It’s Time for April’s Caption Contest(!)
Happy mid-April, readers. For this month’s Caption Contest(!) we have a photo with a difference. What do you think is going on in this picture captured by Larry White?
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HMS Dinghy ‘Three Hour Tour’.
Why its always important to have a float plan
You’ve gotta be kidding!!!
Row, Row, Row your boat!!
You got the short end of the stick, now do the mud walk and pull us back to shore!
This Uber could use a high tide Lyft.
They mentioned dinghy wheels but I thought they were a passing fad…………..
Should have looked at the depth sounder!
I told you we should go back because the tide was going out!!!
The upside is, there’s a full moon tonight!
That looks like it could be the Airport Channel in San Leandro Bay, which brought back a memory: As kids we sailed down there sometimes – before the park was developed there was a burger place by the channel. One day, along came a couple of big guys in an El Toro, sailing south towards the dead end at Hegenberger Road. Apparently they were geographically-challenged because they yelled over that they were sailing to San Jose!
Land ho
“Hey! This is last year’s tide table!!!”
In Arkansas, Huckleberry and run-away slave Jim bring two grifters aboard the raft, the “lost Daufin,” and the “Duke of Bridgewater.” In at least 4 paragraphs, discuss Mark Twain’s use of irony…
Didn’t anyone check the tide book?
Obviously getting ready for the first shovel-full of the Panama Canal
Seriously… you forgot the clamming shovels?
I told you the earth was flat
Do you know how to skooch?
Mud Hooo!
If 2020 were an unexpected low tide . . .
Rub a du\b dub, three men in the mud.
i told you to paddle faster!!!!!
That day Alameda was almost discovered
You drew the short straw, now go trek ashore and come back with our cocktail hour supplies!
In 1970, during college, our chemistry project was to determine the salt water penetration along the Napa River. Although we consulted the tide table and shoved off on the incoming, we failed to factor in the time it would take to row a boat up the length of the river. Before we reached the fresh water point, the tide had changed and we ended getting out and dragging the boat upriver (upcreek was more like it) to the final sampling point. I would caption this picture, “Well you’re the Captain! No, You’re the Captain!”
I swear this is where I dropped my keys
When the tidal bore rolls in we’ll be the first four dudes on an inflatable to get barreled!
There were four boys in a tub
Who sailed onto the ebb’s gooey mud.
And now they are stuck
In the Bay’s sticky muck
Until the upcoming flood.
Refugees looking for a place to land?
Are you sure this is what they mean by a raft up?
Are you sure the GPS says that this is where we parked the car?
Well don’t just stand there
“Believe me, my young friends, there is NOTHING — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply mucking about in boats.”
The British were coming! The British were coming!
Is this what they call “Hard Aground”? Looks kinda soft to me.
We must be getting better at this, we can STAND UP without rocking the boat or falling in!
A butcher, a baker, and a candlestick maker all went down to the sea…
Another fine mess you’ve gotten us into, Ollie!
Bill, your tide book is from 2019 you dumb as_. What where you thinking.
Now get us to shore.
Which way is Delaware, General?
Al least we didn’t block the Suez Canal!
If we all move to the starboard side, do you think we’ll refloat?
Who let the water out? Who? Who? Who?
Finally, we’re off that desert island. Civilization, feels good! Right Steve? Steve? Uh guys, I think we forgot Steve!
No, you were in charge of bringing oars not Oreos!