The current hero as baseline, then five rebuilt directions — each a drop-in replacement using the locked copy, palette, and mark. Judge scores and honest weaknesses under each name. Scroll, compare, pick.
baselineCurrent herowhat's live todayCompetent but brand-first: the big wordmark repeats the nav, the message sits low, and there's no single visual moment. This is the bar to clear.
#1 · recommendedType broadside8.5/10Best 3-second clarity of the five: the H1 at poster scale (clamp 46-110px, three locked lines, red reserved for 'one.') makes the message itself the visual moment, which is exactly the baseline's failing inverted. Weakness: The signature SVG hardcodes hex colors (#E7A31C, #17232E, #C41E22) while everything else uses CSS variables — an inconsistency that will bite any future theming pass; should be fixed pre-ship.
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#2The instrument7.5/10The strongest visual moment in the set, and it's an argument, not decoration — the tacking dial literally diagrams 'headwinds still mean forward', which is the brand thesis. Weakness: The dial demands decoding — WIND, NO-GO wedge, degree ticks assume sailing literacy a marketing buyer may not have, so half the fold is spent on a metaphor that lands only on second read; it flirts with gimmick even if it's an earned one.
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#3On the horizon7/10Most brand-faithful composition: sells the nautical frame purely through the horizon device and negative space with zero nautical vocabulary in the copy — real restraint. Weakness: Quietest first impression of the five — the load-bearing empty sky reads as elegant to a design director and as 'unfinished' to a cold visitor on a wide monitor; the boat is small and right-of-center, so the visual moment may simply be missed.
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#4Open water6/10Genuine first-impression impact: the only candidate that changes the room, and the red CTA on navy-deep gets contrast it can never have on pearl. Weakness: Two real defects: the byline uses var(--ink-3) — a light-theme muted ink — on navy-deep, so 'Daniel Cozma' is likely near-invisible / a WCAG failure; and there is no prefers-reduced-motion handling despite four infinite animations including a constant 3.2s wave drift.
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#5The big One5.5/10The monumental-mark concept is the most poster-like idea in the set, and 'the one IS the brand' is a smart layout argument. Weakness: Fragile in exactly the way the brief penalizes: the mark is height:100% with width:auto, so at a ~680px hero it renders ~525px wide inside the same wrap as a 560px copy block — in the 961px-to-max viewport range the full-opacity red pennant sits directly behind the eyebrow/H1 zone with ink text over it, a live contrast collision the 960px breakpoint arrives too late to prevent.
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Brand, web, content, acquisition, ops. The work of a whole marketing team, run by one person who owns the result. One point of contact. One person accountable. I handle the acronyms. You focus on your business.