Immediately after the storm, local watermen from neighboring islands came into our harbor, skiff after skiff, filled with water, food and supplies.
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It is best on a night when the moon is thin to lie alone in your metal skiff to listen for your skiff to tick and slur with the swim of the snakes' thick bodies.
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It looked like the king's skiff in a royal amusement ride.
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Its scale will make the average aircraft carrier look like a skiff.
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The men posed on the side of the skiff with big smiles.
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This 1916 Crane Simplex Holbrook Skiff was designed to look like a boat.
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Let's start with the SCIF (pronounced skiff), since it's an unfamiliar acronym for many.
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Yesterday I encountered Captain Ahab as he waited for his skiff to carry him away.
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Hew Locke adorns model vessels — from an imperial galleon to a refugee skiff — in flotsam.
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Meanwhile, preliminary sailing began in the men's 49er and women's 49erFX two-person skiff classes.
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I keep one in my car, on my skiff, and of course, in the kitchen.
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The ship will tow kayaks and paddleboards, and skiff excursions offer wildlife watching up close.
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We slid over the side of our skiff and stood in the knee-deep water.
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They placed her at the front of the skiff, hidden from view under a white tarpaulin.
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Some hunters can spend hours on 2500-foot skiff boats that can require lots of fuel.
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Also like stepping away, like getting on the little skiff and driving out and seeing it.
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Hawaiian time and got into two life rafts, three work boats and a skiff, officials said.
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They had packed an ice chest with cold Asmara beers, which we loaded onto the skiff.
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Witnesses told The Washington Post that several Republican protesters entered the SCIF (pronunced "skiff") with their phones.
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I still had a boat — a simple 16-foot skiff — and plenty of fishing rods and gear.
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They wrestled the small skiff through a tangle of overlapping lines, pulling it to the narrow dock.
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It involves an aluminum skiff, "smudging" (ritualistically cleansing the body and spirit with Labrador tea smoke), a .
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Workers use a mechanized pulley system to hoist the slimy stuff up from the skiff to the farm.
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Instead, the Holbrook Skiff, which was a one-off that Leno now owns, mostly just looks good near water.
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Two days later, a Spanish helicopter deployed as part of the mission spotted the skiff off the Somali coast.
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A few days after the storm, Carol steered her skiff toward the island's uppermost tip to survey the damage.
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Goral and Skiff are partnering with Helen Keller Services to test Furenexo's products and get feedback from the deaf community.
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" The Dispatch, based in Washington, begins with 8 full-time staffers — "a pirate skiff with limited provisions amidst choppy waters.
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Transducers in the floor so when it shakes, it feels like you're really on a skiff moving through the air.
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The defendants have claimed that the two pirates who were killed in the raid on their skiff had led the operation.
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The winner is the 1916 Crane Simplex Holbrook Skiff, which has appreciated in value by 50% over the past five years.
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The Skiff is a true head-turner, but how does it compare to the two other cars when it comes to appreciation?
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The thing might not stick to everything, but there was hardly a surface on my (very untidy) skiff that wouldn't hold it.
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Kait and her various combat partners load up on a wind sailing skiff and take to both snowy wilds and desert dunes.
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Gears 5 is one of the most visually stunning games ever crafted, and the skiff sections show it off at its best.
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Taking design inspiration from a yacht, the Skiff has a center door along the side and even a nonfunctioning propeller in the back.
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The real challenge came when we went out on Travis Johnson's fishing skiff for some aerial shots of the bayous near Jean Lafitte.
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Craft beers were delivered several times a week in a 15-foot skiff from the North Haven Brewing Company, on a nearby island.
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A Spanish ship was sent to intercept the skiff, but the pirates started to fire on the boat and threatened to kill their hostage.
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Sailing back and forth across the snowy and sandy landscapes on your trusty skiff is a fun break from the otherwise nonstop gritty action.
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I've been using — and dropping — mine on my skiff where it has sat and lived all summer long through rain, salt, and even hail.
