Caption Contest(!)
Welcome to April’s Caption Contest(!). Perhaps we should have posted this on April 1!
Thanks to Tom LeDuc from Monterey for sharing this photo he took in 1991. “I was returning to Ventura Harbor in my Catalina 22. Ahead of me was another sailboat, maybe a mile off, and as I gained on it something looked odd about the sails from dead astern.”
We’ll share the rest of Tom’s story in May’s “Loose Lips.” In the meantime, you know what to do …
© 2024 Tom LeDuc
Remember to check out the March Caption Contest(!) winners in the April issue of Latitude 38.
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Always need to rotate jib sails like one does automobile tires to keep wear even.
Some Jib Trim Needed?
Ho ho ho heave ho
Well, the weather forecast was for high winds, so…
I soon knew they’d already reefed from the cloud which came up the companionway.
We generally sail bass ackwards, so technically, it’s a spanker.
No clew, know clew…
You really weren’t kidding when you said you couldn’t make heads or tails of this thing!
It’s not the cut of your jib that bothers me so much as how you’re displaying it.
Hey! We’re sailing!
There’s more wind aloft, so let’s put the fat part of the sail up there.
I put the head at the head of the boat??
When the wind is light, there is more wind up high, so you put the big part of the sail up high, right?
If we get the jib wet with this set, we’re in deep kimchee!
It’s not so much the cut of your jib that concerns me but how you deploy it.
Fenders down, check. Mainsail not fully hoisted, check. Batten coming out of main, check. Genoa hoisted upside down, check. We don’t care what anyone says. We are out on the water and they are all just keyboard warriors.
Bottoms Up!
Bill’s new “Kite Sail” configuration failed to garner the expected envy – as the rest of the regatta rounded the mark.
Attention to detail was one of the first casualties of legalizing marijuana
“Take down the 110 and put up the 130?”
Performance art for the harbor beach goers is very popular in Ventura. Next up a trebuchet will fling a dingy over the crowd.
Maybe we should try poling it out?
We’ll head up when we change tack.
If we hoist our sails this way, no one will notice we leave our fenders out.
It was the other way ’round when we left Australia…
Reversal of Fortune!
“Ummm… Dave… The brownies… They are really good! Really good. Yeah… I think we ate all of them… You got any beer?”
Just move the lead back!
Bill had told his wife she was wrong once before, he wasn’t about to make that mistake a second time!
Now that he mastered sail trim, Captain Biff wondered why no boats ever approached close enough for him to start figuring out right of way rules.
Jib is fine for now, need more fenders.
Thanks for the heads up on the fenders being out. Anything else I should have done better?
It’s my new storm jib!
Ooooh! SHIPshape! My bad….
Boom with a view!!
I couldn’t resist getting a bargain “Sail on sale today only!” (Clewless indeed).
I haven’t got a clew, Dad said keep yer head down when tacking
New foredeck crew thought that ‘flying jib’ was stenciled on its sail bag upside down, and assumed it was supposed to be hoisted that way.
We don’t need no sailing lessons…we’ll figure it out on our own!