Quality issues

You have multiple issues in your pictures.

The boats:

IP Violation: You know that you will need to get rid of the logos, boat names and numbers, and that every where in the picture? 

The picture is so soft, I do not see the focus point.

The shadows (right) needs to be lightened up and the highlights (left) have to be dimmed.

Artefacts:

Look at the colours of the flags:

(and the light fringe around the flag).

Mode release: Happily, your processing made all the people unrecognizable, or you would have had to supply a model release from each of them.

See view:

Model release needed:

Quality issues: suspicious blur:

Artefacts (due to overprocessing):

 Missing and washed out details.

Leaning image: makes me seasick.

Square:

You need model releases from so many people:

 Quality issues:

There is no structure left:

Artefacts:

You will need to edit this out (IP violation):

(besides the artefacts in the image)

Basically, you over processed your images, and as such, the multiple quality issues did nothing good to these images and they were an easy reject. But without the quality issues, the first and last asset would still be impossible to get through, because of the multiple model releases needed and the numerous IP violations on the first image.