Sailing the Northeast Good Grades for the Sound! 25 Years of Whitebread Holiday Gift Guide Jud's a Stud November/December 2018 • FREE windcheckmagazine.com publisher's log Experiencing the Joy of Sailing…and Giving! Sailing the Northeast Issue 181 Hmmmm…so much to talk about. Let’s begin with the issue you’re holding in your Publisher hands. It is the last WindCheck of 2018. It’s also the shortest in terms of pages. But Benjamin Cesare it might be the best one of my tenure. We tackled a number of large projects for
[email protected] this “two-month” issue and I am extremely proud of the WindCheck team on how they came out. First up, we put a ribbon on the “Optimist vs What” conversation as Publisher Emerita Anne Hannan promised after my Publisher’s Log in September. This conversation certainly is not
[email protected] going to end here, but we gathered and synthesized a lot of perspectives to share. I think the biggest takeaway is for people to really focus on what the goals are for in- Editor-at-Large troducing young people to our sport and how we’re going to measure success. There Christopher Gill
[email protected] are a few “pro” Opti submissions in the Letters section this month (juxtaposing the less enthusiastic ones from October) and we gathered still more input for the article Senior Editor on page 34. We thank Bob Whittredge from the Junior Sailing Association of Long Chris Szepessy Island Sound (JSA), who supported our research and forwarded a “mission state-
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