Crossword-Solution: KEELBOAT 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The best cabin in a keelboat had been furnished in sumptuous style for the accommodation of the self-indulgent chief.

How you getting along?" "Not so briskly as I could wish; we are under contract to finish fifteen of these large batteaux, besides a sixty-foot keelboat by December." "Sassyfax! Fifteen? What for?" "To carry colonists down the Mississippi to the Wachita lands.

The flatboats were broken up and sold as lumber when they had drifted down to their points of destination on the lower rivers, but the keelboat could make a return trip by dint of pushing with a long pole on the shore side and rowing on the other; sometimes even sails were used, and then the keelboat sped up stream at the rate of fifty miles instead of twelve miles a day.

Several Mackinaw boats moved anglingly across the current from the other shore, and a keelboat glided down the river for New Orleans, or to turn up the Ohio for Pittsburg, helped in the current by a dirty, square sail.

Then a broken and waterlogged keelboat, fully twenty-five feet long, scurried past, a great menace to every boat afloat.