Characters
Parts of a Boat
Out At Sea
It Happened 1st
Open Sea
100
The full name of the narrator of the story
Who is David Alspeth?
100
The living quarters on a boat
What is the cabin?
100
A unit for measuring the speed of a ship
What is knot?
100
Owen had a backache or Owen was diagnosed with Cancer
What is Owen had a backache?
100
The setting for the story begins in what U.S. state?
What is California?
200
The name of the boat
What is "Frog"?
200
The front of the boat
What is bow?
200
This term means to be pushed outward by wind
What is billowed?
200
David spread Owen's ashes on the ocean or Davis threw the ash box into the ocean
What is David spread Owen's ashes on the ocean?
200
David felt this way after the tanker passed him
What is hateful?
300
David's uncle
Who is Owen?
300
The back of the boat
What is stern?
300
A term used to describe the sound of sails slapping in the wind
What is luffing?
300
David encountered a tanker or David encountered a research ship
What is David encountered a tanker?
300
Owen fried these mollusks in butter for David
What is abalone?
400
David's age
What is 14?
400
The steel lines around the edge of the decks
What are lifelines?
400
To shorten a sail by tying it down
What is reefing?
400
David saw the dolphin or David saw something phosphoresce in the water
What is David saw something phosphoresce in the water?
400
This was Owens favorite time to sail
What is at night?
500
David's current grade (year) in school
What is 8th grade?
500
A space on a ship between decks used for storage
What is lazaret?
500
Ropes used to hoist sails
What are halyards?
500
David saw a pod of killer whales or David saw a pod of blue whales
What is David saw a pod of killer whales?
500
The ship that found David was researching this animal
What is whales