On the river white-sailed skiffs, chugging launches, gaudy canoes and more sober rowboats darted and drifted across the sunlit water.
"The Crimson Sweater"
Ralph Henry Barbour
The townspeople were running about upon the strand, some offering their skiffs to convey the officers on board the ships, some helping to swing the bullocks into the barges, and others shouting and hallooing apparently from the disinterested love of noise.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
To the land-locked Bay of Stromness which was full of ships of all sizes, of schooners, and of little skiffs painted a light green colour like the pleasure skiffs of Kirkwall.
"An Orkney Maid"
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr