Nostrodamus
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IPC could run it as a competition with the answer the following month. That might please Richard Shead.
And the 1st prize would be??
Content for sailing magazine?
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And the 1st prize would be??
Little Five
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Richard Shead
Slipped Anchor
Ummm.... you get to please Richard Shead
And there ain't many people that get to do that ....
AngusMcDoon
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I think there should be a monthly article in PBO on making your own boat electronic devices. There could even be a free PCB sellotaped to the cover.
Nostrodamus
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I think there should be a monthly article in PBO on making your own boat electronic devices. There could even be a free PCB sellotaped to the cover.
What.. taped over one of Snooks photos !!!
Koeketiene
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+1
When walking through a marina, occasionally the Mrs or I point out an unusual, beautiful boat which really stands out. Or a boat with unusual features. Things that make you think: 'why have they done this', or 'I wonder how that works'.
More tests/reviews of that kind of boats; and none of the usual, bland, 13 to a dozen gobs of snot
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Puggy
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Please can we have a more upbeat tone for Yachting Monthly for a while? The crash boat test and seacocks campaign left me exhausted with worry and my wife is starting to question the whole rationale (she might have a point...). Some positive articles on fun and interesting things to do or places to go. PBOs excellent sail round Britain article and Dylan Winter's superb article on ditch crawling were a good antidote.
Ex-SolentBoy
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Hi Graham
Thanks for that. Had never heard of Zinio. Looked it up on the net and seems very good. I know exactly what you mean by having a copy in hand, so much easier than taking the laptop to the loo.
Thats why you should buy an iPad.
Sandyman
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+1
When walking through a marina, occasionally the Mrs or I point out an unusual, beautiful boat which really stands out. Or a boat with unusual features. Things that make you think: 'why have they done this', or 'I wonder how that works'.
More tests/reviews of that kind of boats; and none of the usual, bland, 13 to a dozen gobs of snot
Good ideas Sir' but need to remember they are advertising/selling to the mass market who mostly own ''13 to a dozen gobs of snot''
Time to get out of the hole & get some sea time in
Koeketiene
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Good ideas Sir' but need to remember they are advertising/selling to the mass market who mostly own ''13 to a dozen gobs of snot''
In the perfect world I live in
, I tend not to worry/think about squalid things like advertising, revenue and business model.Time to get out of the hole & get some sea time in
Alas, no more sea time for me on the horizon. Condemned to stay down the hole for a while yet - last posting prior to retirement.
binch
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Good copy
Do you know, I enjoyed Yachting Monthly more as it was in the 1940's and fifties, than I do now.
I suspect it is because the mag had a very small staff, and those that were, were yotties before being part-time journalists. Even the editors etc were eminent yotties that we had all heard of outside their journals.
Yachting World was even more toffee-nosed than at present. I think the editor was known as Bookstall-Smith and most of the articles were written by double-barrellled, but what was very important was that they published an excellent series of design supplements, each with enough detail to give me a good grounding in yacht design. This feature should be revived.
Do you know, I enjoyed Yachting Monthly more as it was in the 1940's and fifties, than I do now.
I suspect it is because the mag had a very small staff, and those that were, were yotties before being part-time journalists. Even the editors etc were eminent yotties that we had all heard of outside their journals.
Yachting World was even more toffee-nosed than at present. I think the editor was known as Bookstall-Smith and most of the articles were written by double-barrellled, but what was very important was that they published an excellent series of design supplements, each with enough detail to give me a good grounding in yacht design. This feature should be revived.
ChattingLil
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I like the practical stuff in 'tear-out' sections that doesn't have the start of another topic on the reverse side. Does that make sense?
ie I buy the mags, but don't keep them. Read them for entertainment and then I tear out the bits I think I may need to refer to in the future and file them as relevant.
ie I buy the mags, but don't keep them. Read them for entertainment and then I tear out the bits I think I may need to refer to in the future and file them as relevant.
Little Five
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Thats why it would be such an attractive prize, Richard. Readers would enter in their thousands. Imagine the crowning glory for YM with the article and full colour photos on the Prize Giving.
