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or currach
as in skiff
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Another unique addition to the outdoor space is a wooden skiff from Martha's Vineyard, which Leon says was one of his dad's favorite anecdotes to share with visitors.
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Over several weeks during the summers of 2020 through 2023, our team spent many hours navigating Mosquito Lagoon in a small skiff designed for shallow depths, recording seagrass presence.
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Exhibits are displayed in six different rooms and a canoe house.
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After lunch, Bud and Stan took a canoe to explore a long draw of water in back of camp while Ed and I strung up the radio aerial and called Cache Lake.
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Pedal your way around the various monuments and heritage sites, and as dusk falls, load your bike into a coracle to cross the Tungabhadra River.
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The Irish claim centers on St Brendan, who in the sixth century is said to have sailed to America in his coracle.
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The drugs were thought to have been brought over by dinghy from Anzio on the mainland, police said.
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His anti-immigration message has shifted from focusing on Polish plumbers to asylum seekers in dinghies.
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That material will then be suctioned up along with seawater and loaded onto large barges, known as scows, which carry a slurry of sediment, rocks and debris.
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The family friends promised to help Wade find work at a seafood processing plant or on a fish-buying scow.
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Although San Francisco Bay is cold, the fitness icon Jack La Lanne once swam to the island pulling a rowboat, and several children also made the swim.
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On high-water days, tourists board a rowboat ferry for the two-minute trip.
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The 150-ton cargo dhow, a type of boat traditionally made of wood, was carrying essential goods when it was struck five nautical miles off the port of Khasab, the report claimed.
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Anything left to mention A 4x4 transfer along a road (and beach, depending on the tide) is the usual way to get there, but the fantasy arrival would be to wade ashore after sailing along the coast on a traditional dhow.
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Despite a raft of Western sanctions, Moscow remains among the world's top exporters of oil and natural gas.
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Despite a raft of Western sanctions, Moscow remains among the world’s top exporters of oil and natural gas.
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