Sailing Rags

[sailinmike]

Another Good Old Boat. It best fits my real world sailing life. But I must confess the Wooden Boat Calender is always in my Christmas stocking.

 

[Tom G P-21]

Long time subscriber to "Messing About in Boats". Most articles are submitted by readers, very low key black and white magazine.

 

[DAVA390]

GOB for working, Sailing for dreaming.

 

[gettinthere]

I dont understand the complaints about advertising in magazines. How do you think these magazines make money? Or perhaps they should do this for free?

If you dont like the content of a magazine, fine dont read it.

But there is no law that says you have to read the ads or buy that stuff.

Be thankful the suckers who buy the ads exist. They are funding those rags.

 

[RECESS]

One of the reasons I pay for Good Old Boat is there is a lot of content and not very many ads. Plus the content is very interesting to me and always well written.

 

[thinwater]

I used to get lats and atts when it was still in publication. I enjoyed it....

Actually, he's back in business:

http://cruisingoutpost.com/

Not what I would call tightly edited, but Sail's infomercials bore me (can't ever trust a review) and the "What we did right" stories are just laughers. I consider it a light diversion to read few times each year. I actually enjoy watching real people try to write; some succeed, some don't.

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The thing of it is, most mags are targeted to relative new comers and buyers. If you write a technical article targeted for experienced owners, the editors trim it to fit and dumb it down. And so they should, for their target audience.

And have you EVER known 2 sailors to agree on how to do anything?