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Wallace encouraged people — even those who have boated a lot — to hire a seasoned captain when they visit Tahoe and want to get out on the water.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2025

But some researchers have proposed that the earliest migrants from Siberia could have boated along the ice-covered Bering Strait’s shores and down the Pacific coast.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 22, 2022

On summer nights, for decades, unbeknownst to Russell or his family, locals have boated out to this same rock.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2017

I have boated many more memorable fish since then, and several came complete with the following object lessons attached�some of which were learned the hard way.

From Time Magazine Archive

History-makers have boated upon, and camped by, the Missouri for a hundred years, just as the Mississippi has known them for thrice a hundred.

From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)