Sentence examples for open boat from inspiring English sources

Number nine was where a lover hid his mistress in an open boat.

The weather was turbulent and the small jet bobbed like an open boat on choppy water.

And in "Old Cat" two men glide down a river on an open boat.

The journey in the open boat is the subject of John Toohey's "Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare".

Something rapid and primal, ceremonial, in the shallow of the open boat.

Burr could have been splashed in the open boat, or broken a sweat in the humid air.

Unlike the kayak, it was an open boat, either round in shape or elongated much like the birchbark canoe.

So he led a crew of five in an unprecedented open-boat sail across the globe's most tempestuous waters.

Shackleton and five others then undertake, arguably, the greatest open-boat voyage ever -- 800 miles to South Georgia over the wildest seas on earth.

What's more, Bligh emerges as heroic and misunderstood in this "highly imaginative" account of his open-boat ordeal, Douglas Whynott wrote here in 2000.

"Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare" is highly imaginative and vividly evokes what it might have been like for Bligh and his men during a nearly fatal open-boat voyage.