The driver engaged the throttles and the black boat skimmed quickly across the water toward her mother ship.

A few minutes later, the two boats were skimming across the rain-splashed water at speeds of nearly thirty knots.

The seas were calm, and the boat skimmed across the gentle waves at a good twenty-five knots per hour.

He planted his feet firmly to maintain his balance as the little boat skimmed the waves.

A single boat skims across the bay, soundless and smooth.

As the boat skimmed over the water through the overgrown reeds she could make out the walls of the church and the monastery.

The flat-bottomed boat skimmed quickly and almost silently along the waterway.

The boat skimmed over the waves under the sailors' powerful oars.

The boat skimmed along the water, carrying them after their quarry.

He let go, hoisted his sail, and in a moment the little boat was skimming across the sunlit surface of the bay.