Remember SpinSheet's Top 10 Lists?
As we celebrate 30 years of SpinSheet Magazine, take a walk down memory lane with us as we remember the old days of the Chesapeake’s one and only sailing magazine for and by Chesapeake Bay sailors...
Popularized by the “David Letterman Show” and “sailor-ized” and perfected by SpinSheet founding editor Dave Gendell, top 10 lists were a well-loved staple of early issues of SpinSheet. A dozen years later, after Dave made a career change, we attempted to revive the lists and discovered that we weren’t funny enough to pull it off.
The list below came from our July 1997 issue following a news bit about the Tradewinds YC and Tradewinds Casino and Sports Book of Costa Rica accepting bets on offshore sailboat racing:
What do you remember best about early issues of SpinSheet? Send a note to [email protected] to tell us about it. Thanks for sailing and reading locally!
