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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
Patriot
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who piled high clams in a bucket
He grabbed one knife in hand
Pryed the shell still full of sand
Ignored the grit and proceeded to suck it
Patriot
Roll of the gifted Dice

At Bucks Harbor it got kinda confusing
Dock, mooring or hook are we using
Assignments were all in a shuffle
Where to go was quite a Kerfuffel
So we anchored and started some boozing

More fun was had at Somes Sound
Mooring assignments were again not to be found
So we said "to the hook"
Found a nice little nook
Set the hook and was blissfully bound

So "Onward" we go with some zeal
To an anchorage with friends and playful seal
To anchor is our fate
In a cove small and great
Where we gather once more for a meal
Evening Song
We traveled from far to meet sailors in Maine
Corinthians so happy to unite without rain

Dodging lobster pots, rocks, islands and seals
Using anchors and flags and dinghys with zeal 

We shared stories, hors d'ouevres, drinks and dinner
Each one could attest this trip was a winner!!
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Updated: 7 August 2025