Sentence examples for at a boatyard from inspiring English sources

He kept the vessel at a boatyard at City Island, which then was a haven for racing yachts.

Maurice Piot, the owner of Maurice's Yacht Service in New Rochelle, grew up in Switzerland, where, at 16, he became an apprentice at a boatyard on Lake Geneva.

Some of the band members held manual jobs to make ends meet: Van Zandt worked construction, Lopez put in time at a boatyard and on commercial fishing boats.

In the mid-1930s, the Krenovs moved to Seattle, where James worked at a boatyard, building yachts and sailed on Puget Sound.

Taking a break from working on their boats in springtime at a boatyard down the block, sailors ambled over at lunchtime for the shipyard special -- a cup of chowder, a hamburger and a cup of coffee.

That Mr. Brodsky's boat can even handle guests speaks well of his perseverance, said those who saw it in its previous decrepit condition at a boatyard in Patchogue, where it sat uncovered for five years.

Ran and Jolie Brise are often moored at Hamble Yacht Services, a boatyard on the Hamble River in Hampshire on England's southern coast.

With the help of a shipwright at the Marblehead Trading Company, a boatyard in Massachusetts, Anderson stripped off several layers of fibreglass to expose the original wood hull, repaired the old spruce mast and keel, replaced the pine deck, refinished the hull, and spent weeks applying eleven coats of paint.

Richard Dunston set up a boatyard at Thorne, on the north bank just below the lock, in 1858, after selling his previous boatyard at Torksey.

A 1996 graduate of Stonington High School where he played soccer, Mr. Piver worked summers at a local boatyard.

His mother wanted him to settle in his job in the office at a local boatyard, where they make the pleasure boats that run up and down the coast.