Who’s Who at Latitude?
Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with friends and family, as well as your favorite sailing magazine. We don’t bombard fans of our Facebook page with multiple daily posts, mainly because we’re usually too busy putting together the magazine or ‘Lectronic but also because it can be downright annoying. While we like to think every post has some value to readers, the latest was purely in our self-interest.
For about six years now, there’s been tremendous confusion about whether LaDonna Bubak is a clever nom de plume for Doña de Mallorca. After all, the names are very similar. Though the question has been answered in the magazine — more than once — a surprising number of readers still guess wrong. So we thought we’d find out exactly how many by having our Facebook fans answer this poll:
Editor LaDonna Bubak and Ha-Ha Head of Security Doña de Mallorca are:
- One in the same.
- Two different people.
Almost one-third of the folks who responded said that LaDonna and Doña are one in the same. Some might think the glass is half empty with those numbers, but we prefer to be happy two-thirds know that we are, in fact, two different people.
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Doña de Mallorca, a.k.a. Donna Andre, is the longtime girlfriend of the Wanderer, a.k.a. Richard Spindler, and doesn’t write for the magazine. She’s also the skipper of Profligate, the Head of Security for the Baja Ha-Ha, and a savvy businesswoman. LaDonna Bubak — that’s me — is Editor for Latitude 38, co-Doodette for the Delta Doo Dah, and has never slept with the boss.
Congratulations to Melissa Davids for winning a Latitude hat for submitting her answer in the poll (for the record, she got it right)! Be sure to ‘like’ our Facebook page to keep up on all sorts of sailing content, including the occasional inane contest.