Simple watercraft

Usage examples of flatboats.

The turncoat riverman Pellan, who commands a fleet of flatboats carrying merchants to Trevista, will cooperate fully.

I wondered if the children had been called in to hide when the flatboats passed.

Nets and ropes had been strung across the river and the flatboats were caught in them.

The men on the flatboats were returning fire as best they could, but they were exposed, and more and more of them were falling to the deck or into the water.

The river was backing up behind the flatboats, fifteen meters ahead, and we began to yaw in an eddy.

I understand that Ser Olmy took part in the skirmish with the Brionist flatboats, and helped to save most of the children from the boat that sank.

We shall march across the Knoll to Ruwenda Market on the western side, and there board flatboats for Trevista.

The common soldiers and their sergeants lined the rails of the flatboats, crossbows and other weapons ported.

The men of Labornok traveled from the Citadel in three large flatboats equipped with auxiliary punts.

The flatboats each had three crews of oarsmen to row double-time in sequential shifts, and the big boats fairly flew along the calm waters of the Lower Mutar and Lake Wum.

The more valuable cut lumber and peeled spars were loaded on flatboats and transshipped at any time of the year to the northern yards, whence they were carted away via the Trade Route during the dry seasons.

All of the Labornoki flatboats of the Prince's search-party, as well as those of the garrison, had departed for the Citadel in anticipation of the approaching monsoon.

The Circle showed her a fleet of over a hundred flatboats hurtling down the river with all the speed the oarsmen could muster.

Until the men started seriously to shift the flatboats, she was helpless.

It’s got so flatboats can’t travel alone down the Hio no more, my friend, and if things don’t let up, I reckon the army’s going to have to take some action.