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" Looping back near the blueberry farm later that morning, we encountered three men on a green Southern Skimmer skiff painted with the name "Angler.
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In the two-person 49er skiff event at the 2012 Olympics, Outteridge and Iain Jensen dominated Burling and Blair Tuke to take the gold.
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Dalton met secretly at his home with the 26-year-old, who has won Olympic gold and silver medals in the 49er skiff class.
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As the skiff started to sink, the troops arrested the seven remaining pirates and rescue Évelyne, who was transported by helicopter to a French ship.
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The Ashland fired two rounds at the skiff with a 25mm gun, setting it ablaze and forcing the pirates to abandon ship, the Navy said.
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Yet, while the market for people with disabilities is quite large, Brian Goral and Eric Skiff saw an absence of innovation in disabilities-assistive technology.
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On Friday, he drove around Washington, N.C., with a metal skiff lashed to the top of his minivan, responding to pleas posted online for help.
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The 5th Fleet statement said the US warship "located a dhow transferring covered packages to a skiff" on Monday and boarded the vessel on Tuesday.
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I&aposve worn it tinkering around in the yard, working on my skiff, and on chilly fall days on the beach before and after surfing.
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Our guides had brought along an original wooden skiff from the early days of Colorado River rafting that was rowed by the boat-maker's grandson.
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A SCIF (pronounced "skiff") is designed to prevent electronic eavesdropping by foreign intelligence services that target lawmakers with access to classified information and lax security protocols.
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Word of the Day : any of various small boats propelled by oars, sails or a motor _________ The word skiff has appeared in 18 articles on nytimes.
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Connections were made, friend to friend, and eventually to a group from Texas that arrived at Ms. Margarum's front door in a skiff on Friday morning.
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As we strained from our boat to catch a glimpse of the dolphins, we saw a group of monks in saffron robes sitting in a skiff.
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From the bank of the Irrawaddy, the only movement visible near the unfinished dam site was a slender fishing skiff that drifted lazily on the current.
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The two retirees had been navigating for five days when the attackers approached their ship in a wooden blue skiff and started firing on the couple's boat.
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This indicated that "the skiff (small boat) that engaged in an attack on the Galicia Spirit using small arms was also carrying a substantial amount of explosives".
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He credited his sons Yago and Klaus, representing Argentina in the men's 49er two-person skiff, for helping him build his strength and confidence to compete again.
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"There was a sustained exchange of fire before the skiff with several armed people on board broke off and changed course away from the MV," it added.
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"I think we do not care too much about the health issues," said Erik Heil, skipper of Germany's Olympic entry into the 49er two-man skiff class.
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Let the characters speak more, not just as we skiff across the dunes, but in the context of the rockets they're assembling or the weapons they're using.
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The man led them to a skiff, gave Arcentales a GPS tracker and instructed the pair to meet another boat at a location 50 nautical miles away.
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Mr. Cauchi, the captain, worried that we might miss the fishing skiff crammed with 36 Rohingya if it chose to hug the coast on its journey south.
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Morning shoppers — with bags of vegetables, butcher cuts and seafood — stake out tables with red-and-white-checked cloths under a skiff hanging from a wood-beamed ceiling.
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Now living in Baytown, he called a friend, Jason Brumley, and loaded up his 21-foot Carolina Skiff with bottles of water and a roll of trash bags.
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The only racing on Monday was in the men's 49er and women's 49erFX two-person skiff classes with three races each on open ocean courses outside Guanabara Bay.
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They will sail in a new Olympic class, the 49erFX, a high-performance skiff that looks more like a high-wire act and is open only to women.
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After working on their boss's skiff, they would meet up and talk for hours about their children and their plans to someday buy a boat of their own.
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But we had word that a wooden skiff crammed with 36 Rohingya was chugging its way past the camber of Myanmar, along the isthmus of Thailand, to Malaysia.
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To demonstrate these methods, he lowers himself into a skiff sitting in the slender canal bordering his land and shovels up mud from the deepest part of the water.
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The three deceased sailors' bodies were not on the skiff when it was found, but their passports were found on board, said the Coast Guard said in a statement.
