The bar is an old fishing skiff.
Off Merling Rock two days before, they had sighted a half-dozen fishing skiffs.
A fishing skiff would be a dangerous opponent if Chalcus commanded it.
A 14-foot fishing skiff costs $15 the first hour and $60 a day, as does a 14-foot catboat (sail).
It lay there like a fresh-caught cod thrown on thefloorboards of a fishing skiff, twitching softly as the nerve endsdied.
The remains of a fishing skiff were half-buried there, and now no one remembered to whom it had belonged.
It was a boat, not a large one like the ceremonial barge, but a modest fishing skiff.
Wooden jetties ventured ten or fifteen metres into the water, with a few fishing skiffs tied up.
They saluted and stood aside respectfully as the pair scrambled into the small fishing skiff.
I thought of offering him Dad's fishing skiff, but I couldn't bring myself to do it.