It hurts me a lot to think about people preparing to risk their lives in flimsy boats.

Many more have drowned sailing to the US in flimsy boats.

Several of the flimsy boats collapsed, and the men were forced to wade across the chest deep river.

Had he made it across the river in that flimsy little boat?

"Haitians flee here in flimsy boats and the reception is hostile."

With only twenty minutes to go, Cook's men saw, for the first time, the flimsy collapsible green boats.

Their flimsy boat was barely fit for 20, he said.

Haitians have been taking to sea in flimsy boats by the hundreds in recent days.

The flimsy boat turned turtle, dumping him into the Juliffe.

And the trunks in the home sea floated behind the flimsy yellow boats of the white men.