skeg A triangular, vertical projection below the after end of a boat's keel, designed to increase the boat's lateral resistance and directional stability skiff A ...
Mail is addressed in care of the agent for the next port to be entered SKIFF technically, a flat-bottomed boat, but often used to name any small boat for rowing, sculling, ...
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