Possible Clues:

• Small fast sailing ship - sounds sharp
• A scissors, say, or a small ship
• See 1
• A clipper? No, a smaller vessel
• The sort of 12 across that goes through the water?
• What a candle may do to get the water away
• This will give one a slice of the T in truce
• Saw a boat
• Fast boat; blade
• See 1 down