Caption Contest(!)
This month we dived into our photo albums to see what we might find. Here’s one from the 2019 Master Mariners weekend aboard Call of the Sea’s schooner Seaward. We’ve long wondered why this guy is lounging around, and what he might be plotting. Any ideas? Drop your captions into the comments below.
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Check February’s Loose Lips for last month’s Caption Contest(!) winners.
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With recent CIA cuts to staffing and budgets, a new career opened up for sailors to conduct intelligence gathering missions.
If you raise that jib, I am throwing this orange right in your face!!
Off watch when there’s 7 crew and 3 bunks
Laying down on the jib. Get to work!
When is that stewardess going to come back with my beer?
“I am warning you Mr Customs man, this is my orange, one more step closer and I will throw it overboard…or eat it right now…”
I would like to tell sailors a funny photography joke but I feel that I would be exposed.
Putting this jib back into its bag is like stuffing a Boa Constrictor into a coffee can. J Muetz
On the high seas, when the “sprit” moves you…choose oranges not apples…they cure scurvy don’t-cha-know!
Zen racing: the unsteered boat never loses.
When you just have one jib tie-down, you have to improvise.
This ain’t no Opti.
When you said I’d be bunking in the v berth this NOT what I had in mind!
In order to adapt to his new empty nest syndrome, BOB settles in for some relaxing, listening to podcasts, photography and sightseeing. Soon he realized this is not the Crow’s nest that he was promised, it was better!
I OWN the magazine, so get back to work, and wake me up when it’s ready to go to print!
Foredeck sailor found it easier to flake out on the jib than it was to fold it.