A Seadoo Cover beauty contest is the last thing I expected to see at a race. All of the racers, including myself are keen to get those covers off and get on to the water! However, a few months before the tournament I mentioned to the organizers that I had started a seadoo pwc cover blog and that seemed to pique their interest. The next thing I knew the organizers included an optional cover contest at dusk on Saturday evening.
The seadoo cover industry is a huge industry. The individual machine manufacturers hope to make up to 50% of their annual profit in brand marked after sales. After market products include covers, stickers, t-shirts, hats, etc. It can be anything that can hold a logo. There are also independent marine cover retailers offer all sorts of covers and can customize them for you. The most successful riders are sponsored by a number of different products and businesses and their covers are covered in different logos. Although loathe to admit it, most riders take their seadoo pwc covers very seriously.
When I asked around Saturday morning, no one would admit to wanting to enter the contest. I did not mention that I would be blogging about it as I thought that might deter people even further. After all, the whole idea was a bit novel and inconsistent with the macho sport of personal watercraft racing.
Needless to say, no one pre-registered for the cover contest. However, as dusk rolled around and everyone was chatting with the other competitors and their crew the idea of a cover contest seemed to be a fun idea. Some of the guys were saying that they wouldn’t enter the contest but if they did their new custom designed seadoo covers would undoubtedly win. As the evening wore on the claims became more insistent even amongst crew. It was decided that mechanics or even friends or relatives could enter the seadoo covers even if the athletes were not inclined to.
In the end, a guy from Wasaga Beach won the contest. He had a custom detailed cover with embroidered flames on each side. On the nose he had a graffiti style logo that combined the name of his machine with his own last name. The cover itself was a mid-blue with thick black stitching. Admittedly, it was a very nice cover and it was definitely top three in my opinion.
We all agreed that it was a fun addition to the tournament. Some of the competitors were already talking about the covers they might design over the winter months in preparation for next year’s beauty contest. I didn’t bring my camera to the tournament so don’t have any pictures to post. The tournament was a lot of high energy racing with good friends and had the added addition of featuring seadoo pwc covers.
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