Sentence examples for idle boat from inspiring English sources

"The reef is alive," Captain Pete adds, sitting on his idle boat, beside Mr. Brown.

When their two 128-megabyte Smart Media storage cards fill up, they idle the boat and gingerly transfer the JPEG photo files to a 10-gigabyte digital-wallet hard drive made by Minds at Work, kept in a sealable sandwich bag to avoid water damage.

Some of the mess dates back to the 1970s.When we dock at Bodo City, a small settlement nearby, men are idle and boats are tied up.

We negotiated for some fishing time, which meant our 18-year-old captain idled the boat while we ineffectually cast lures for about 45 minutes.

Having nosed the Burmeister to the bottom of Olkhon's eastern cliffs, rising hundreds of feet above the lake, Sergei idled the boat's engines and let its propellers churn a prop wash that lured in the fish, which we pulled out of the water one after the other.

Jerome is best known for his books Three Men in a Boat,  Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and Three Men on the Bummel.

And everywhere, reporters, scientists and environmentalists paying idle captains for boat rides in pursuit of the latest tip that oil has been seen near the Chandeleur Islands, or down by Breton Sound.

If you are at sea and clear of all vessels, shift into forward detent and let the boat "idle" forward for a little while.

The boat idled, minutes passed.

IN THE bright midday sun, boats idle as fishermen unload the day's haul.

As the boat idled, Seggos retrieved a jar and donned a pair of long rubber gloves.