Students must find out the angle they need to point the boat so that the boat moves directly across the water.

Students must find out the downstream distance that a boat travels when its heading relative to the water is perpendicular to the way the water is moving.

Students must find out the downstream distance that a boat travels when its heading relative to the water is not perpendicular to the way the water is moving.

Students must find the best angle for a tackler to run in order to reach a ball carrier most efficiently.

This University of Minnesota site provides a series of contextually rich problems pertaining to force, Newton's second law of motion, and linear kinematics.