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Caption Contest(!)

Here’s your October autumn pumpkin-spiced Caption Contest(!). As (almost) always, the winner will be announced in Loose Lips. Good luck!

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24 Comments

  1. Jim Tull 4 years ago

    Yup, that’s our mark…

  2. Tom Carr 4 years ago

    “Those new hooks on the main sail are going to give a real tight turn around this mark!”

  3. Rosann Allenbaugh 4 years ago

    Close encounters of the Fifth kind!

  4. Curt Simpson 4 years ago

    Where’d THAT come from?

  5. Dale Land 4 years ago

    Dismasting Alert!

  6. Gary Green 4 years ago

    Is this what they mean by “tearing around the mark?”

  7. Jeff Deuel 4 years ago

    “Hey Siri…Get me directions to the nearest sailmaker.”

  8. Pat Broderick 4 years ago

    Tag Team Racing replaces W/L Racing

  9. Mike Turner 4 years ago

    “I kissed a buoy – and I liked it…”

  10. Kent Carter 4 years ago

    “Geez, we yelled starboard…”

  11. Tim Metcalf 4 years ago

    “That’s gonna leave a mark…”

  12. Peter Nelson 4 years ago

    Next time we start at the boat end.

  13. Tom Varley aka Cabin Boy 4 years ago

    Ooooh….so that’s why there’s a metal ring around the top of a buoy – it’s a Jib-Saver!

  14. Steve Costanzi 4 years ago

    How long do we need to stay here to keep this buoy from capsizing???

  15. Steve Andersen 4 years ago

    room at the mark !

  16. Christopher Conklin 4 years ago

    That’s one way to unstick a snagged telltail!

  17. Bill Huber 4 years ago

    It’s official, the tide has turned!

  18. Pat McIntosh 4 years ago

    “OH CRAP. . . . . GUSTS at the mark, I thought he said we were JUST at the mark!”

  19. Ken R 4 years ago

    “A sea lion!”

  20. Ants Uiga 4 years ago

    Thankfully, there is an app for this!

  21. Jan Passion 4 years ago

    Uh, I think we’re not supposed to get, like, less than 50 ‘ from sea mammals.

  22. Scott Henry 4 years ago

    Tell the captain that we found the missing jib creaser!

  23. wayne stevens 4 years ago

    O.K. Time for a swim break, it looks like this buoy will hold the boat.

  24. Doug Bonhaus 4 years ago

    “STARBOARD TACK!”

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