As some of the mail-boat skipperswill probably see you and mention it, you will call and report yourself to the Commandant and the customs on your way down the coast.
Yankee skippers have far too much NOUS to allow their hands to grow saucy in consequence of division among the after-guard.
The sails were hardly fast before a boat from each of the ships was alongside with their respective skippers on board.
Such whaling skippers as our late commander hated him with ferocious intensity; and but for his Maori and half-breed bodyguard, I have little doubt he would have long before been killed.
Our Dutch skippersare not shipwrecked like these bungling Italians.
Take me thither,' said I, and I let my guide know the custom of our Dutch skippers to hoist flowers to the masthead when they are courting a maid.
The Portuguese neglected the golden opportunity, ocean navigation not being in their way as yet; their skippers preferred "to hug the African shore.
In the club, after all had been made secure, the skippers and managers of trading houses gathered to discuss the weather.
Their skipperswere Americans, the Kellogg's master as dark as a negro, burned by thirty years of tropical sun.
Yankee schooners in the harbor, whose skippers had a monopoly of the trade in flour and notions.
With the exception of the Federal Consul, and Yankee skippers in the port, and a small knot of shop-keepers, interested in the American trade, all countenances are beaming with joy at this intelligence.
The boarding-officer, who was a bit of a wag, told them that we had made the experiment, but that the Yankee skipperswere so lean and tough, that the giants refused to eat them.
These shameless Yankee skippers make a common practice of converting their ships into brothels, and taking their mistresses to sea with them.
The boats sped on, the rival skippers striving to gain the lead.
The skippers of each were at the wheel as the players took their places, and each boat carried a blackened and greasy mechanician, as looking after high-powered motors was no simple matter.
The Confederates had very few naval men on the river, but many of their Mississippi skippers were game to the death.
A typical result may be seen in the fate of the fourteen "rams" which were absurdly mishandled by fourteen independent civilianskippers with two civilian commodores.
The result was that the Dutch skippers became exceedingly anxious to make the very utmost of the favourable winds, which carried them eastward in the direction of the western coasts of Australia.
If her captain is like the rest of the Columbia River skippers I met, I have no doubt that she will be patched up again before next high-water and started off for Portland.
He had spent most of his life on the Snake and lower Columbia, but he seemed to know the rapids and canyons below the Canadian line almost reef by reef, and all of the oldskippers I had met by reputation.
Doubtless Clarence must be trying every device known to ambitious racing skippers in order to just coax a little more speed from his engine; but it was now keyed up to top-notch, and utterly incapable of doing a particle better.
We always make our skippers own a piece of the vessels they command, so they will not be tempted to rob us, for in robbing us they rob themselves.
Cappy always declared that any clerk can negotiate successfully a charter at the going rates in a stiff market, but skippers are, in the final analysis, the Genii of the Dividends.
Back home there were a dozen masters who knew his people, who knew him and his proved ability; but out here on the Pacific Coast the skippers were nearly all Scandinavians, and Matt had to show them something besides his documents.
It isn't often weskippers out here meet one of our own.
Remember, Matt, I always make my skippersown a piece of the vessel they command.
Cappy Ricks will go over the list of his skippers due for promotion into a larger ship and more pay, and right away he'll start Captain Noah's successor for Cape Town to bring the ship home.
Before Jerry's desk the skippers of all nations came and went; to him there drifted inevitably all of the little, intimate gossip of the shipping world.
Sign a telegram Blue Star Navigation Company and these infernal skippers think a clerk sent it; but when they know the boss is on to them they'll jump lively.
That's because t'owd boy's skippershave held their berths ower long.
In the matter of engaging new skippers or discharging old ones Mr. Skinner had to be very careful.
No admiralissimo ever was a greater hero to a junior midshipman than the best Yankee skippers were to the men before the mast.
But such mates and skippers always were exceptions; and, as a general rule, no better crews and vessels have ever sailed the sea than the Yankees at their prime.
He had befriended English skippers already under somewhat similar circumstances, and the civiles, who knew their business, were quite aware that nobody would thank them for forcing the affair upon the attention of the English Consul.
He was also aware that more experienced skippers than he was had put their ships ashore upon that coast.
It was not, he knew, seafarers of unexceptional character who usually ventured into the still little known creeks of Western Africa, which the coast mailboats' skippers left alone.
Thus, in time, he had acquired a reputation for being unreliable and a wind-bag, with the result that skippers were chary of engaging him.
Every time a boat used to land at Kandavu, the native niggers would have a white-man stew down on the beach, and it's got so that skippers give the island a wide berth.
On the Bristol Channel side Lundy Island offered unrivalled facilities for evasion, and many were the crews marooned there by far-sighted skippers who calculated on thus securing them against their return from Bristol, outward bound.
London skippers in those trades favoured the neighbourhood of Great Yarmouth, where the maze of inland waterways constituting the Broads enabled the shifty sailor to lead the gangs a merry game at hide and seek.
That night the skippers of the two vessels decided, over several hot glasses, that Wigwam Harbour was no safe place for honest English sailor men.
But before the Rector, who felt all the wild rage of a few hours previous boiling up anew, could answer, a crowd of sailors andskippers came running up.
He turned his back on the skippers around, to get away from them, get away from everybody, who might know, and .
There the wives of the skippers were on hand to take charge of the catch.
I know skippers that will take me aboard, even if they have to stand off the whole United States.
I tell ye, good skippers ain't born ev'ry minute--and they knowed it.
Malaria and other fevers are common on low-lying belts of the Caribbean coast and skippers and mates fall sick.
This is the kind of navigation they break skippers for!
I was still talking with him when the skippers steward came up to us with an invitation for both to dinner in the cabin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skippers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