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Two of the crew members told investigators that they swam back to the ship to get the skiff, a small utility boat, attached to the back of the vessel.
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The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which coordinates shipping in the Gulf of Aden area, said on its website the pirates had used a skiff to approach the vessel.
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Last year, I took a wonderful safari here with my family, and on one of our first afternoons, we glided along a shallow lake in an aluminum-hulled skiff.
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It was carried out by two suicide bombers who sailed a bomb-laden skiff alongside the Cole during a routine refueling stop in Aden, Yemen, then blew themselves up.
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And check out this insane camping story out of the Everglades, where two light-tackle sport fishermen were chased down in their skiff by a giant Burmese python. Whoa!
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Normally when a redfish guide pulls a skiff into an area he wants to explore, fish bolt from it, at least until the guide cuts the motor and begins poling.
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It would have taken so little effort to fill in some of those details with a shot of Euron spotting Missandei's skiff and a few throwaway lines about recognizing her.
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Moments later, when I stood on a skiff approaching the Imperial facility, I felt the heat from the lava below, while the smoky smell of Mustafar's atmosphere filled my nostrils.
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My guide was Hugo Groeneveld, a retired coastal engineer, who narrated a bit of city history as he motored our small skiff through the winding, watery tunnels underneath the city.
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During my visit, I joined a young man named Ikatipe, his wife, and their two teen-age daughters on an excursion upriver, in a skiff with an outboard motor attached.
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And, if you want to step it up a bit further, Bōte also offers theRover Aero Classic, a stouter, micro-skiff-stand-up-paddle-board hybrid that's outboard-engine-ready.
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In 1975, he invented the poling platform, which is above the engine at the stern and used to stand on and propel a skiff boat across flats and sight fish.
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Two people swam to the back of the Conception to get the skiff, then collected the other two members and made it to a nearby fishing boat, the Grape Escape.
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The most plausible explanation is that while the remnants of the transport fleet were limping away, Euron's fleet happened across the skiff Grey Worm mentioned, the escape ship Missandei was boarding.
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The USS Ashland, a landing dock ship, was participating in anti-piracy operations off the coast of Djibouti in April 2010 when it came under fire from pirates in a skiff.
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Back then, as she used a small skiff to collect water samples along the reef, its structure was so dense that it could be a challenge not to bump into it.
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And, if you want to step it up a bit further, Bōte also offers the Rover Aero Classic, a stouter, micro-skiff-stand-up-paddle-board hybrid that's outboard-engine-ready.
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Mr. Jurisich, 56, was steering his 26-foot skiff on Adams Bay, between the west bank of the Mississippi and the Gulf, where his family owns the leases on oyster beds.
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They eventually launched a skiff, picked up the two crew members who were still in the water, and were rescued by a nearby boat called the Grape Escape, the report said.
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The U.S.S. Cole, a Navy destroyer, was attacked by suicide bombers in an explosive-laden skiff as the destroyer was preparing to refuel in the Yemeni port of Aden on Oct.
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Burling, who won Olympic gold last year in the 49er skiff class with fellow crew member Blair Tuke, has exuded a disarming calm and has now won a place in yachting history.
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A week ago, I was on a skiff in Everglades humidity, deep into the park, up the Lostmans River near where Edgar Watson kept his claim, raised suspicions and met his fate.
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The $6,000 he could hope to make a year, on the skiff and working on tuna ships for a month or two at a time, does not stretch far in Ecuador's economy.
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Arcentales and Quijije were told to step into the second boat, a skiff called the Yeny Arg, manned by the two other Guatemalans, Giezi Zamora, a mechanic, and Hector Castillo, a fisherman.
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The NYK Group's Anti-Piracy Curtain features dangling hoses with high-pressure nozzles that thrash wildly alongside the ship, blasting away even the most adept climber and flooding a skiff in minutes.
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His wife was abducted for two days in what French media described as horrendous conditions before being rescued by Spanish naval forces in a raid on a skiff off the coast of Yemen.
