December YM Brilliant

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After Snooks hint that there would be more detail of the keel dropping hire boat and the discussion on here about the facts around LJ's, I took an unusual step. Instead of reading YM on the shelf at Tesco, while SWMBO shopped, I parted with 4 quid to take it home.

My thoughts: Tom Cunliffe can write. The keel article added genuine new info. The anchor ball joke made me laugh. The hurricane boat story was interesting and there was at least one letter that raised my heckles.

Luckily my copy had tip #4 in place. Essential knowledge, that will make me faster and irresistible to women. Thanks YM.

Very good indeed.

Thanks.
 
Mark-1 said:
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Luckily my copy had tip #4 in place. Essential knowledge, that will make me faster and irresistible to women. Thanks YM.

Very good indeed.

Thanks.
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For gods sake, dont tell anyone! If everyone new what it was it wouldnt work anymore!



I think hurricane boy was being a bit conservative with the truth... he said he took down his Jib before the storm and reduced all his windage.... but if you look at the piccies the genoa is clearly still on the forestay... and even the BBQ is still on the back rail... never mind the bimini and spray hood....

Gotta raise the question... if he had REALLY gotten shot of all the windage would the boat have dragged???

Interesting comment about the 2 anchors in series were on the only boat which didnt drag.
 
LC

Lady Campanula said:
Psychophants! ( syc )

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you have a very untrusting and suspicious nature
The cash flow relationship between Keep turning left enterprises mega corp in the form of Dylan Winter has been all one way - around £4.00 or so a month from KTL EMC DW to IPC.

I will confess to having written a couple of awfully good peices for PBO in the past - one was about towing a 22 foot 1.5 tonne eboat to Scotland - behind a 1600CC Ford Sierra company car owned by Farmers Weekly and therefore amazingly by the same people who owned PBO.

The other was about going to the boat show and making sure to remember not to wear socks with holes in them. Rivetting stuff as I remember.

I have not yet been offered a job by Motor Boats Monthly

but I am confidently expecting them to come knocking on my door any day soon

because I think I speak their language





But back to YBW.


YBW writers- right back to the saintly Des and beyond, if there ever was a beyond - have always produced the best yachting journalism anywhere in the UK - and probably the world.


better than PBO, better than Y and Y, Telegraph (when they bothered) and certainly better than anything the BBC has ever done because they seem to think that sailing is about Dame Ellen and a bloke called Ainslie who "goes gold" doing something or other too compicated for people to understand.


Fact.(imho)

(assuming you can have an IMHO fast that is)


Dylan
 
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I have bought Decembers issue for the first time in a while and I agree that things do seem to have improved. I have added it on my letter to father christmas.

I have not finished reading it yet, which is a good sign, usually I don't need to pick it up more than once.

Well done YM, keep it up :)
 
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I wonder if it so good because they throw more resources at the December issue than the average YBW.

It must be a crucial time for them - with subscription renewal time coming up and also the boat show on its way.

Does the December edition have a bigger editorial budget than the others I wonder?

I can see that one heck of a lot of work went into producing some of those features and articles.

Dylan
 
I've had the weekend to reflect and I haven't changed my view. The Musuc Bag made me smile, the guy lifting out from the beach in the inner sound was interesting. I've squinted and studied the hurricane boat to see how much windage there was. (Courtesy flag still up, smallish beer in terms of windage compared to the Sprayhood but why not take it off?) I really liked the guy doing a late season blast with his wood burner equipped MAB. Some very brave black and white views on anchors. All good stuff.

Funny how some money is easier to spend than other. I wouldn't think twice about buying a pint for £3:50, but I spent a good five minutes in Tescos trying to decide whether or not to buy the Mag, and now I'm agonizing over whether or not to buy a thirty quid subscription.

Anyway. Does anyone subscribe to the electronic YM for 29.99? Is it possible to download it locally on a laptop & some format readable on an android phone to be read at leisure even without internet access? Ideally I'd like them just to send me a pdf but I guess they don't do that for good reason.

Limited preview of the mag here for those who are interested:

http://gb.zinio.com/reader.jsp?o=int&pub=137580627&prev=sub&offer=191993050
 
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'Nostalgia's not what it used to be'

Awl rite, awl rite! I’ll bite. But you have to answer some qwessies first….

I’ve a shedload of Tescos ClubCard vouchers here and I’ve decided tonight I am BLURRY NOT going to spend them on my better half after all. Can they be used for YM? Can they be used for the Zinio version of YM? How long does it take to get it set up? If days rather than months, then I’m interested. If months rather than days, it’s like gambling on a Term-Certain Fixed Annuity, and I’ll buy a season’s ticket to some blurry theme park instead.

‘Cos why? ‘Cos I was discussing this evening how/where best to spend about £1000 of TCC Vouchers, and had just thought of sending her on a nice P&O-type luxury cruise, or Airmile’ing her to Venice or Prague or Rome, and then thought to switch off the blurry blaring box showing some poxy wailing costume lawyer drama, and ‘cos I couldn’t hear properly what ‘her indoors’ was saying.

“What did you turn that off, for!” she bellowed. “I was watching that.…” But she wasn’t listening, either to it or to me. Nothing new there…. Grumpy ol’ futtock!

One thing lead to another, as it usually does, so I left her to her poxy screeching TV costume drama, taking the collection of TCC vouchers with me. I’ll be Methusaleh now before I fork out that kind of moolah on a pre-Christmas freebie treat for her – she’s missed out on that one, big time!

