Whether he had stuck to the leaky catboat during the night or had managed to board the Nelly G.
In that suitcase this gay young Endicott took aboard that catboat down to Peehawket Cove," snapped the other.
Why, there's a story that he went out from Peehawket Cove in a catboat yesterday morning.
According to report, the catboat is a wreck down there on what is called the jaw of Cape Fisher.
Griswold fell silent for the time; but a little later, when the catboat was rushing in long plunges through the entrance to the Wahaskan arm of the lake, he said: "You are going to take him to Mereside?
If it should strike them before they were ready for it, it meant one of two things: a capsize, or an instant driving of the catboat upon the hazard of the island head.
Upon his asking, she related the few and simple facts of the rescue, modestly minimizing her own part in it, and giving her companion in the catboat full credit.
Together they held the catboatdown to its work, sending it ripping through the crested waves and fighting sturdily for every foot of the precious windward advantage.
She was putting the catboat up into the wind, and Griswold stumbled forward to get the broader outlook.
But Margery was laying the course far to the right, though to do it she was holding the catboat cockpit-deep in the smother and taking the chance of a capsize with every recurring gust.
What might have happened if he had been alone; if Margery, taking her place at the tiller and busying herself swiftly in getting the catboat under way again, had not been looking on; he dared not think.
He knew now why she had refused to take shelter under the lee of the island, and why she was holding the catboat down to the edge of peril to keep the windward advantage of the laboring steamer.
Clytie, going free and sailed as Griswold had never seen a catboat sailed before, wallowed out into the smother.
Then, the catboat still hanging in the wind's eye: "Help me get her over.
The catboat began to edge her way out into the cove.
The excited boys in the catboatsaw Mr. MacMasters examining them through a glass.
Whistler had changed their course to bring the catboat nearer to the naval boat, which was slowing down.
It came in through the narrows at top speed, circled around toward the docks, and passed the catboat at a distance.
They lined up before him in a respectful attitude as Captain Bridger got aboard the catboat and shoved her away from the chaser's side.
The exhaust of the auxiliary engine of the catboat was spitting when Frenchy hailed their mates.
If you haven't a care Captain Bridger will get the price of a new catboat out of us.
The boys were hugging the west shore, hoping the sun would soon hurry behind the highlands, when upon turning a bend in the river, a catboat was seen in midstream, headed south.
Suppose we just take Ted off and leave the catboat to drift where she pleases.
On the stern of the catboat were the words: "Nellie B.
I take a swim in the river every morning, and when the catboat came toward me, I thought the captain wanted to ask me some questions.
Then the catboat swung around so that wind caught her sail, and moved off down the river.
In the above illustration a catboat is shown at anchor in a stream which is flowing at a rate of four miles per hour in the direction of the arrow.
In this instance both catboat and dory are moving with respect to the water if the latter be regarded as stationary.
The cod smelt fishy; so did the bait, and the catboat rolled and rolled.
The same cool head and steady nerve that Josiah had admired when the catboat threaded the breakers at the entrance of the bay, now served the same purpose in this more tangled and infinitely more wicked maze.
The mainsail was soon hoisted, and the catboat moved slowly out of the bay.
Some people might not consider it restful to rise at four every weekday morning and sail in a catboat twelve miles out to sea and haul a wet cod line for hours, not to mention the sail home and the cleaning and barreling of the catch.
The catboat swung about on her final tack and stood in for the narrows, the route which the Captain had spoken of as the "short cut.
It may have been and it probably was because he took the best aim he could, that the ball missed the catboat by twenty feet and crashed harmlessly into the jungle beyond.
They were nearing the bend of the river around which the Major had seen the catboat containing General Yozarro and his friends disappear.
Now, through one of those coincidences which occur oftener in this life than is supposed, the catboat had touched shore at the opening of a clearly-marked trail, leading into the interior.
Besides, they have the tender and catboat and can send ashore for help, if they need it.
General Yozarro's tugboat must have come ashore directly behind the catboat of his predecessors.
He must have destroyed the usefulness of the catboatand thus estopped the flight of the fugitives by that means.
They were hoisting the sail of the catboat and the whole party scrambled aboard, as it was shoved from shore.
Every male in the island is said to have some sort of boat, and the catboatseemed to be the choice of the majority.
Several dories and a small catboat were moored in the little harbor.
I’ve seen one thing,--a catboat takin’ on a crazy man out of a knockabout.
At last we saw a catboat just sailing out of a little bay, and bore down on it.
Catboat and sloop tacking out on pleasure bent, tramp steamer ploughing heavily up the coast,--one after another, we came alongside and asked the same questions.
The story had taken all the way in, and as we rowed towards shore, leaving the catboat and launch at the mooring where the knockabout lay, the night was swiftly shutting in.
Sure enough, by midnight a northwest gale fit to twist the life out of a ship was roaring over the water, and the little Ushuaia was pitching and tossing along like a Newport catboat in a cross sea.
The region seems but a narrow space as one looks at the maps, but it is a wide one with labyrinthian channels and hidden bays, the ports of many a missing sloop and catboat of which never a trace will be found to tell the tale of disaster.
Only the hardiest sailors will undertake the handling of a 25-foot catboat where, to quote Capt.
