My Shark Shirt

I need a few new T-shirts.   My once mighty collection of wind and water-related T-shirts was assembled 8-15 years ago, and it’s gone from “new and great” to “nicely worn in and great” to “old classics and great” and then lately “into the rag bag”.    Ravaged by time, as it were.

So imagine my excitement when the fashion editor of the Peconic Puffin was approached by Rapanui, a mega-green pro-nature organic low carbon footprint solar and wind powered (get the picture?) manufacturer of (amongst other things) t shirts.  They’re about being kind to seeds and sustainability and surfing and the oceans, and they reached out to see if we’d be interested in mentioning their wind and wave and critter-friendly products in the blog.   They have a “Save Our Seas” t-shirt (half the profits from it go to the UK’s Marine Conservation Society) so I asked for a review shirt.   Clever me!   Or so I thought.

It’s a shark shirt.  Sharks.  Why’d it have to be sharks?   I dislike sharks.   I’ve never met one I liked. They have a right to exist, certainly, can they please exist far away from me?   No, now I have sharks in my dresser drawer.   Upon closer inspection they’re not really sharks, but the shape of sharks filled with fish and octopi and crabs and rays and seaweed and so forth.   All good stuff I’m happy to windsurf or SUP around.   Therefore okay I like the shirt.  100% organic cotton, hand printed, Fairwear Foundation audited, with an A ecolabel.

And sharks.   They had to be sharks.

Comments

[jas]

Dude, sharks are AMAZING and they're not out to get you. believe me.

[Michael]

Cool, dude, but did you click on the link ("I've never met a shark I liked"?) I've had the experience of being considered by a shark, and it was no fun at all. What is fun and cool and great is the t shirt!