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Rowing and sailing out in a leaky skiff, he spent weeks at a time among Horn's many living things, turning his boat over for shelter when need be, surrendering to the island's way.
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A WFP spokeswoman said an unidentified armed group "abroad a skiff had opened fire and attempted to take over" the vessel that was some 60 km (38 miles)) off the coast of Hodeidah.
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He motored back to the weather-beaten docks in the Investor's skiff, returning the next afternoon with a can of gasoline to set the craft ablaze before speeding back to town and then vanishing.
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Everglades National Park, Florida (CNN)Balancing on the deck of a National Park Service skiff over Florida Bay, US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell held a clump of seagrass collected from the underwater meadow below.
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You could be on a 12-foot canoe, a 20-foot skiff, or a 70-foot yacht, and there will always be a shortage of cupholders in the right place at the right time.
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On our first morning, Mr. Hartman and I met at 83794:21422, drove to the boat ramp in Arroyo City (one gas station, lots of fishing boats) and launched his skiff under cover of darkness.
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I specifically wanted to test this little new-age boombox on my skiff, an open fishing boat with little more than an outboard and a 12-volt battery for navigational lights and a bilge pump.
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The stewards of this corner of the Bronx look back to when a seafood dinner had to be hearty enough to sate a skiff-full of ravenous crab fisherman emerging from the roiling North Atlantic.
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The man told the crew of the 618-foot-long bulk carrier Nikkei Verde that he and three companions had set out from Colombia's Pacific coast more than two months earlier in a 23-foot skiff.
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One such slave was a plasterer named William B. Gould, who famously rowed down the Cape Fear River in a skiff with several others in 1862, eventually reaching Union ships blockading the city from the Atlantic.
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They only returned to Olympics training less than a year ago and then had "four or five" regattas to get back up to speed again with the skiff before the test event at the Enoshima Yacht Harbour.
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Outteridge, who is an Olympic gold medallist in the physically demanding 49er skiff, slipped and shot off the back of his "flying" high-tech catamaran as it went through a high-speed manoeuvre on Bermuda's Great Sound.
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My excellent but exhausted and overworked team did as much as we could, but soon felt like we were floating around in a beat-up old skiff, trying to bail out the ocean with a leaky bucket.
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His loves too were expressed in sea-language: post coitum "the eight limbs loosen, like tentacles in water"; in the morning he would lie watching "the fall and rise/of suspiring linen, like a skiff at anchor".
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Four consecutive weekends (that is, at least one 8-plus-hour day each weekend) saw me out on my little skiff, blasting everything from Sidney Bechet to Elvis Costello and The Imposters to NPR news (for good measure).
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He is charged with masterminding an attack by two suicide-bombers who steered an explosives-laden skiff into the side of an American naval destroyer, the USS Cole, in Aden harbour in 2000, killing 17 American sailors and wounding many more.
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Further along the narrow hull of the catamaran is Blair Tuke, Burling's Olympic partner in the 49er skiff, who both cycles and adjusts the rake of the foils which allow the boat to lift out of the water and "fly".
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Getting off of the beach, my first appreciation of the way the Rackham AeroBōte is outfitted is the fact that it accommodates both a push pole (pictured above, sold separately) like any good flats skiff would, and a paddle (included).
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Sure, a full-sized skiff can accommodate more than one person, and theRackham AeroBōteisn't cheap, but if you like to fish, and you live anywhere near a good, calm fishing hole, fresh or salt, there's nothing better for your adventuring.
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Though the Allegro movement begins shakily, the musicians gather strength and press onward, like rowers in a skiff on rough water, keenly aware of yet rarely looking at one another, determined to maintain the pace set by the swiftest rower.
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The idea is to pole a flats skiff, gondola-style, or wade on foot in a promising area, spot a fish or a group of them, then cast, retrieve or "strip," your fly, and, if you get a strike, set the hook.
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The Nauset Sea Scout Ship Explorer Club, under the direction of skipper Dean Skiff, brought out its long surfboat, giving members of the public a chance to see if they could have rowed out to aide in the rescue of the attack survivors.
