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Language
English
Description
The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone...
9) First sail
Author
Publisher
Tidewater Publishers
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
41 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An adventure story which includes labeled drawings of many fundamentals of sailing.
10) Basic sailing
Author
Publisher
Hearst Marine Books
Pub. Date
1984.
Edition
New edition.
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
11) Learn to sail
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"The art of sailing, maneuvering, and preserving a ship or a boat in all positions and under all reasonable circumstances." With the addition of the words, "and some unreasonable circumstances, too, " this definition of "seamanship" is as valid today as when the first edition of this book was published in 1983. This edition has been extensively updated with new or updated text, and many new photographs.
15) Ocean meets sky
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A little boy builds a ship to honor his late grandfather and sets sail for the magical place where ocean meets sky from his grandfather's stories"--
16) Float plan
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Since the loss of her fiancé, Anna has been shipwrecked by grief. When a reminder goes off about a trip they were supposed to take together, Anna impulsively goes to sea in their sailboat, intending to complete the voyage alone. After a treacherous night's sail she realizes she can't do it by herself and hires Keane, a professional sailor, to help. Keane is also struggling with a very different future than the one he had planned. As romance rises...
17) We, the drowned
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
678 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
115 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Preparing to watch the Famouse Fjord Race, mouseking Geronimo Stiltonord, a family member from the ancient far north, is dragged onto a boat, despite his lack of sailing skills, before learning that the dragons are preparing for another attack.
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