other sailing forums?

[Guest]

Anybody know of any other uk sailing forums? The PBO/YM ones are heavily controlled, and as a result lack interest and vitality.

Or is it just that we yotties are mainly middle aged middle class conservatives - with a small c. ?

 

[chuns]

You could try...

... http://www.boatsyachtsmarinas.com/c....cgi?file=Forum&report=TopicIndex#Category000

It's a bit quiet at the moment, but it can (and frequently does) get quite lively. It is a different character from here. Pitch in and see what you get.

 

[snowleopard]

a bit surreal

nm

 

[hlb]

You could always try the Panto forum.

<font color=blue>Haydn

 

[Grehan]

Or the Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the . . Forum

 

[Grehan]

Or the Sixth Forum (fags behind the bike sheds is compulsory)

 

[kimhollamby]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'heavily controlled' but would be grateful if you would cite examples of things that you see as being unhelpful for our consideration.

Almost all posts made here are left well alone, I can at least assure you of that...

kim_hollamby@ipcmedia.com

 

[petery]

If I want bar-room humour or I want to be provacative about politics, I go to the bar of my sailing club - if I want advice on a subject that my friends can't help me with - or want to learn from others' experience of sailing, I come here.

I've got no complaints.

 

[MartinGPerry]

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[BrianJ]

When you find them Howard . stay there, as most of us are happy with what we have on this BB.
BrianJ

 

[mikewilkes]

How much more open do you want?
At the moment on one of the others "the managment" are being slagged for PBO being crap. There is no restriction, as far as I can see, just the occaisional post by the man in red to try to find out what the problem is.
Dont know about the stink boat forum cos I have never bothered to read it, but the others can be quite interesting and at times informative.
Its really down to what do you want to see, decide, and then put a post on whichever forum takes your fancy.
Mike

 

[rickpayne]

Hear! Hear! And take with you all the other boring old members of the 'Council of the Elders' who know everything about everything.

Well said Kim. Well said Bryan.

 

[FlyingSpud]

Yea Gods, don’t they give you a holiday Kim? A posting on the 25th December?

 

[stevebirch2002]

There is a very active Albin Vega chat group on Yahoo and on the Albin Vega website:

www.albinvega.co.uk

I think the forum is doing a great job and the only people to fear the censure of Kim is people who I consider should be on a diffent type of chatline. My own personal opinions.......

Albin Vega "Southern Comfort" V1703

 

[LadyInBed]

Re: \'heavily controlled\'

You asked me to pull me picture - That was a bit heavy, in my wee umble opinion of course.

 

[rickpayne]

Re: \'heavily controlled\'

.... but in the opinion of (probably) many other people - who do more reading of posts than making them - Kim did exactly the right thing. I'll second the posting of Steve above.

 

[webcraft]

There are plenty of other sailing fora, but they are not very well patronised because this one is just so damn good.

Technically it's fast and stable. Politically, the moderation is incredibly light-handed for a board owned and paid for by a huge media conglomerate like IPC.

If you really feel it's all too much then there's BYM or BM. BYM has a certain following because there's a lot of old cronies who like to talk nonsense to each other - but it owes its existence historically,as I understand it, to a glitch with this board. BM's forum does not see a lot of traffic - and I suspect is unlikely to become a serious contender so long as Kim & Co keep such a steady hand on the helm of this one.

Honestly, there's nothing I'd like better than to jump on the 'Big Brother capitalist IPC fascists' bandwagon and have a good rant, but I just can't because it would seem that there are some good guys in among the IPC machinery.

[Although I did think asking Nigel to remove his pic was a bit heavy handed (IMHO of course)]

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[kimhollamby]

Re: \'heavily controlled\'

Yup, I did, but the word was 'ask' (when the option was to admin it out myself) and you did what was requested because I explained I'd had a few moans about it. That was moderate moderation in my book.../forums/images/icons/smile.gif

kim_hollamby@ipcmedia.com

 

[LadyInBed]

Re: \'heavily controlled\'

Never let it be said that I'm not compliant

 

[chippie]

A Google search for wooden boat magazine will lead you to their fora which are fairly extensive .