When the catboat came a little nearer we saw that there was only one man in it, and, sure enough, an old blue jersey was tied to the flag halyard.
So I took the shirt and waved it by its sleeves, and the catboat began another short tack.
We both began to shout before the catboat people could possibly have heard us, but we thought that they might see the white shirt flying up and down.
They approached the catboat rapidly where John and Fred sat waiting for them with broad grins upon their faces.
A smallcatboat was a part of the equipment the boys had in order to help them enjoy their summer more thoroughly.
A moment later it struck the Balsam and in answer the little catboat increased its speed.
We all are, I guess," exclaimed John, and a moment later the four boys were standing on the tiny dock waiting for the approaching catboat to come into their little harbor.
An angry gust of wind scudding across the lake, caught the catboat and made her heel far over.
The catboat lay moored at anchor some fifty or sixty feet out from the bank so that it was necessary to paddle to reach her.
The wind steadily increased in strength and forced the sturdy little catboat through the water at an amazing speed.
I sailed a catboat from Boston to Egg Harbor before your mother was born.
The next day our three friends went fishing in a catboat belonging to the young seaman of forty, and they took their dinner with them, although Mr. Locker declared that he did not believe that he would want any.
The catboat has no bowsprit, no jib, and no topsail (Fig.
Third, the catboat has a very bad habit of rolling when sailing before the wind, and each time the boat rolls from side to side she is liable to dip the end of her heavy boom in the water and "trip herself up.
Pulling the bigcatboat across here inside an hour without an air of wind was not exactly play; but can you tell us anything more about these tireless Westerners, Miss Lucille?
There was a fresh breeze blowing, and the broad stretch of water was streaked by lines of frothy white; but we had come out upon a sheltered bay, and a big catboat lay moored beneath a ledge.
I saw that, for inland waters, a tolerable sea was running where the true wind blew straight down the lake, sufficient to endanger the catboat if she drifted without control athwart it.
A glance showed me the catboat sliding out towards open water before the angry white ripples that crisped the little bay, for here the wind, deflected by a hollow, blew freshly off-shore.
Then, without another word, she turned away, and presently the rattle of oars and a gleam of moonlit canvas told that the catboat was returning across the lake.
The next day she and Nell Stewart and Nancy Chester were sitting out on the lawn reading an account of the race when they saw Jimmie's catboat beating about the lake.
The first morning Helen was on the lake after coming to the Inlet her launch passed a small catboat commanded by Jimmie Radwine and flying a Yale pennant from her diminutive masthead.
It was a very tiny catboat that she had learned to manage herself and in which she would tolerate no male hand at the helm except in the stiffest blows.
But Patricia did not move from the tiller, and the catboat glided off.
In the meantime, the catboat had drifted away from the canoe.
But we woke up fin'lly, and the way we flew round that catboat was a caution.
Evidently the catboat was well hidden in the shadow of the island.
The girls saw the catboat round to suddenly, and Mr. Jarley drop the sail.
Suddenly Wyn, looking through the camp spyglass, recognized the patched sail of the Coquette, the little catboat in which Polly Jarley had come to the rescue of the two members of the Go-Ahead Club on that memorable day.
The canvas filled, and with the sheet in one hand and the other on the arm of the tiller, the girl steered the catboat out of the cove and into the rumpus kicked up by the passing squall.
But Polly was too busy getting the catboat ready to answer.
Wyn was the first one ashore when the bow of the catboat touched the landing.
He had no idea to whom he was playing the friend in need when he sailed the catboat down upon the scene of the disaster.
Up went the sail--up, up, up until the unhelmed catboatlay over almost on beam ends.
But in this sea, which so easily swamped the canoes, the catboat was as safe as a house.
When it was lost to view Wyn was troubled by the thought that it might be the same mysterious craft that had followed the catboat the night before.
But before she turned over in the water to swim with Bessie's hand upon her shoulder, the captain of the Go-Ahead Club beheld the catboat rushing down upon them.
They drove their canoes on, however, and Mr. Jarley saw them when he brought the catboat about.
A steam launch was seen off to the left and a catboat skimmed in the same direction with our friends.
One small catboat that was tied to a rickety, home-made landing, after a couple of dives capsized, as if it were a giant flapjack under which a housewife had slid her turning iron.
But when he tacked and the catboat swung her head seaward, they began to observe the far side of the Thimble.
The catboat sailed slowly past the seaward side of the Thimble.
The sail of the catboat drifted out of sight while she stood there undecided.
The three watched the rugged shore very sharply as the catboat beat up the wind--the girls especially giving the Thimble their attention.
Then Phineas can come around in the Miraflame to-morrow morning and tow the catboat home.
They embarked in the catboat and Tom showed his seamanship to good advantage when he got the Jennie S.
All three got ashore the moment the catboat bumped, and they left her where she was and followed the flying Western girl up the wharf and over the stretches of sand towards the lightkeeper's cottage.
Jane Ann Hicks, snatching the coil of line from Ruth's hand, and the next moment she leaped from the deck of the catboat to the wharf.
The breeze was very light; but the sail was raised and had filled, and the catboat was drifting quite rapidly out beyond the end of the dock.
The catboat rocked at its moorings, and there was no trace of how Nita had departed.
Not until the catboat came back to the dock did she move out of the shadow of the boathouse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "catboat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
