sailing

Kate and Bill almost meet with disaster when they go sailing with their dad, get caught in the fog, and are nearly hit by a big boat. Focuses on one-syllable words with short and long vowels.

Working in Montauk for the summer, Matt and Mike meet three girls who invite them to their Hamptons mansion, where the group decides to sail out into the ocean in a small boat, become lost at sea, and must learn to work together to survive.

Orphaned runaways Penny and Nick take refuge under the sails of a boat in the harbor and awaken to find they have stowed away on a boat owned by Ben, a fifteen-year-old boy whose father has been reported missing in the Pacific during World War II, and who enlists the siblings in honoring a promise he made to his dad to sail the boat out to sea rather than let it be sold.

"Matt and Mike are best friends, just two working-class guys trying to earn some money in Montauk for the summer. When they meet Driana, JoJo, and Stef, three friends who live a much different life of privilege, Matt and Mike find themselves in a sticky situation where temptation rivals sensibility. Worlds collide when the group ventures out to sea aboard a small boat that Stef sneaks out from her dad's dock. As the waves rise and the fragile vessel weakens, things go horribly wrong. Adrift at sea for days, who will have what it takes to survive?"--.

Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their trans-Atlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat. They are enroute, with uncles and another cousin, to visit their grandfather in England.

Rachel fears her family trip to the Caribbean will be too boring to bear, but when she and her brother discover a shocking secret, Rachel wonders if they will even survive the experience.

Simon, having signed up for a cruising course so he can become a solo delivery skipper, learns about foul weather sailing, teamwork, and environmental protection.

When Elizabeth learns that she needs to be able to navigate by the stars to become a sailor like her father, her mother makes her a quilt with the constellations displayed on it.

Lemuel Gulliver always dreamed of sailing across the seas, but he never could have imagined the places his travels would take him. His adventures could be the greatest tales ever told, if he survives to tell them.

After a devastating tsunami in Japan, cousins Jet and Kai spend the summer together in Astoria, Oregon, training for the Young's Bay Treasure Island Race and become close friends in the process.