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n. A boat used for purposes other than recreation, passenger transport, or combat.
Usage examples of "workboat".
Jim and his son take the workboat out again to check the pots in the Pocomoke.
He sighted the workboat moving down San Juan channel, ahead of them, toward the straits.
The bilge pumps were still pumping, but the aluminum workboat carried too much weight and too little power to make it a race.
San Juan, Lopez, then Orcas, and were returning to Sanker when Rachael saw what looked to her like the Sanker workboat in the distance, so they followed after to check it out.
After catching the workboat they had tried to turn them around, but Ben Anderson was a stubborn man.
It was an open wooden workboat about thirty feet long, with twin outboard motors.
The nightmare would be reserved for all of those thousands of people on the fringe of the effects, the ones having to deal with radioactive rain or soot from the North Sea oil fires, for the fishermen and roughnecks and workboat crews swamped by the radioactive base surge, for the kids made sick by contaminated milk and grain and livestock ashore.
The workboat Celtic Maiden was tucked in between the Rosa and the platform, partly hidden by the crane and by the bridge connecting the two platforms Alpha and Bravo.
The twenty-eight SAS men aboard had been packed away out of sight aboard the miserable little workboat, until the spaces below decks were a fetid hell of stink and vomit.
The ice was gone and a Corps of Engineers workboat was plugging along below them, a guy on the foredeck looking at the bank through binoculars.
In the fifth layer, the skid encountered a workboat and the pressure of its shielding coupled with the steady push of the beam started that craft moving as well.
But when the yacht was finally cleared to proceed, and the officers ferried across to the cutter in the inflatable workboat, they admitted that, not only was there no coke on the vessel, but the passengers were all genuine Californian businessmen taking a hunting holiday.
The pumps on the workboat sucked the tank empty in fifteen minutes, a definite no-decompression dive for the boys out there.
The tug was churning along in the teeth of the zephyr, and after it had passed the Davy Jones, the workboat turned inshore.
She is a husky boat, built like a workboat, and if you want to use a small jib like a staysail and go on diesels, she can give you almost three thousand miles at eight or nine knots, depending on the condition of her hull at the time.