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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 …

April 2024 Caption Contest — sailboat with inverted jib
Your caption here.
© 2024 Tom LeDuc

Remember to check out the March Caption Contest(!) winners in the April issue of Latitude 38.

39 Comments

  1. Frank Jesse 1 month ago

    Always need to rotate jib sails like one does automobile tires to keep wear even.

  2. Gregor Cailliet 1 month ago

    Some Jib Trim Needed?

  3. blanche Lénine-cruz( former member single handed) 1 month ago

    Ho ho ho heave ho

  4. hawley.chuck 1 month ago

    Well, the weather forecast was for high winds, so…

  5. Eric James Pederson 1 month ago

    I soon knew they’d already reefed from the cloud which came up the companionway.

  6. Bill Huber 1 month ago

    We generally sail bass ackwards, so technically, it’s a spanker.

  7. Pat Tilson 1 month ago

    No clew, know clew…

  8. Bill Huber 1 month ago

    You really weren’t kidding when you said you couldn’t make heads or tails of this thing!

  9. Bill 1 month ago

    It’s not the cut of your jib that bothers me so much as how you’re displaying it.

  10. Jay 1 month ago

    Hey! We’re sailing!

  11. Roger Briggs 1 month ago

    There’s more wind aloft, so let’s put the fat part of the sail up there.

  12. Jeff Ellsworth 1 month ago

    I put the head at the head of the boat??

  13. Scott Henry 1 month ago

    When the wind is light, there is more wind up high, so you put the big part of the sail up high, right?

  14. Ron Harben 1 month ago

    If we get the jib wet with this set, we’re in deep kimchee!

  15. Bill Mapel 1 month ago

    It’s not so much the cut of your jib that concerns me but how you deploy it.

  16. DavidGruver 1 month ago

    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.

  17. Scott Lyons 1 month ago

    Bottoms Up!

  18. Kelvin Meeks 1 month ago

    Bill’s new “Kite Sail” configuration failed to garner the expected envy – as the rest of the regatta rounded the mark.

  19. Cliff Fischer 1 month ago

    Attention to detail was one of the first casualties of legalizing marijuana

  20. taylor.thomas.h 1 month ago

    “Take down the 110 and put up the 130?”

  21. Bill Willcox 1 month ago

    Performance art for the harbor beach goers is very popular in Ventura. Next up a trebuchet will fling a dingy over the crowd.

  22. Michael La Guardia 1 month ago

    Maybe we should try poling it out?

  23. Justin Disney 1 month ago

    We’ll head up when we change tack.

  24. James McCann 1 month ago

    If we hoist our sails this way, no one will notice we leave our fenders out.

  25. Steve Bondelid 1 month ago

    It was the other way ’round when we left Australia…

  26. David Henry 1 month ago

    Reversal of Fortune!

  27. Charles Sanford 1 month ago

    “Ummm… Dave… The brownies… They are really good! Really good. Yeah… I think we ate all of them… You got any beer?”

  28. Em Black 1 month ago

    Just move the lead back!

  29. Nod 1 month ago

    Bill had told his wife she was wrong once before, he wasn’t about to make that mistake a second time!

  30. Jim 1 month ago

    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.

  31. Glenn Schmudde 1 month ago

    Jib is fine for now, need more fenders.

  32. Adam James 1 month ago

    Thanks for the heads up on the fenders being out. Anything else I should have done better?

  33. Adam James 1 month ago

    It’s my new storm jib!

  34. Scott Kexk 1 month ago

    Ooooh! SHIPshape! My bad….

  35. Joanne Aspinall 1 month ago

    Boom with a view!!

  36. Eben Kermit 1 month ago

    I couldn’t resist getting a bargain “Sail on sale today only!” (Clewless indeed).

  37. David Hume 1 month ago

    I haven’t got a clew, Dad said keep yer head down when tacking

  38. D Peterson 4 weeks ago

    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.

  39. Brian Forster 4 weeks ago

    We don’t need no sailing lessons…we’ll figure it out on our own!

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