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The Week contest: Sail fail

This week's question: A couple from Colorado with little sailing experience quit their jobs and spent all their savings on a 28-foot sailboat for a trip around the world, only to sink the vessel within sight of land shortly after leaving Florida. If the couple were to write a memoir about their exceptionally short ocean adventure, what could they call the book?

Click here to see the results of last week's contest: Space snack

RESULTS:

THE WINNER: "20,000 Dollars Under the Sea"
Angela Trodello, Chandler, Ariz.

SECOND PLACE: "Reef encounter"
James Smith, New York City

THIRD PLACE: "Born to Run Aground"
Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Fla.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

"The Year of Magical Sinking"
Renée Rauch, New York City

"Aqua-Nots"
Lee Heintz, Vernon, N.Y.

"We Sank Everything into What We Sunk"
Martha Davis, Lavonia, Ga.

"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
Gile Downes, Portland, Ore.

"Know, Know, Know Your Boat"
Bonnie Neilan, Cambridge, Mass.

"Kon-Leaky"
Doug Goodwin, Westerville, Ohio

"Ship Happens"
Janine Witte, New Hope, Pa.

"Sinking off the Dock on the Bay"
Ellen Meier, Carlsbad, Calif.

"Our 15 Minutes of Foam"
Jim Lundberg, Quakertown, Pa.

"How It All Went Down"
Jon Plotkin, Hull, Mass.

"Out of Our Depth"
Karen Levin, Arnold, Md.

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