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n. The art of managing a boat.
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n. skill in handling boats
Word Usage
"With superb boatmanship he threaded the narrow, tortuous channel which no craft larger than a whaleboat could negotiate, until the shoals and patches showed seaward and they grounded on the quiet, rippling beach."