Cover pic? Really?
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prolly because that is how so many use their motorboat with a stick on it
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They are trying to be woke and a blond wasp is the closest representative they could find to actual wokeness?
Maybe someone who is curious could email the editor and inquire. Share the thread, he'll read it.
a. It sycs with an article.
b. Many sailors are boaters, and that's valid too. The last time on of my dockmates saw me going out a blustery day he pointed out that I'm a sailor and he's a cruiser. And sometimes you motor because there is somewhere you need to be.
b. Many sailors are boaters, and that's valid too. The last time on of my dockmates saw me going out a blustery day he pointed out that I'm a sailor and he's a cruiser. And sometimes you motor because there is somewhere you need to be.
I get all that. But the magazine is supposed to be aspirational, and there is NOTHING aspirational about that picture. It's not good sailing. It is not even good boating. And it's not a good photograph.
I have no desire to do that. They have their reasons, probably good ones from their perspective.
On the best cruise I ever had in my life, in local waters, we sailed only 50% of the time. The remainder of the underway time was motor sailing, or just plain motoring. Summer winds are typically flat to light in the morning, gradually building during the afternoon, and begin the "5 o'clock hurricane" just then. Such is a thermal driven prevailing breeze. That wind sequence is not conducive to leaving one harbor for the next stop, and having hook down by shower/cocktail time. Of course summer storms and Fall fronts change everything. Not complaining, believe me, just describing life on the southern New England coast.
I agree. It was the worst of all the pictures in the article. And it was a really lame poorly written article, too.
Perhaps, like the shoemakers kids, Onne takes a crappy photo of his own boat?
Just kidding. Look at the photo, there could be clues: First, the cover leads with Pearson 36-1. But they need an image of a 36 that will fit their vertical format. This is good, the narrow-angle of the boat from the stern.
Then they need a background for GOOD OLD BOAT that will let the letters stand out. They cropped the image so the name lands, just over the horizon, in a light background. This is key.
And last but not least (likely the most important point, in fact), GOB likes people sailing (ok, motor sailing) on their covers.
This was no photo shoot though,...
There's a pair of cheap sunglasses, an ancient Iphone 6 (I have one) and a copy of Duncan Ware and Fenn cruising guide of Southern New England. Whoa,... is that outdated (I have one of those too).
But then there is the redeeming copy of Maine Boats Harbors, etc. That is a little old, Sep. 2016, and curiously the cover shot was by Mendlowitz.
Just kidding. Look at the photo, there could be clues: First, the cover leads with Pearson 36-1. But they need an image of a 36 that will fit their vertical format. This is good, the narrow-angle of the boat from the stern.
Then they need a background for GOOD OLD BOAT that will let the letters stand out. They cropped the image so the name lands, just over the horizon, in a light background. This is key.
And last but not least (likely the most important point, in fact), GOB likes people sailing (ok, motor sailing) on their covers.
This was no photo shoot though,...
There's a pair of cheap sunglasses, an ancient Iphone 6 (I have one) and a copy of Duncan Ware and Fenn cruising guide of Southern New England. Whoa,... is that outdated (I have one of those too).
But then there is the redeeming copy of Maine Boats Harbors, etc. That is a little old, Sep. 2016, and curiously the cover shot was by Mendlowitz.
It’s a blonde in a boat with the sun out in March. Good enough for me. I’m currently bobbing around in Commencement Bay, no wind and it’s starting to rain.....