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Corinthians Annual Cruise 2025: Maine
Corinthians Annual Cruise 2025: Maine
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Corinthians Annual Cruise 2025: Maine

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Limerick Challenge

The Corinthian Limerick Challenge


Location: Camden Yacht Club
Time: Finale - Dinner

Rules:
Write a limerick following the basic 8, 8, 5, 5, 8 syllable format.

  • Minimum one limerick per boat.
  • Maximum one limerick for total crew aboard.
  • Entrants will be given the chance to expound their gem to the Fleet.
  • The winners will be selected by applause vote at a venue to be selected
  • A Yacht that fails to post a limerick will buy a round of drinks at the CYC!

Background
A limerick is a funny, nonsensical and often bawdy poem consisting of 5 lines. Limericks were popularized by Edward Lear in his first Book of Nonsense (1846) and a later work, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. (1872). The humor is not in the "punch line" ending but rather in the tension between meanings. Bennett Cerf was also well known for his Limericks in the 20th century.

See Ideas for Creative Rhyming

How to Write a Limerick
  • The 1st, 2nd & 5th lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (8 or 9).
  • The 3rd & 4th lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (5 or 6).
  • This type of silly poetry usually begins with “There once was a ...” or “There was a ...”

Example from Bennett Cerf:
There once was a girl from St. Paul,
Who wore a newspaper dress to the ball.
But her dress caught on fire
And burnt her entire
Front page, sports section and all!


2025 Corinthians Limerick Challenge Finish the Limerick Contest


Finish the Limerick


There once was a man from Nantucket.
Who piled high clams in a bucket.
Line 3?
Line 4?
Line 5?


Enter your submission for Lines 3, 4, 5 as a Comment from your yacht — in Comment tool below.

OR

Write your own creative ditty!



Vote will be taken at Finale Dinner


Enter Your Limerick on This Website

— Use the Comment tool below
Grace
Two boats of green hull made a raft
In Seal Cove where we found the right draft
Rocks on the port side
The starboard side too
And Dracarys just off of our aft
Panda V
We came on the Panda Vee,
Bill, Neil, and me,
Around ‘nobscot Bay we did roam,
Eat out very night,
We sure got that right,
Well, I feel so break up,
I don’t wanta go home.
Onward
Variation 1.

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who stuck his head in a bucket.
That was fine as the contents was wine.
But the Corinthians had already drunk it.
Onward
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who stuck his head in a bucket.
That was fine as the contents was wine.
Leave it to a Corinthian to luck it.
Grace
A fine cruise in Maine this has been
With nary fog banks to be seen
Skies have been blue
Puffy clouds also too
Surrounded by pine trees of green
Grace
A fine cruise in Maine this has been
With nary fog banks to be seen
Skies have been blue
Puffy clouds also too
Surrounded by pine trees of green
Conundrum
We sailed from the Chesapeake Bay
To the coast of Maine, far away
Where the fun never ends
With our old and new friends
Corinthians, hip hip hooray
Panda
This Limerick requires an introduction.  
The first published limerick was in the Princeton University newsletter in the early 1900s, around the time Dick Woods was a student there, and with that connection we honor Dick, or as he is also known as Richard.

There once was a man named Richard
Whose sailing skills were mastered
Until one day
With anchors aweigh
The crew saw the master was plastered

We hope to win both the Limerick award, and the Nothing award for obstreperous behavior.
Grace
A fine cruise in Maine this has been
With nary fog banks to be seen
Skies have been blue
Puffy clouds also too
Surrounded by pine trees of green
Grace
While sailing the Bay Penobscot
One finds more than one lobster pot
We bob and we weave
In hopes that we leave
Not a line that is twined on our prop
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Updated: 7 August 2025