"Santiago, "the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from where the skiff was hauled up.
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
Many fishermen were around the skiff looking at what was lashed beside it and one was in the water, his trousers rolled up, measuring the skeleton with a length of line.
Raw spray whiplashes the skiff, freezing as it strikes .
Then he found the sheet and the sail filled and he brought the skiff onto her course.
Bring him in now and make him fast and get the noose around his tail and another around his middle to bind him to the skiff.
He was moved to capture the skiff, arguing that it might be considered a ship and therefore legitimate prey for a pirate, but he knew a thorough search would be made for it and that might end in revelations. So he stepped ashore and entered the woods.
He untied the skiff at the stern, slipped into it, and was soon rowing cautiously upstream.
The boy was back now with the sardines and the two baits wrapped in a newspaper and they went down the trail to the skiff, feeling the pebbled sand under their feet, and lifted the skiff and slid her into the water.
He settled the sack around his shoulders and put the skiff on her course.
A white wall three feet tall-the massed shirtfronts of a phalanx of king penguins-greets a skiff or Zodiac approaching the beach at St. Andrews Bay.
Each morning he rowed his skiff out into the Gulf Stream where the big fish was.
He was still bearing the pull of the fish across his shoulders but he placed his left hand on the gunwale of the bow and confided more and more of the resistance to the fish to the skiff itself.
WHEN pirates attacked the MV Kition, a Greek tanker, late at night in the Gulf of Aden on May 1st, a Portuguese helicopter scared off the assailants and tracked their skiff to its “mother ship”.
May I have the use of your skiff?
Calrissian helped dispose of several of the guards protecting the prisoners, and piloted the rescue skiff that spirited away the newly liberated Solo and his friends.
Nor if the fish were in the skiff, with all dignity gone, there would be no question either.
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