Fellows take moguls up front in sailboat? (5)
I believe the answer is:
skiff
'sailboat?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'fellows take moguls up front' is the wordplay.
'fellows' becomes 'ff'.
'take moguls' becomes 'ski' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'up front' says to put letters next to each other.
'ff' after 'ski' is 'SKIFF'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for skiff that I've seen before include "Light rowing boat for one person" , "Small light boat" , "Small rowing boat" .)