Definition of boatyard
: a yard where boats are built, repaired, and stored and often sold or rented
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Huli Cat came back from the boatyard and is ready to rock & roll.
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Her great-great-grandfather, Hugh McCulloch, was a shipbuilder whose boatyard lay behind the house’s seven acres on the Kennebunk River.
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Home to boatyards, artist studios and the area’s last working waterfront, Stock Island has a quieter, more laid-back charm.
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On a gray, late-winter day, a converted chapel in the Arsenal, the city’s medieval boatyard, hummed with 21st-century activity.
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Nonetheless, Crowhurst managed to persuade a local businessman, Stanley Best, to pay for the building of his trimaran at a Norfolk boatyard.
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The marine industry is concerned the frequent drawbridge closings will block access to the river, canals, marinas and boatyards.
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On Thursday, trade group Marine Industries Association of South Florida reported that boatyards and marinas in Broward and Palm Beach counties suffered minimal damage due to Irma and were open for business.
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Read More: The Caribbean picks up the pieces Carlos De Hernando was staring at a boatyard, where mega-yachts and luxury craft had been flipped, split and strewn across the harbor.
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First Known Use of boatyard
1708
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: a place where boats are built, repaired, stored, rented, or sold
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