The Active Interest Media Marine Group announced the appointment of Wendy Mitman Clarke as editor-in-chief of Sail magazine.
A lifelong sailor and marine-industry veteran, Mitman Clarke is an award-winning writer and editor whose marine career began when she left the Associated Press to become Mid-Atlantic bureau chief for Soundings — a magazine she recently returned to as a freelance writer. (Soundings and Soundings Trade Only are part of the AIM Marine Group.)
After Soundings, she rose from writer to executive editor at Chesapeake Bay magazine. When she and her family left Annapolis, Md., to cruise full time aboard their 45-foot Adams sloop for four-and-a-half years, she documented her experiences in a monthly Cruising World column.
Most recently Mitman Clarke was senior editor of Good Old Boat, as well as a science writer for Maryland Sea Grant College. She has been a consistent winner in the annual Boating Writers International writing contest, and in 2002 she won the BoatUS Monk Farnum Award for Excellence in Editorial Commentary.
“Sailors, by nature, are a tight-knit community with a language and culture all their own. To lead a brand like Sail, we needed to find someone who is both a media professional and someone who lives and breathes that pastime,” said AIM Marine Group editorial director Dan Harding. “Wendy checks those boxes and then some. I can’t wait to see where she steers the Sail brand.”
“I’m thrilled that Active Interest Media has asked me to take the helm of Sail,” Mitman Clarke says. “I grew up reading this magazine. It has always been inspirational, and it’s a real honor to become part of this team and this magazine’s legacy.”
Mitman Clarke is based on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, with Chesapeake Bay as her home waters.
