In which countries do people read this?

[waterboy]

I am not awaare of any other yachting forums operating overseas, but immagine there are. Being UK based, it interests me to see where other forum readers come from (ouside the UK) and if they know of any such forums with their web addresses.

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[dickh]

There is a US one - <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.boatered.com>http://www.boatered.com</A>

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[Hurleyburly]

I'm in Hong Kong.

Don't know of any forums over here, but there's not many yachts either ;-)

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[mikewilkes]

If you go to the Liveaboard forum then you will find most of us live and or work abroad, but still keep in contact with the poor souls that have to suffer Charlie Brown and Lionel Blair.

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[Bismark]

I am vrom Prussia which is zwe vaterland vich is vie I need ze vat

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[Evadne]

Country?

Judging from some posts we may have forum members who don't live on the same planet as the rest of us.


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[bajo]

I am in [beautiful] Barbados, and I check it everyday, an I am a Bajan

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[Miquel_Culzean]

I am from Belgium. Not aware of any forum here, but there are quite a lot in the US.

Fair winds,

Miquel
Culzean

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[vyv_cox]

Holland

There are Dutch language forums but my command of the language is insufficient to participate.

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[Roberto]

Latin countries ?

France

http://www.hisse-et-oh.com/forum/index.php

Spain

http://www.navegar.com/foro/es/default.asp

Italy

http://forum.onecenter.com/barcaavela/

Portugal

http://www.edinfor.pt/anc/anc-forum.html

and the bilingual Quebec-Canadian at www.voile.org

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[kingfisher]

BELGIUM, Gent.NM

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[HeadMistress]

US forums

There are several good ones based in the US. Boatered.com is primarily powerboats and moderated with a VERY heavy hand--to the extent that posts asking about other sites are deleted. I hosted a forum on it for three years...when increased off-line responsibilities mandated that I cut back on some of my hosting duties, I'd intended to continue to participate as just another member, but the site owner expressed his gratitude for the 3 years I'd put into it by locking me out of the site altogether, claiming that my decision to give up hosting duties must mean that I have negative feelings about the site. Join at your own risk.

The Bayliner Owners Club (BOC) is at http://pub12.ezboard.com/bbocweb and does attract members from all over the world.

Cruising World magazine maintains one of the best sites for blue water sailors and wannabe's. It's at http://www.cruisingworld.com/forums/genlmesg/

Sailboatowners.com maintains several brand-specific forums for owners of Hunter, Beneteau, Catalina, Oday, MacGregor, and a few more. Several forums, including my own "head mistress" forum, are shared across all the sites, while those related to brand-specific issues only show up in that one. You can read all the shared forums at http://www.sailboatowners.com and find your way to each of the brand specific sites from there.

Sailnet. com (http://www.sailnet.com) maintains a discussion board and also a zillion brand-specific email lists.

A google search should turn up quite a few more, but those are the major US sites.

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[gary_yank]

Two more US sites are
www.trailersailor.com and www.sailnet.com

The first was started for smaller sized sailboats and has some brand related forums on the site. It is rather like the PBO site with a do it yourself bend, and some of the posters are a good deal bent.

The second has several Q&A boards.

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[HeadMistress]

FYI, trailersailer.com is now part of the sailboatowners.com group...as of 2-3 months ago.

Several of boating magazines in the US have discussion forums--Boating (for the testosterone-overloaded powerboat crowd)....just to name a few. And while mostly populated by Americans and Canadians, most of the boards do have participants from all over the world.

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[BrianJ]

Re:God\'s own Country

OZ
BrianJ

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[MainlySteam]

Next Door to God\'s own Country

New Zealand.

Apart from if one has an interest in a particular boat owners' site eg Beneteau, the ypw.com forums are the only ones worth paying regular attention to (by far), in my opinion.

John

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[salvex]

Bahamas now - Barbados prior to Jan 2003

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[Swampyhotdog]

On an oilrig in Brazil

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[alanporter]

Pacific coast of Canada. Don't know of any Canadian forum.

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[oldsaltoz]

Australia, East Coast.......

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