boatmanship
Americannoun
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SAT Celebration of creativity and boatmanship, racing by 100 colorful milk carton boats of all shapes and design built by local children, adults, families and businesses, with exhibits, food vendors, Seafair personalities, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2017
It was buried in a box, just where he’d left it, between the pages of a book on boatmanship he’d been given on his thirteenth birthday.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Ishmael went up the wom-out stairs to the room he’d slept in for so many years and dug the book on boatmanship out of its box in the closet.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
With superb boatmanship he threaded the narrow, tortuous channel which no craft larger than a whaleboat could negotiate, until the shoals and patches showed seaward and they grounded on the quiet, rippling beach.
From A Son Of The Sun by London, Jack
Certain it was that The Big Mallard227 was the supreme test of courage and boatmanship.
From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Lockhart, Caroline
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