The End of Time (1) by Rowen
The frigate, closely followed by a uncommon fast, trim clipper, beat into the channel with a clear ferocity, surprising the wheeling flocks of seabirds used to the relatively calm, unfocused hubbub of work parties loading stores, small boats plying up and down with mail and messages, bum boats. Officers and men alike were busy, even in the increasingly driving wind and rain, with urgent repairs, putting the squadron to rights in preparation for tomorrow's expected fair wind. Briseis had finally arrived and it was no secret that Commodore Aubrey intended to sail with the first tide.
A Boat at the Pigtail Steps (2) by Warren Godfrey
Save for the sometimes whir of the refrigerator and the tick clack of the patented baseboard radiator along the far wall the room was quiet, and dark where no light seeped from the streets below.
Far off a nighttime muffled voice bid someone 'Goodbye' or 'Hello' and a car door slammed once and again. Someone home or gone home.
Captain pro tem (3) by Anthony Patton
The same pilot had returned and so too his soliloquy of unwise ships' masters arriving or departing Gibraltar, the difference weighed between the cost of a ship and a pilot's fee (his hands leaving the wheel to illustrate), and the obligatory demise of these ships of inopportune thrift, stories chock full of gore.
Other entries
The Adventure of the Cutty Sark by Eric S. Raymond
Blue, Only Blue, and Just Blue by Annie Roberts
Captain Jack Aubrey Carries Out His Daily Custom Upon Arising at Sea in Good Weather and No Sharks Being Apparent by Bruce Helmboldt
Clash of the Titans by Greg Menke
A Conversation in the Foretop by Ted Browne
The Floating Sheet by Martin Watts
A Great Reform by Martin Watts
The Hidden Heart by Jim Reilly
Kensington, 1824 by Mary M. Stolzenbach
The Leeward Shore by Bill Holmes
Meeting At Downing Street by Keith Peterson
The Morning After by Lisa Kyono
No Vampires by Bill Nyden
Object of Wonder by Yvonne Soy
An Ocean of Stars by Chris Alderson
A Salty Story by Michael R. Ward
The Shan Van Vocht by John Finneran
Sophie's Struggle by Jessey Seiler
The Story of a Flaming Falsehood by Charles Muñoz
Summer Morning by Jenspen
An Unaccustomed Place by Warren Godfrey
Unnatural History by Scott MacPhee