And now I’ve got until 5 December to find something that I want, instead…..

Meanwhile, back at the forum, I’m interested - honest Injun - in the now-revived Yachting Monthly of good report. I suppose over the years, the decades even, I’ve spent many hundreds of beer tokens on IPC’s mags – PBO, YM, YW, and the superlative Classic Boat ( Er, is that still an IPC title? Honest? ) I’ve collected them now and then, and then returned them to a grateful Marketing Manager, tidily wrapped, packaged and bound, at the SBS so he can continue a time-honoured tradition. He now has, I understand from a mischievous retired Consultant Editor, the largest collection of mmpb cocked-spine Back Issues in the Western world.

And speaking of tradition, the decades of excellence in yottie journalism stretch back, oh, more than 100 years to May 1906. I find myself wondering if Editor Paul G, ‘Felicity’, DD, Snoekie and the rest of the gang got a telegram from The Queen on the Big Day. I wonder if the subbies got an extra 10 minutes’ smokebreak for lunch and the layout artistes ( not the ‘pith artistes’ – they’re elsewhere in IPC Towers ) an extra sixpence in their brown paypackets.

The tradition of fearless indignant and well-selling journalism, as staunchly established and defended to the last drop of green ink by the likes of journo giants such as ‘Dear Des’ Sleightholme, MG, Heckstall-Smith, JJ and Geoff, and the young and lissom SN..... Memories of Beavis, Desoutter and Taylor. The inimitable Paytone. The Venerable Ian Nicolson, who’s been around longer than the Gutenburg Bible, it seems, and whose clever ‘how to do it’ sketches launched a thousand bodged refits.

‘Publish and be dammed’ ( sic ) they cried into their port and lemon. So they did, and so they were. Weasel corporate lawyers, junk bond sales managers, starchy HM Coastguard spokespeeps, and slippery civil servants of the DfT kind conspired with button-collared marketing wonks from Wisconsin and Wichitaw to dumb down the brave voices of Brit boating. Packing away their subbie red pencils and their green eyeshades, one by one they crept away to grow roses and ruminate on their past triumphs of fearless reportage. No more would ever be heard of the Ol’ Wonky Windsail, the Great RCD StitchUp, the Maritime Safety Information Quango, or the Select Committee’s ‘Report on the Sudden Decline of Hippocampii in Inshore Waters’.

What are we left with, we few remaining subscribers? What’s on offer in this, the latest and greatest December Edition ( signed off for publication in April ). Now, let me see….

“Why your best sail of the season could be your last”

“101 things every yachtsman should know ( ‘cos we’ve repeated this article 17 times since this decade began )

“Idiot’s Guide to Tom Cunliffe’s Jargon – Millenium Edition”

“Readers Wives” ( or is that PBO? )

“How to Cope With Falling Over”

“The Unfriendliest Spanish Port To Reach From the UK”

“Lymington Charges For Beginners – The Scams Explained”

Oh, I can’t wait any longer. I want two subscriptions – one digital and one analogue, so I can check out the deliberate mistakes and read the old retreaded stories twice, or thrice…. or maybe just bathe in the nostalgia of a long-lost world before DGPS, swipe cards on marina gates, season tickets for ‘TowYouHome Lifeboats’, built-in flat screen offshore TV, his ‘n hers bathrooms below, and the advent of the ‘starter boat’ that’s way too big for a seasoned Yotmeister and play-piece to berth on their own. Like the edition below.....

Bring it on, Paul and Richard. Let me join in the fun….and do you take TCC Vouchers?


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top skills there LC

I knew it would be worth waiting for

jolly good read

and how much do you have to spend to get those vouchers

nora man... I hope some of that has been spent on Scotch

I think they should just reprint the old mags

YBW of a hundred years ago would be pretty good stuff

actually thats what they shuold do with the electronic version

when you buy a subscription for 2011

you also get complete sets of 1911 1931 1951 1971 and 1991

next year with the 2012 electronic subscription you also get

1912 1932 1952 and 1992

all it would take would be a day for some-one to scan the old ones in and check that the subjects are searchable.

we have a plan for turning the fortunes of YBW electronic verion around.

the adverts would be wonderful to read

come on YBW do it

Dylan
 
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Lady Campanula said:
“Why your best sail of the season could be your last”
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Don't let the title of that article put you off. IMHO it's actually a fairly well written article about a pleasant cruise. I enjoyed it.

PS: Plenty of South Coast Sailing Clubs that charge £1:70 a pint or thereabouts.
 
dylanwinter said:
when you buy a subscription for 2011
you also get complete sets of 1911 1931 1951 1971 and 1991
next year with the 2012 electronic subscription you also get
1912 1932 1952 and 1992
all it would take would be a day for some-one to scan the old ones in and check that the subjects are searchable.
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Reading old issues might be really interesting. Do we have rose tinted glasses? When I read "Magic of the Swatchways" I assume that every word Maurice Griffiths ever wrote was of a similar standard. I wonder if the reality is that in many day to day issues he filled the space with 101 point tips lists as well? Naturally they're forgotten and only the good stuff endures. Much like Monty Python which, from what I've seen, contained at least 40pc of utter dross but the 60pc of good stuff made it well worth it.

Perhaps in 20 years time we'll be looking at the best half dozen YM articles from 2010 and talking about it as a golden era of Sailing Journalism.
 
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