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The Proof Is in the Plates

Earlier this month, we asked the Latitude Nation to share their sailing license plates.

Here’s one from Paul and Chrissy Kaplan. “[This was the] very first generation of vanity plates,” Chrissy wrote. “We think this is the 10th vehicle, at least, that has worn this plate. Never giving it up!”

One of the first vanity plates in the 1980s California-Golden-State blue and gold.
© 2019 Chrissy Kaplan

“I’d like to remain anonymous,” said this next entry. ‘I was swiftly punished for having a vanity plate by a certain sailmaker who said it doesn’t say Singlehand but Snugglehound!

To be fair, we’re sure that most singlehanders are eventually snugglehounds, as well.
© 2019 Anonymous

“The Arizona license plate is on my truck,” wrote David Allocco of the Capri 22 Summer Nights in Phoenix.

“Someone in Kansas had the same idea,” David added.

Let’s all take a moment, Nation, to be delighted at how well represented sailing is on landlocked states’ license plates.
© 2019 David Allocco

Jeff Chamberlain wrote: “Well, it’s not so much a ‘plate’, as a license plate holder, but I thought I’d send it along anyway.”

Admittedly, it took us a minute to figure out how 6YVW447 was sailing-related. “That is some serious inside baseball,” we thought. Then we reread David’s email, and finally honed in on the holder.
© 2019 Jeff Chamberlain

And finally, we saw the rear end of the plate that got this whole thread started.

The OG sailing plate.
© 2019 Latitude 38 Media LLC / John
So do we!
© 2019 Latitude 38 Media LLC / Mitch

Thanks for playing license to sail, everyone. Don’t worry — like baseball (or cricket), the game never really ends. If you have or have seen a sailing plate, please let us know by emailing us here.

1 Comment

  1. Rudy Salazar 4 years ago

    Does the Pt Arguello Yacht Club guy realize that Destroyer Rock is at the Point? (site of the 1913 USN disaster, 7 destroyers on the rocks as well as numerous other wrecks over the years)

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