Mr. CHARLTON HESTON (actor, Reading): He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf stream and he'd gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

NPR: The Enduring Depths of 'Old Man and the Sea'

While we are there, a call comes in from a merchant vessel, very concerned about a fishing boat towing a "skiff, " a slim, fast speedboat favoured by the pirates.

BBC: Seeking Somali pirates, from the air

She was also green and 23 feet long--a Caribiana skiff.

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's announcement Monday that it purchased Skiff, a firm started by Hearst to create a technology platform for e-readers.

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Morse shepherds buyers through the process, monitors each boat's progress almost daily, and then--this is something you probably won't find at Chris-Craft--delivers the boat personally. (He's driven them as far as the Chesapeake Bay.) Your first ride in your new skiff is a shakedown cruise with the personable Morse himself, who ends up remaining in touch with many owners for years afterward.

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After having a close look at the skiff the decision was taken to sink it.

BBC: y inflatable alongside the skiff

The Skiff Reader, on the other hand, is being pitched as a consumer device with a compelling value proposition for publishers ( by publishers) and content owners that will ultimately deliver multimedia on a wide range of devices and display types hooked into the Skiff Store -- just not the flagship Skiff Reader with traditional e-paper display.

ENGADGET: The e-Reader story of CES 2010

The Kindle has done reasonably well, and has spawned a host of similar devices with equally silly names, including the Nook, the Skiff and the Que.

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