AWARD NOMINATIONS 2024-2025
MOST UNWELCOME / UNINVITED 🐊 VISITOR ONBOARD

1)

BIRDS NESTING ABOARD IN
COSTA RICA

BIRD NESTS

SV FIREFLY,
currently moored at Marina Papagayo in Costa Rica, recently had the
opportunity to have some visitors aboard that made themselves right at
home….and then up and left. No harm, no foul, and enjoyed being
witness to such a precious time in a birds life.

Brenda shares the story:

So
birds and boats, really a persistent task to prevent them from building
nest pooping all over the place, of course after a fresh wash.

A
couple of stories….So we overlooked the Great Kiskadee nest in our
anchor not really noticing it quick enough to get rid if it. So not
having any plans to go out, we watched as it grew large and then assumed
the eggs were laid as they would dive bomb us as we got too close. We
never saw the chicks but eventually they left and the nest was donated
to Neptune.

2)

How the heck did the Iguana get onboard

MY NEXT CHAPTER Chris & Shawna & crew – Selene 59′

3)

Look closely. An unwanted guest. How in the world did a frog get on the boat. It’s been raining a lot but raining frogs?

SY REMEDY Natalie & Karl – Leopard 45’

4)

UNIVITED VISITOR

Univited Visitor

SV CARINTHIA spotted on the vessel next to us – on a closer look – a vulture seems like this black mast attracts as a perch a big old black vulture

5)

6)

Unwanted stowaway photo submission (if such category exists )

SNAKES ON A BOAT

SY CANEL
Kathya & Jeff
Jeanneau 38

7)

STOWAWAY

MV MUIRGEN Scot and Laura Beebe 50′

8)

bird

Places where you may see the swallow-tailed gull on passage JUBEL

9)

Hitching a ride

Three tired birds on the boom – 200 nm left to go to the Galapagos

All the best on SY AURA Birgitta & Lasse – OE32′

10)

DAWN PATROL

here they come – the “invasion of marshmallows”

DAWN PATROL

SY DAWN PATROL Aney Laney – Outbound 46′

11)

uninvited visitors

…After our head suddenly stopped working, we took it apart and found this unwelcome visitor jammed in the intake valve. We pulled him out and dropped him back into the sea where he belongs.

Regards,

SY BRIGADOON III Doug & Patty Kennedy Saga 43′

12)

uninvited visitors

3 BIRDS ON A SOLARPANEL

zero dark thirty – full frontal night assault –SY PATHFINDER JP& Nicole – Lagoon 39′

13)

COME ON BOARD

SY PHOENIX Zack & – Balance 52′

14)

BIRDY

MY ALGONQUIN Diana & Lyle – Nordhavn 43′

15)

MOSQUITOES vs NO SEEMS

the hunt

SERNEITY

16)

This California seal may have been barking “Permission to come aboard?” Without reply from the Captain the seal got comfortable on the swim step.

SV WINE N DOWN Steve – Robertson and Cane 58′

17)

SY DO THE THING

Marjolaine & Francois- Dufor 43′

18)

Labelling these “Unwanted and Uninvited”

SY ROXXY Dennis & Kelly – Beneteau 52’

19)

Wasps making a nest on the underside of Maison de Sante’s solar panel….no thank you!

SY MAISON DE SANTÉ Nicole & Keenan- Cal 46′