What is "boatyard"

Usage examples of "boatyard".

I mentioned to you that our new towboat was due to come out of the boatyards about that same time.

An hour later the Coast Guard had completed its final inspection of the craft and the towboat was chugging out of the boatyard area.

Big expensive boats, built to high standards in top British boatyards, sailing away out of Britain to shipbrokers in Antibes and Antigua.

On spring weekends they bought plants at greenhouses in the suburbs and went to boatyards on City Island or the North Shore to help friends get their modest yachts seaworthy.

As the ship with me as its unwilling passenger turned down the narrowing estuary of a little river, I saw docks and quays, warehouses and boatyards, such as you might find anywhere along the coast from Col to Toremal, where a seaside Lord has turned his own modest anchorage into a handy base for passing ships.

Ray Rawson had told me he worked with Johnny in the boatyards just after the war started, which had to be sometime in 1942.

A short time later the two of them went their separate ways, Mildred to the factory, and Kitty to the boatyard.

It was also being said now that they were buying that pit lad a share in the boatyard, and he not being apprenticed to it for a year yet.

Kate had kissed him and hurried out of the pub, almost running down the road to the boatyard until the banging of the box against her leg forced her to slow down, regain control of herself and her breathing, but now she was here, and all seemed deserted, and so dark and quiet, except for the generator.

They had captured many of our boatmakers, and had them at work in the boatyards of Thebes.

A jagged bolt of lightning crashed down, striking the mast of one of the ships in the boatyard.

My daddy used to work at Foley's boatyard, that's now Gulf Breeze Marina.

I had a polite look at it, then followed a back lane through a harbourside neighbourhood of small boatyards and other marine businesses, and up one side of a residential hill and down the other until I found myself in the tranquil hamlet of Borth-y-Gest, a pretty village of brick villas on a horseshoe bay with gorgeous views across Traeth Bach to Harlech Point and Tremadoc Bay beyond.

Cam had taught him how to make the frames on an old miter box at the boatyard.

When he and Captain Jake went to the Paxmore Boatyard to inspect the refitted Jessie T they found the old name painted out, and in its place a crisp new board with the simple letters Eden.