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Caption Contest(!)

We wonder how long this sailor’s been hanging around waiting for this month’s Caption Contest(!)

Caption Contest_May 2023
Your caption here.
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Drop your caption into the comments below, and check out last month’s winners in the May issue of Latitude 38.

32 Comments

  1. Peteer Bellak 12 months ago

    Hey Herbie! Can I get you another beer?

  2. Roger Briggs 12 months ago

    Just getting ready to turtle the boat.

  3. Candy 12 months ago

    Practicing for Cirque du Vent.

  4. Robert Goldberg 12 months ago

    Tie (off) me kangaroo down, sport!

  5. Jeff Collier 12 months ago

    Now offering complete top to bottom rig inspection.

  6. brooks townes 12 months ago

    As soon as the blood runs out of my nose I can thin this varnish.

  7. Dustin Byron Wilton 12 months ago

    Wow! My deck is dirty!

  8. Jeff Deuel 12 months ago

    When advertising failed, the chandleries figured out other ways of separating boat owners from their cash.

  9. Tim McCormick 12 months ago

    Damn it! You hoisted the spinnaker upside down last weekend too!

  10. Cecile Schwedes 12 months ago

    This thing is rigged!

  11. Bill Huber 12 months ago

    Non-traditional double spreader rig…

  12. Bill Huber 12 months ago

    I believe it is a double cheek block…

  13. RT 12 months ago

    Look, Sarah. We’ve strung this guy out about as long as we can. I think he needs an answer NOW!

  14. Peter Bennett 12 months ago

    Just a little more, I can’t see the top of the mast.

  15. Bill Willcox 12 months ago

    That’s the last time I buy a used climbing harness from that guy Wile E. at Acme.

  16. Bill Willcox 12 months ago

    Leonardo, I’m not comfortable here.

  17. joe moore 12 months ago

    i know that mast light was here!

  18. Bud Kerner 12 months ago

    Cures seasickness every time.

  19. David N Henry 12 months ago

    This rope gymnastics is supposed really help me lose those unwanted pounds!

  20. Duckie 12 months ago

    Sometimes it’s just better to look at a problem from another angle!

  21. Dockskiff 12 months ago

    While I’m up here the L1s could use a turn up

  22. Ron Harben 12 months ago

    Just when I was getting the hang of these jet boots, they run out of fuel!

  23. Al Moran 12 months ago

    Bottoms Up!

  24. Sailorette 12 months ago

    This is the best way I’ve found to check the underside of the speaders.

  25. Chris Conklin 12 months ago

    Isn’t that the way you are suppose to come down the rig?

  26. milly Biller 12 months ago

    Vertical Dyslexia ?

  27. Mark Caplin 12 months ago

    Down on his luck, Spiderman regrets his choice to work in the rigging shop

  28. ED ANGLIN 12 months ago

    Got this, I don’t need no stink’n bosun chair training.

  29. James Cate 12 months ago

    Were it not for an awkward dismount, this athlete would have scored a 9+ on the high bar.

  30. Eben L Kermit 11 months ago

    He fly’s through the air with the greatest of ease…the daring young man on the flying trapeze!

  31. Dave Peterson 11 months ago

    Showing how it’s done using the inverted Bosun chair position, Journeyman rigger ties a reverse downhaul knot.

  32. Rob Falconer 11 months ago

    That Jolly Roger looks a bit too jolly …

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