The wooden boat they were on is believed to have been ferrying mostly Afghans.
Instead, the famous lanced competition takes place on a wooden boat, a sport officially known as water jousting (la joute nautique).
Some dashed to the headland, only to watch helplessly as a wooden boat carrying as many as 100 asylum-seekers smashed against rocks.
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Instead we found Peter Bornu and his wife, knee-deep in thick, oily mud pulling at the branches of the mangroves and stacking them in their wooden boat.
He was in his home in New Orleans and beside him he could hear his wife Kathy breathing, her exhalations not unlike the shushing of water against the hull of a wooden boat.
Forty-eight years ago, King wrote part of his eulogy in Saunders' wooden boat deep in the Bimini mangroves, a winding swamp of thick bushes and trees where 100 species of fish and marine life fill the murky waters.
The traditional knowledge surrounding Lenjes includes oral literature, performing arts and festivals, in addition to the sailing and navigation techniques and terminology and weather forecasting that are closely associated with sailing, and the skills of wooden boat-building itself.
Join one of the two whale watching outfits there (we chose North Sailing) for an evening whale watch aboard an old wooden fishing boat, some of which are actually repurposed whaling boats.
In contrast, Universal Orlando is a pedestrian-friendly and intimate complex with two excellent theme parks (Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure), three first-rate resorts, and a carnival-like restaurant and nightlife district (CityWalk) connected by lovely gardened paths or a quiet wooden-boat shuttle.
As each colourfully painted wooden fishing boat returns from three or four days at sea, the beach rapidly transforms into a market and large metal bowls of shiny silver herring and tuna are hauled ashore by men who look like Olympic medal-winning body builders.
Our boat pulled up to a wooden platform about 1km out into the harbour, surrounded by the fishermen and their homes.
The jouster, wearing only white clothing (like the rest of the crew), stands on a wooden platform (called a tintaine) that extends off the boat about 3m above the water, carrying a 70cm tall shield and a 2.8m lance with which to knock the opponent into the river or canal below.
Situated on the banks of the Asian shoreline on the outskirts of the city (about 40 minutes from downtown in the suburb of Kanlica, accessible by shuttle boat) this yali (a word for the wooden residences along the Bosphorus) houses an elegant restaurant with an outdoor terrace serving up Mediterranean and Italian cuisine such as lamb shank confit with the sparkling strait as a backdrop.
Next to a long wooden dock with chairs at its end sits a fast-looking boat with twin outboards.
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Take a private or group cruise watch out for special events like a tour featuring the wines of Australia and New Zealand with Schooner Woodwind on a 74-foot wooden ship, and pitch in by helping raise the sails or steer the boat.
Six Australian Customs and Border Protection Service Marine Enforcement Officers serving aboard the Australian Customs and Border Protection Vessel Triton, and 12 members of the Australian Defence Force serving on the patrol boat HMAS Pirie, nominated by Australia, for rescuing 41 survivors from a small wooden vessel which had smashed against rocks off Christmas Island, in December 2010, with an estimated 70 to 100 persons on board.
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