What is "powerboat"

Usage examples of "powerboat".

We had eighteen powerboats shifting two ton of heroin through Puerto Banus per month.

Hempstead Bay, powerboats and sailing craft headed into the yacht club or continued south toward Roslyn Harbor.

Out on the river, in a sea of blackness, the running lights of powerboats shone red and green, motionless on the becalmed waters.

Jao escort ships swung low out of the clouds, taking shots at four fiberglass powerboats fighting the waves.

Jao necks, trying to spot the remaining powerboats while the trawler heeled across the waves and began to pick up speed.

I rented one of those big powerboats that have enough engine to drive a supertanker.

The first folders were filled with accounting-payroll expenses, utility bills, food bills, leasing charges for the camp horses and powerboats, art supplies, laundry bills, and the like.

Next came a brace of powerboats, sleek and muscular-looking, bristling with electronics.

Gazing at the powerboats straddling his port and starboard sides, Hatch could see the occupants staring back.

All manner of contemporary river craft plied the languorous yet muscular stream: sailboats whose ultralight fabrics responded automatically to shifts in wind speed and direction,hovercraft built up out of ultralight composites, MAG barges which utilized the minute differences in electric charge between air and water to lumber along several centimeters above the surface of the water, big powerboats, tiny super fast pleasure craft, and land-based skimmers.

He'd spent most of his disposable income on his car and that sweet little powerboat that was docked down in Virginia Beach right this minute.

The hull looked to be a medium-sized powerboat, a forty-footer, cut down to a flush deck.

Loren and Sandecker were meeting with Mexican Internal Police investigators beside the Pierce Arrow when news of Pitt's rescue came from the owner of a luxurious powerboat that was tied up at the nearby fuel station.

With Steed he got into a small powerboat to circumnavigate the island, and it was apparent that even the small wake thrown by this boat imperiled the shoreline, for its waves cut at the vital line where the impacted sand met water.

On a busy summer's day, as many as 1,600 powerboats may be outon the water at any one time, a good many of them zipping along at up to 40 mph with water-skiers in tow.