Point Abino: a summer of white sails, first love, and the wind that teaches boy how to become man.

Point Abino follows Brian, a quiet seventeen-year-old whose father died four years ago. He spends the summer of 1970 racing Lightning-class sailboats at a yacht club on Lake Erie with his brilliant, impossible best friend Chad and Chad's steady, soft-spoken father.When Mary arrives - a beautiful sixteen-year-old from a wealthier world, headed for Harvard - Brian wants two things he has never allowed himself to want openly: to beat her on the water and to know her off it.Over twelve Sundays, through close finishes and bitter losses, a storm rescue and a first victory, Brian learns to hold his ground without becoming cruel. But the summer is bounded by the Vietnam War, class lines, and futures already being sorted. When Chad dies suddenly during his first year of college, Brian must decide whether to drift or step aboard the working lake his great-grandfather once sailed - and make his life happen back.