The defence screen generators howled under the impact of terrific force: the ship was knocked to and fro like an old wooden skiff on a stormy sea.

He would go to the island in a wooden skiff, taking a garbage can full of provisions and art supplies.

Now, at barely half past seven in the morning he was rowed across the oily water in a brightly painted wooden skiff, hardly what he would have chosen to approach a British ship.

At the Museum's working boatyard, visitors can have their hand at constructing a wooden skiff through the Apprentice for a Day program (see below).

The "Apprentice for a Day" program allows visitors to help construct a wooden skiff under the guidance of boatyard staff members.

Steering his wooden skiff between thick clumps of reeds, Kadum Abdullah took one hand off his pole and held it up for a visitor to see.

Most people rent traditional wooden skiffs which are long thin row boats for 2-3 people.

On the municipal beach, Playa Principal, fishermen land their wooden skiffs and sell their catch, which might include red snapper, sea bass and swordfish.

Young couples sit quietly on a concrete wall above the water, wooden rental skiffs ferry families around and groups of men smoke water pipes at impromptu sidewalk cafes.

He was rowing across the river from town, even as she was speaking, in a wooden skiff with seats covered in green velvet and gold fringe.