cgull
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I was disappointed to see no mention of the Jaguar 24 in the feature on Jaguars this month.
August ym secondhand feature
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jamesjermain
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I simply didn\'t have room for them all. Sorry. nm
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JJ
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steve_cronin
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You can\'t please all of the etc...
but as I sat reading said volume this morning in my usual location, I thought what a splendid collection of articles there was AND all about places I either knew well, wanted to visit or had visited long ago.
I found it to be one of their better editions well done Ms Norbury AND I congratulate you on your stance against unneccessary certification & qualifications.
Steve Cronin
but as I sat reading said volume this morning in my usual location, I thought what a splendid collection of articles there was AND all about places I either knew well, wanted to visit or had visited long ago.
I found it to be one of their better editions well done Ms Norbury AND I congratulate you on your stance against unneccessary certification & qualifications.
Steve Cronin
ParaHandy
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Re: You can\'t please all of the etc...
you've been dringing again? You're winding us up.......or else will cost me £3.20 or so to go out an buy it.
you've been dringing again? You're winding us up.......or else will cost me £3.20 or so to go out an buy it.
Aja
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Re: I simply didn\'t have room for them all. Sorry. nm
Also dissapointed that no mention of Jeanneau Rush either, considering that Yachting World did an article on its arrival in the UK.
Donald
Also dissapointed that no mention of Jeanneau Rush either, considering that Yachting World did an article on its arrival in the UK.
Donald
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Re: You can\'t please all of the etc...
I thought it was supposed to be comprehensive and given that it is going on over so many months/years surely the attraction lies not in the speed you get it/its brevity etc. but the fully comprehensivness of it so all boats should be put in. Without it being comprehensive (over use of that word but I blame that on a comprehensive education!) where is its point?
I thought it was supposed to be comprehensive and given that it is going on over so many months/years surely the attraction lies not in the speed you get it/its brevity etc. but the fully comprehensivness of it so all boats should be put in. Without it being comprehensive (over use of that word but I blame that on a comprehensive education!) where is its point?
jamesjermain
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Before I die...
I entirely take your point Tom. However, I would ask you to take the following mitigating circumstances into consideration.
As it is, the series is due to run into 2004 which is a hell of a long time for any editor to commit four valuable editorial pages (Sarah, shut your ears for a moment please!).
I have already decided not to cover boats built before 1960 except in very rare cases and even 1960s designs have to be either very plentiful or rather special. I suppose I am covering perhaps a quarter of the designs sold in the UK during the sixties. Of designs launched in the seventies and eighties the coverage rises to, perhaps, a half.
When you actually look back, there has been a staggering number of designs built in large and small quantities. A book published in 1988 covering boats from 1960 to 1987 listed just under 1,000 by then out of production plus 300 currently in production - and that list is by no means complete. I would put the figures closer to 2,000 and 600. At the rate of 15 a month even 1,000 would take five and a half years to cover before we even got to the 90s. This would add another thousand or so.
To make the exercise realistic, I have had to be selective and use one design to represent others from a given manufacturers range. I accept that I have, and will, miss out big selling boats and designs close to some readers hearts. I hope that at the end of the project, there willbe an opportunity to publish retrospective reports on the really important ones I have missed.
I calculate that a complete list, including boats coming onto the second hand market between 2000 and 2010 would take 20 years to complete (plus 5 years for those between 2010 and 2020, plus...).
I fancy doing something else before I die!
JJ
I entirely take your point Tom. However, I would ask you to take the following mitigating circumstances into consideration.
As it is, the series is due to run into 2004 which is a hell of a long time for any editor to commit four valuable editorial pages (Sarah, shut your ears for a moment please!).
I have already decided not to cover boats built before 1960 except in very rare cases and even 1960s designs have to be either very plentiful or rather special. I suppose I am covering perhaps a quarter of the designs sold in the UK during the sixties. Of designs launched in the seventies and eighties the coverage rises to, perhaps, a half.
When you actually look back, there has been a staggering number of designs built in large and small quantities. A book published in 1988 covering boats from 1960 to 1987 listed just under 1,000 by then out of production plus 300 currently in production - and that list is by no means complete. I would put the figures closer to 2,000 and 600. At the rate of 15 a month even 1,000 would take five and a half years to cover before we even got to the 90s. This would add another thousand or so.
To make the exercise realistic, I have had to be selective and use one design to represent others from a given manufacturers range. I accept that I have, and will, miss out big selling boats and designs close to some readers hearts. I hope that at the end of the project, there willbe an opportunity to publish retrospective reports on the really important ones I have missed.
I calculate that a complete list, including boats coming onto the second hand market between 2000 and 2010 would take 20 years to complete (plus 5 years for those between 2010 and 2020, plus...).
I fancy doing something else before I die!
JJ
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Re: Before I die...
Please do not get me wrong - I regularly look at those pages first and do like them greatly
I will buy the book should there be one!
Please do not get me wrong - I regularly look at those pages first and do like them greatly
I will buy the book should there be one!