St. Lawrence skiff

noun, a light kind of sailing-boat in use on the St. Lawrence (“skiff, n.1.” OED); see also skiff

“Yeah, it was pointed at both ends. Yeah, and he could row it forward or backward, eh. Like you used to see a lot of them, what they call St. Lawrence skiffs. They used to be down around the Gananoque area, were popular there, for the fishing guides to take people out and troll for the muskie.”

“It was about six feet long of fish boxes in a St. Lawrence Skiff, starting out.”

“He’d row his St. Lawrence skiff from here, around and up the north side to Garden Island on Sunday evening.”

“The St. Lawrence skiff, you gotta remember, was a very efficient boat. It was light enough, but it was heavy enough to carry and keep going. And it was slender and double-ended, and they had, in those days, long oars.”