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Disaster survivors rescued from rubble -- in Kenya and beyond He said the other three died at sea and turned over their passports, but their bodies were not on the skiff when it was found by the merchant ship, the Coast Guard said.
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I've had mine for two years, during which time I've left them in the rod holders of my skiff on the marsh, dropped them in the sand, mud, sea, and countless times onto fiberglass decks, and I haven't even cleaned them once.
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Here, a fisherman pushing a skiff turns the gold into a lake's surface and the white into a mist hanging heavily above it; there, a temple's projecting roof makes the gold read simply as a shadowed furrow in an unbroken cloud cover.
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A beaming Burling, with the normally closely-guarded silver trophy standing behind him, said it was "impossible to compare" the victory with the gold medal he and fellow crew member Blair Tuke won in Rio de Janeiro last year in the 49er skiff class.
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Sure, a full-sized skiff can accommodate more than one person, and the Rackham AeroBōte isn't cheap, but if you like to fish, and you live anywhere near a good, calm fishing hole, fresh or salt, there's nothing better for your skinny (or backwater) adventuring.
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Pity, then, poor li'l Tana Weed (a very good, very brave Kate Thulin), a wistful 16-year-old with dreams of crossing the river that keeps her from her true love, Debo (Maki Borden), a skiff-riding swain with a passion for old cars.
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The only way the Cameroonian made it out of the town was by handing over about $750 dollars in exchange for a night-long ride in a skiff packed to double capacity through waters controlled by paramilitary groups and the feared Clan Usaga drug trafficking gang.
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In one display, scenes from "Down by Law" (19853) show the three jail escapees, played by Tom Waits, John Lurie and Roberto Benigni, paddling a skiff through the bayou as Mr. Müller's camera slowly navigates through thickets of trees that both reveal and conceal the men.
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I've been all across Africa and I've never seen so many crocs, sunbathing their scaly selves on the beach, slithering around in the sediment-rich, chocolate-milk-colored water and waiting until the last possible instant to slowly sink away before our skiff bumped into them.
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You explore large vistas on a skiff, a mechanically implausible vehicle that's like a cross between a kite and a Ski-Doo, and the sheer physics of the thing are entertaining enough to make you want to see as much of the world as you can.
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When it was still afloat the next day, the killer, who authorities said was observed by numerous witnesses motoring back and forth between the Investor and the docks in a skiff, returned and set the boat ablaze, reducing the crime scene and most of the bodies to charred ash.
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Fishing from a stand-up paddle board (or "SUP") can be highly productive: You're stealthier, you don't draw nearly as much water as you would in a skiff (or even most kayaks), which means you're able to work your way into skinnier water, and you're kept high and dry, as opposed to wading.
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Fishing from a stand-up paddle board (or SUP) can be highly productive: You're stealthier, you don't draw nearly as much water as you would in a skiff or even most kayaks, which means you're able to work your way into skinnier water, and you're kept high and dry, as opposed to wading.
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As they set sail, they were briefly waylaid by a handful of activists aboard a tiny skiff who hoisted a yellow flag emblazoned with the Identitarians' mark — the Greek letter Lambda, a symbol used by the ancient Spartan warriors who battled Persians in 480 BC — and then threw flares off the ship into the air and sea.
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Similarly, "A Boat Cast Adrift" (Chapter 51), which shows Genji's grandson, Niou, and Ukifune, his lover, sitting alone in a skiff on the Uji River, appears in two screens along with scenes from other chapters, while a two-panel treatment from 1966 by Sata Yoshiro (1922-1997), shows only the boat and its nearly life-size passengers, who now recline.
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New Jersey and Staten Island are separated by the Kill Van Kull, a tidal strait heavily used by shipping vessels on the way to and from the busy cargo terminals in Newark and Elizabeth, N.J. The thief in his little skiff would have cut across those shipping lanes in the dark without lights, eventually crossing the state line and entering the routes of the Staten Island Ferry as he approached the terminal.
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