Evadne
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I enjoyed YM and PBO more in the 80s than I do now, because a lot of what they told me was new to me and interesting. Today, if something is interesting but I already know about it, re-reading holds less appeal. Also, anyone stepping on board my boat would be forgiven for thinking they have been transported back to the 60s or 70s, articles on electronic gizmos are of interest professionally, but not as a part of my sailing. Perhaps as I get older and start to forget more, their appeal will grow again...
Lakesailor
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Quite few people who enjoyed magazines 30 or more years ago.
Sorry, but you are way out of date. The magazines you enjoyed either have changed to meet the current financial pressures or have disappeared beneath the choppy waters of publishing.
You won't get it back.
Sorry, but you are way out of date. The magazines you enjoyed either have changed to meet the current financial pressures or have disappeared beneath the choppy waters of publishing.
You won't get it back.
dylanwinter
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Small Craft Advisor
I write a column for a magazine in the states called small craft advisor
take a look at their front covers
http://smallcraftadvisor.com/
they take the front images very seriously
pay a truly terrible $100 a thousand for my bon mots
but I get some really crazy emails, and occasionally real letters, from their readers.
so that makes it worth while
dylan
I write a column for a magazine in the states called small craft advisor
take a look at their front covers
http://smallcraftadvisor.com/
they take the front images very seriously
pay a truly terrible $100 a thousand for my bon mots
but I get some really crazy emails, and occasionally real letters, from their readers.
so that makes it worth while
dylan
Lakesailor
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Do they rely mainly on subscription?
Many small magazines had to pull out of the retail market when sale-or-return became almost mandatory.
Start a mag like that in the UK. Make sod all. Spend your rainy-day savings, fold.
Happens all the time.
£100 a page seems about where it's at in the UK.
Many small magazines had to pull out of the retail market when sale-or-return became almost mandatory.
Start a mag like that in the UK. Make sod all. Spend your rainy-day savings, fold.
Happens all the time.
£100 a page seems about where it's at in the UK.
dylanwinter
Active member
Mostly subs
But they also use the news stands - airports, some supermarkets etc
no idea what the circulation is
In the USA among the sailors of small boats I make Cunliffe look like a pigmy
Dylan
But they also use the news stands - airports, some supermarkets etc
no idea what the circulation is
In the USA among the sailors of small boats I make Cunliffe look like a pigmy
Dylan
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ianat182
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With reference to Yachting Monthly I rather enjoyed the Annual hard cover book they published back in the mid and late 50's which included articles written by the designers of the day,Colin Mudie, Ian Proctor, Illingworth and others,gave all the World yacht and Dinghy and Championship winners and really good reporting on the major events. Added to these gems were the new 'leading edge' designs that were launched, with lines plans and data. These latter were also given for then recent dinghy designs 505's, International 14, Ospreys etc
Eileen Ramsey photographs amongst others, on art paper,gave a quality feel to the whole.
We still have a few of these annuals at my club for members enjoyment, together with another old publication the Lloyds Register of Shipping, which included many yachts and their particulars of tonnage and ownership etc. Do they still publish these?
No doubt a lot of work will be done to consider an electronic publication to be available via the more advanced Kindle or E-devices, which are not quite there yet in reproducing photography and clear lines plans; but this device would satisfy the searchers of archived articles on their boat or DIY problem, with an appropriate fee to view via Amazon, Gutenburg etc, or IPC's own website.
ianat182
Eileen Ramsey photographs amongst others, on art paper,gave a quality feel to the whole.
We still have a few of these annuals at my club for members enjoyment, together with another old publication the Lloyds Register of Shipping, which included many yachts and their particulars of tonnage and ownership etc. Do they still publish these?
No doubt a lot of work will be done to consider an electronic publication to be available via the more advanced Kindle or E-devices, which are not quite there yet in reproducing photography and clear lines plans; but this device would satisfy the searchers of archived articles on their boat or DIY problem, with an appropriate fee to view via Amazon, Gutenburg etc, or IPC's own website.
ianat182
reginaldon
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Surely there's a gap in the market here that a similar publication might fill.