Recent content by SimonC

And it\'s goodbye from him... As was originally leaked on this forum, and then officially announced on YBW, I'm leaving MBM. In about 10 minutes. I'd just like to say a big thank you to you all before I go. All your comments - and yes, your criticisms - have been invaluable to me over the...

Hi Paul We have already spoken to Dutch customs, the EU and the UK Government. You can see a brief summary of the results here. As you say, the situation is based on ignorance and, according to Dutch customs, once they receive a clear position from the UK they are happy to proceed as normal...

I was too busy looking at the blue sky to protect my fruit. It's an occupational hazard.

Nothing gets past you, eh Tom? Yes it's true, I'm leaving MBM. It's been great fun sitting in the Big Chair, but the time is right for me to pursue one or two other ambitions outside of journalism, before I get too old to do that kind of thing. Will there be musical chairs at IPC? I'm as...

Somewhere on a forum called bigboobs.com, there's someone complaining about how the Boobs of the World journalists are too poor to get big boobs themselves, and anyway, don't get enough time off to play with them. Most of them have said they'd like a go though.

Errr... hold on a minute Haydn. I've tried to stay out of this thread because, although the original post was critical and (in one or two respects) inaccurate, the thread as a whole has been pretty balanced and I think some interesting issues have been raised. However, you make quite clear...

Check your PM.

No, it can be taken any time.

Bias?? Don't you trust me?

No, it's an ongoing feature, which will be run in the mag on the Mailbag pages, with the RYA vouchers going to the best submission every month. I am enlisting the help of the forums to get it up and running...

Didn't want to put anyone off by getting too techy...! jpeg is preferred format, but we can also handle tiffs, psd and practically anything else you can name. My email will handle anything up to about 10Mb. Don't bother adjusting the colours, brightness, contrast, levels etc, because unless...

Hi We're launching a new feature where we publish readers' photos that they've taken while boating. The theme is pretty loose... pics of you enjoying yourself onboard, running shots of your boat (or someone else's), great scenery, pretty sunsets... you name it, really. The RYA has kindly...

Re: \'Ang on a minnit - did you notice??? Hold on a minute! [ QUOTE ] MBM Beneteau 37 Montecarlo test. Nice looking boat an' all but how far did you get in reading it before you stopped and said "No way Jose - I'm not buying that". [/ QUOTE ] Surely if the boat test was "an advertorial"...

It's definitely really important that we don't price anyone out of reading MBM. What kind of thing are you looking for? Secondhand tests of older/smaller boats? Smaller new boats? DIY/refurb articles? How to cut running costs? All of the above, or something else?

Plenty of good ideas here... Glad to hear that the owners' reports are popular... I've just been lining up a few more over the last couple of weeks, so there are some good ones in the pipeline. Re: boat tests, again, some useful comments and I've passed these on to Carl, who as deputy editor...