Right from the start the name 'Windsong' was established as front and centre.. Even when John Owles showed me the first design concept there was the name 'Windsong' sitting nicely at the top right of the page. Come to think of it, it had 'Windsong 14' even though we were considering it as a twelve foot boat to begin with. Once Mcnamara Sails had designed and made the main and jib we had to think about the insignia, well before we were thinking about websites, brochures and the rest. The 'Treble Clef' design came to John and I during one of our many conversation outside on the clangy metal chairs with coffee in the boatyard. We liked 3 colours which echo the place here; the sand, the sun and the water (yellow, orange and blue) and of course we needed the musical element. The bass clef has been a great pleasure to us and we refer to it as 'the monkey' sometimes. It's unusual and eye catching but it also has a really interesting quality when seen on the water...sort of almost out of place. Windsong is an unusual and thrilling phenomenon that is clearly different to all other dinghies on the water. We like to think that out on the water with the insignia up on the exquisite and powerful rig, keeps that dialogue going right through the harbour.... 'What IS that boat?'
HCW Summer '24
Indeed, you are quite correct. It should read Treble Clef
No Base Clefs were captured or mistreated during the creation of the Windsong insignia.
The write up on the Insignia mentions the Treble Clef and it mentions the Bass clef as well. Only the Treble is used.