It’s kind of fun to say that. It’s also a little embarrassing not to notice it sooner. So, a little research had to be done. It is definitely contest-worthy. Name the sailor who has appeared on the cover of WindCheck two months in a row. As I said, it’s the first time ever…as far as we know. To confirm, you may have to contact Chris Gill or Anne Hannan, but it would be mean to share their contact info in this forum…ya gotta dig!
OK, so what’s the prize? Obviously, there are Opti sailors on the cover this month. Should the prize be one of Matt Cesare’s old Opti bow spray covers that comes direct from the bowels of the garage, complete with a family of brown recluse spiders? (They can be handy allies when asking for room in dicey situations.) Or perhaps the prize should be something related to the arts, since both magazine covers were executed by Chief Designer Kerstin Fairbend (who has done every cover since the dawn and might know if we had duplicate persons month to month, but not necessarily) along with photography provided by the inimitable Rick Bannerot, who, not being involved with the choice of art for the cover, would not be blamed for missing this milestone.
Back to the spiders for a moment. I am reminded that my teammate, Jay Lurie, (sorry Jay, but the whole privacy thing is so far out the window…) and I sailed Interclub frostbite dinghies in the 2023-’24 season with a spider named Bob. He was well behaved and probably gave us an edge. We are “older” than most of the competition yet we got third in the Nationals with Bob’s karmic edge. He kind of smacked us down though when Jay pronounced on the first beat of the last race that we were going to win the regatta…ouch. Big lefty and…well, Bob gave us a lesson in humility. “Don’t count your spiders until the race is done.”
Alright, back to the contest. Write to contact@windcheckmagazine.com with the answer. That way both Zep and I will see it. And you will win something fabulous. Like a trip to the I-420 Worlds in Someplace Cool.
(Editor’s Note: This was so obviously written without the benefit of Chat GPT or any other AI that we apologize for its content in advance.)
See you on the water…with Bob!
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Benjamin V. Cesare
ben@windcheckmagazine.com
