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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as boats)
avg rating 3.57 — 634,604 ratings — published 1851
Little Tug (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as boats)
avg rating 3.75 — 586 ratings — published 2012
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as boats)
avg rating 4.17 — 239,461 ratings — published 2023
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as boats)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,062 ratings — published 2000
The Old Boat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as boats)
avg rating 3.58 — 587 ratings — published 2021
Sail Away (Rise and Shine)
by (shelved 15 times as boats)
avg rating 3.40 — 267 ratings — published 1995
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as boats)
avg rating 4.47 — 179,429 ratings — published 1959
Boats on the Bay: A Picture Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as boats)
avg rating 3.99 — 159 ratings — published 2018
I'm Mighty!: A Harbor Picture Book About a Small Tugboat Pulling Big Ships for Kids (Ages 4-8) (Kate and Jim Mcmullan)
by (shelved 13 times as boats)
avg rating 3.64 — 454 ratings — published 2003
Who Sank the Boat? (Paperstar)
by (shelved 13 times as boats)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,879 ratings — published 1982
Old MacDonald Had a Boat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as boats)
avg rating 3.60 — 317 ratings — published
Mighty Tug (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as boats)
avg rating 3.37 — 288 ratings — published 2018
Row, Row, Row Your Boat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as boats)
avg rating 4.16 — 772 ratings — published 2014
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as boats)
avg rating 4.09 — 519,815 ratings — published 1952
Mr. Gumpy's Outing (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as boats)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,631 ratings — published 1970
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as boats)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,786,757 ratings — published 2001
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as boats)
avg rating 4.06 — 65,848 ratings — published 1969
Ocean Meets Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as boats)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,925 ratings — published 2018
Boats Float! (Richard Jackson Book)
by (shelved 10 times as boats)
avg rating 3.63 — 272 ratings — published 2015
Splish-Splash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as boats)
avg rating 3.51 — 178 ratings — published 2002
The Woman in Cabin 10 (Lo Blacklock #1)
by (shelved 9 times as boats)
avg rating 3.71 — 816,202 ratings — published 2016
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as boats)
avg rating 4.13 — 167,639 ratings — published 2015
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as boats)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,185 ratings — published 2014
The Circus Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as boats)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,626 ratings — published 2009
Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as boats)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,205 ratings — published 1930
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as boats)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,373,761 ratings — published 1952
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as boats)
avg rating 4.39 — 371,310 ratings — published 2013
Boats Will Float (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as boats)
avg rating 4.06 — 127 ratings — published
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as boats)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,789,189 ratings — published 2018
Little Toot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as boats)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,804 ratings — published 1939
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as boats)
avg rating 3.85 — 554,930 ratings — published 1882
Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as boats)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,878 ratings — published 1889
Boats (Chunky Board Book)
by (shelved 8 times as boats)
avg rating 3.69 — 310 ratings — published 1986
Sailing Alone around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as boats)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,548 ratings — published 1899
Bunnies in a Boat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as boats)
avg rating 3.70 — 297 ratings — published
Sal Boat: (A Boat by Sal)
by (shelved 7 times as boats)
avg rating 3.94 — 287 ratings — published 2022
And Then Came Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as boats)
avg rating 3.42 — 216 ratings — published
My First Day (Library Binding)
by (shelved 7 times as boats)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,052 ratings — published 2021
How It Feels to Be a Boat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as boats)
avg rating 3.10 — 264 ratings — published 2017
Tugboat Bill and the River Rescue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as boats)
avg rating 3.16 — 201 ratings — published
Rescue Squad No. 9 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as boats)
avg rating 3.51 — 289 ratings — published
Yak and Gnu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as boats)
avg rating 3.65 — 150 ratings — published 2015
Boats for Papa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as boats)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,270 ratings — published 2015
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as boats)
avg rating 4.09 — 78,838 ratings — published 2007
Three Bears in a Boat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as boats)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,472 ratings — published 2014
“I couldn't help wondering where porpoises had learned this game of running on the bows of ships. Porpoises have been swimming in the oceans for seven to ten million years, but they've had human ships to play with for only the last few thousand. Yet nearly all porpoises, in every ocean, catch rides for fun from passing ships; and they were doing it on the bows of Greek triremes and prehistoric Tahitian canoes, as soon as those seacraft appeared. What did they do for fun before ships were invented?
Ken Norris made a field observation one day that suggests the answer. He saw a humpback whale hurrying along the coast of the island of Hawaii, unavoidably making a wave in front of itself; playing in that bow wave was a flock of bottlenose porpoises. The whale didn't seem to be enjoying it much: Ken said it looked like a horse being bothered by flies around its head; however, there was nothing much the whale could do about it, and the porpoises were having a fun time. ”
― Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer
Ken Norris made a field observation one day that suggests the answer. He saw a humpback whale hurrying along the coast of the island of Hawaii, unavoidably making a wave in front of itself; playing in that bow wave was a flock of bottlenose porpoises. The whale didn't seem to be enjoying it much: Ken said it looked like a horse being bothered by flies around its head; however, there was nothing much the whale could do about it, and the porpoises were having a fun time. ”
― Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer
“...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...”
― Caught by the Sea
― Caught by the Sea
