Crossword-Solution: POWERBOAT 9 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

That good sized powerboat was the Chippeway Belle, the vessel which was to be their home for the next two weeks or more, as they pleased.

Don't anybody make out like we're watching 'em; but try and remember where you put our gun, Thad; because who knows but what we might need the same right bad before long?" CHAPTER VII ON HEAVING WATERS "Gee! Pirates! Whew!" That was only Bumpus talking to himself; as he lay there on the deck, and stared across the swelling water toward the black powerboat that was heading the other way, so as to cross their course.

They had talked over about every subject that could be imagined, including the matter of the mysterious powerboat that had passed them that afternoon, apparently heading in another direction; though Thad knew that long afterwards those in the black craft had altered their course, and were really following them.

Thad learned later an that the poor old Chippeway Belle was fully insured, and no word of complaint ever reached them after they had furnished the owner with all the evidence he needed in order to collect the amount; so there may have been a little truth in what several of the scouts hinted among themselves, that the sinking of the powerboat cleared the air, and allowed the gentleman to replace her with a newer model.

Prettyman Sweet's motorboat _Duchess_, a very nice craft, and the larger powerboat belonging to Chet Belding and Lance Darby, named _Bonnie Lass_, were manned by the boys before the girls appeared.