The phrase "a recent boat" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a boat that has been made or acquired not long ago.
Example: "We decided to take a trip on a recent boat that was launched last month."
Alternatives: "a new boat" or "a newly launched boat".
Michael Roberts, a fisherman from Lafitte, La., said he had to hide tears from his grandson on a recent boat ride in Barataria Bay when he saw oil staining his fishing grounds.
"Not all of a smuggler's talk is believed," says Hashem, a 40-year-old Syrian who found a range of smugglers' numbers online, ahead of a recent boat voyage to Italy.
On the recent boat trip, Dr. Steven L. Goodbred, a geologist and assistant professor at the marine sciences center, used a device that looked like a giant, lead-weighted dart to trap a core sample inside a plastic tube.
"Based on interviews with some of the survivors, there were originally 220 people on the most recent boat, but 22 people died at sea," Tedi Sutardi, a naval commander in East Aceh, said in a telephone interview.
My recent boat trip -- Paris to the D-Day Beaches -- was my first international trip since occupying Japan in WWII.
"The numbers of people on these recent boats indicates a change," said Rear Adm. Carlos Martínez de Anda.
People pay into the thousands – members on a recent Afghan-run boat recently paid up to $5,500 each – to be smuggled across the sea, perfectly aware that they're risking death.
A recent visit by boat to a clandestine preparation site, where the recently harvested animals are boiled and salted, revealed rusted caldrons and hundreds of black plastic bags strewn around bushes and trees in Celestún National Park, a protected biosphere reserve.
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Empty boats are valuable, and during a recent rescue, three Tunisian fishing boats approached while Catrambone was helping get the last men off.
(Full disclosure: this reporter is a recent graduate who occasionally wears boat shoes).
