Sentence examples for usual boat from inspiring English sources

He writes: "I would just as strongly suggest simplicity in cruising, for I feel that the average small cruiser of 50 to 60 years ago is capable of giving more pleasure for the cost than the usual boat of today".

On the accidental ground that results, Mr. Tansey draws or collages his usual images: boats, mountain climbers, explorers etc. Meant as investigations, rather than fixed images, the works have an improvisational look not enhanced by their drained tones.

In the distance were mainly cruise ships, none of the usual small fishing boats.

This fantasy is a departure from my usual approach to boats, which is to avoid bright work (the lovely varnished wood you see on elegant wooden yachts) at all costs.

In this atmosphere, the ferry boat's usual supplier of fuel oil said this week that it would no long sell fuel to the North Koreans, and 800 conservatives prepared to converge on Niigata to mount a protest.

We sailed out wide as usual, looking for U-boats".

In the Tsugaru Strait it is usual to see 150 boats fishing for tuna.

Offering the usual bevy of banana boats and jet skis, and populated by chubby Europeans and Americans in questionable shorts and sandals, Rodney Bay is in the island's more developed and less beautiful north.

Prof Feng Zhaokui, of the Japan Research Institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, blamed Japan for triggering the row by detaining the trawler and its crew rather than pursuing its usual policy of chasing boats out of the area.

A retailer has airlifted supplies of food to Shetland because the usual ferries and freight boats have been disrupted by the weather.

Smugglers based in Libya reportedly took advantage of ideal sea conditions to launch more boats than usual.