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Latitude 38 - April 2019-2020

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You never quite know what tack a World Famous Latitude 38 Caption Contest(!) will take. This month's was, without a doubt, all about foiling, foiling . . . foiling. "A land foiler?" or "Are we foiling the right way?" many of you quipped. There were also emphatic warnings: "Whatever you do, don't walk to the bow." We also had more than a few entries that said, "Put a coat of bottom paint on before the tide comes back in." And, oh yeah, let's not forget, "This is last year's tide book."

We feel like we've been saying this a lot, but this was, perhaps, the most popular Caption Contest(!) in Latitude history. Thank you, Nation.

Aaaaaannnnnnnnd the winner is:

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Boat Yoga. This is the cutter pose. — Ron Harben

"OK, time to remove the training foils." — Pat Broderick "All we need now are roller skates." — Michael Childs "Think they'll notice we didn't pick the holding tank option?" — Brad Kerstetter "Can I ask for directions now?" — Adrianna B Cincoski "New evidence! Early ancestor of the automobile photographed crawling from the water on its little keels." — B Daker "This is not what I meant when I said let's spend a day at the beach." — Robertta Edwards "Travelift? We don't need no stinkin' Travelift!" — Jeff

Phillips "When you called and said you were at the sand bar, I thought you had just gone for a beer." — John Lewis "Found where to set that keel offset on the depthsounder.

What's it reading now?" — Michael Scipione "Don't be the guys too early at the start for ice sailing." —

Roderick Bauer

"Books and books and books — some 500 volumes in all. Books of the sea and books of the land, some of them streaked with salt, collected with love and care over more than 25 years.

"Melville, Conrad, London, Stevenson; Gauguin and Loti and Rupert Brooke; Lubbock, Masefield, de Hartog — Slocum and Rockwell Kent; Trelawny amd Cook and Bligh; Chapelle and Underhill — Nansen, Frobisher, Villiers and Scott and Louis Becke. Homer, Gerbault, and Tompkins. Hundreds more: all cast in a common mold — blessed with the genius that makes men feel, and dream, and go."

Sterling Hayden, Wanderer

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