You can guess what happened when I hired a noisy motorboat at 4pm on Sunday to take our children on to the river for a couple of hours.
Everyone else – from the hundreds of tourists on the opposite Riva del Vin to the swarms of paparazzi following the marital motorboat like a particularly terrifying flotilla – seemed to think it was, all in all, a fairly impressive way to get hitched.
The next morning I find myself hiring a motorboat.
They may be preying on unarmed civilians, but they are also four young men dressed in rags, who have driven hundreds of miles from shore in a tiny motorboat.
One of the challenges was to back a motorboat that was hitched to a pickup truck through a twisting course to the water's edge.
Bikini-clad waitresses serve drinks to guests as a DJ mixes music from a motorboat perched above the dance floor.
We are in a rickety motorboat in Ogoniland, a rural Delta district roughly the size of Berlin.
A motorboat, of just the sort that might be used by pirates or suicide-bombers trying to attack a warship, bobbed on the Pacific swell.
Water skis derive from the aquaplane, a wide riding board towed by a motorboat.
This model later developed into a motorboat and came to be used not only in Japan but in Hawaii and Taiwan.
December 2, 1899 Esher, England September 29 , 1952Loch Ness, Scotland John Rhodes Cobb, (born Dec. 2, 1899, Esher, Surrey, Eng. died Sept. 29, 1952, Loch Ness, Inverness, Scot)., automobile and motorboat racer, first to reach a speed of 400 mph on land.
