SpinSheet Magazine’s October 2024 Issues Marks Its 350th – Highlighting Chesapeake Sailors Every Month Since 1995
Whether you hold this issue of SpinSheet in your hands or flip through it digitally, imagine how it came to be. Imagine two ambitious 20-something sailors starting a business out of a rented apartment. Now picture them—neither having ever created a magazine—figuring out how to do so, how to find paying advertisers, and how to drum up community support. Now 29-plus years later, that magazine comes out again, and again, every month until the numbers add up to 350 issues! October marks our 350th SpinSheet.
Consider that each issue is eight inches wide and that last year we averaged just over 100 pages per issue; let’s multiply that by 350, convert inches to feet, and see how much ground we covered. You could place every issue of SpinSheet side by side across the Pride of Baltimore 150 times. Three-hundred-fifty SpinSheets would reach 130 times up to the top of the Maryland State House; 65 times across the football field at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium; and more than twice around all the docks at the Annapolis Sailboat Show. It’s a massive archive of Chesapeake sailing coverage. We are proud of it.
We’re proud of being one of only two sailing magazines in the country to still print 12 issues per year (here’s looking at you, Latitude 38!). We’re proud of our team’s tireless efforts to stay on top of the Chesapeake scene and celebrate regional sailors in photos and stories so that they can feel like the rock stars they are.
We’re wildly proud of our in-house staff of a dozen, countless outside writers and photographers, and our distribution driving team. We could not survive without our readers. They bring us endless story ideas, photos, and anecdotes from the sailing community from Havre de Grace to Norfolk; they also let us know when we could do better. Last but not least, we’re grateful for our advertisers, without whom we couldn’t afford to print one issue, let alone 350. Without our advertisers there would be no SpinSheet.
Thank you for being part of the Chesapeake’s only sailing magazine. We look forward to celebrating our 30th anniversary with you in 2025! ~M.W.
