Remember Motor Boats Monthly?

dpb said:
I to have all copies from the early ninties to the last one. They are a great source of info, especially reviews of then new boats that I might be buying second hand now.
The only problem is finding them. Some issues had indexes but don't know which ones. It would be great to have an index of boat reports and destinations if nothing else.
I wonder if anyone has done this?
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There used to be an index on here, but IPC/Time or whoever they are, decided to get rid of it. I understand it was time consuming updating it, but at least leave it available for all the issues up to the point of stopping it. That would have covered all MBMs ever.
 
Piers said:
Can you remember the radio call? 'Play d'eau, when do I ask for help?' 'What's wrong,' I replied. 'Well, I'm sitting in the cockpit and the water's already up to my knees and it's still coming in...'
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certianly do! Tom was asleep downstairs at the time.....came flying up when I hammered down on the Broom.

”What the bloody hell!” he shouted ?

Still not sure how we got that boat back still floating.....I know I bailed solidly for 3 hours with a bucket!
 
CLB said:
There used to be an index on here, but IPC/Time or whoever they are, decided to get rid of it. I understand it was time consuming updating it, but at least leave it available for all the issues up to the point of stopping it. That would have covered all MBMs ever.
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Yes its extremely frustrating now. When Time/IPC used to sell test reprints they had an online index for ordering them. Now thats gone, if you want to find a test reprint, it means going through every issue of both MBM and MBY around about the time that model was launched and often you dont even know whether that particular model was tested

The catalogue of tests must be somewhere in the IPC/Time data bank so it wouldnt take much to publish it as a courtesy to long time subscribers
 
FARSCO said:
certianly do! Tom was asleep downstairs at the time.....came flying up when I hammered down on the Broom.

”What the bloody hell!” he shouted ?

Still not sure how we got that boat back still floating.....I know I bailed solidly for 3 hours with a bucket!
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The insurer faffed about and didn't pay the full value. In their own words, 'it would been better to have let the boat sink.' The boat was in St Vaast for months being repaired.

What was the name of the owner? He was an ex-air traffic controller, partially disabled, and loved smoking those huge cigars which he wasn't allowed to smoke at home!

On a different trip he had a bird strike coming around the Casquets en route Soton. He was doing some 45kts when a gull took off in front of him, didn't make it and splattered itself across his windscreen. 'The only time an air traffic controller had a bird strike!'
 
Roger I think.

great name for an air traffic controller.

if I’d have known that at the time....it would have saved a lot of effort. If I recall.....the scuppers where too low and water came in as it was rough and he was semi displacement speeds.

the scanner rib popped a tube that day too IIRC.....or poaty popped it ? Aweful rib
 
We mustn't forget the impact Kim Hollamby had. As I recall when he first started at MBM he was the coordinator of the Cruises working his way up to be the editor of the magazine for 10 years or so. A delightful chap who was genetically engineered to fit in engine rooms :)
 
FARSCO said:
Roger I think.

great name for an air traffic controller.

if I’d have known that at the time....it would have saved a lot of effort. If I recall.....the scuppers where too low and water came in as it was rough and he was semi displacement speeds.

the scanner rib popped a tube that day too IIRC.....or poaty popped it ? Aweful rib
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Yes Roger. A lovely man and a great character. Sadly passed away a few years ago. Claire and I attended his memorial service.

Kim and Tom are both doing well. Tend to bump into them at boat shows. I am forever in Kim’s debt for employing me at MBM, although I suspect he realised his mistake quite quickly as he moved on within a week of me starting ;-)

I learned so much from working with both on cruises that I finally found myself, in the latter years of the cruising club, filling their mighty shoes. We have even continued the tradition, albeit under a different title, since.

Great times, fond memories and still spoken about by participants when I bump into them at shows etc. I’m sure Tom, Kim and Paul Berger could write a very interesting book on the subject.
 
I remember the great Ensign Ransom during a West Country Cruise

cant recall the name of the boat (Neale will know....the party boat ?)

We nicked it and sent pictures of it to them at various locations during the cruise then auctioned it back to them (proceeds to charity of course) at the last night dinner!

i have to thank Neale for asking me back more than once!
 
PilotWolf said:
Not personally.

I like to have something to pick up and thumb though. Especially on a trip.

W.
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Yes you could take one paper issue with you to read on a trip. Or, for roughly the same weight and size, you could take a few years worth of digital issues on your iPad :)
 
CLB said:
Yes you could take one paper issue with you to read on a trip. Or, for roughly the same weight and size, you could take a few years worth of digital issues on your iPad :)
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But just not the same!

Plus the pier supply issues...

Some things just are better old fashioned ways :)

W.
 
PCUK said:
Does anyone really prefer digital to paper? I think publishers have jumped the gun and will have to reintroduce paper copies in the not too distant future.
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I subscribe to Readly at £7.99 per month. There's thousands of publications on there including MBY and PBO but also plenty for my other hobbies. Loads of classic car titles, motorcycling as well as photography, scale modelling etc etc. You name it, it's probably there. I used to subscribe to Classic Car Weekly but that's over £2 a week. You don't have to read it online, you can download magazines to read offline which means I got plenty to read when I'm aware.
 
neale said:
Yes Roger. A lovely man and a great character. Sadly passed away a few years ago. Claire and I attended his memorial service.

Kim and Tom are both doing well. Tend to bump into them at boat shows. I am forever in Kim’s debt for employing me at MBM, although I suspect he realised his mistake quite quickly as he moved on within a week of me starting ;-)

I learned so much from working with both on cruises that I finally found myself, in the latter years of the cruising club, filling their mighty shoes. We have even continued the tradition, albeit under a different title, since.

Great times, fond memories and still spoken about by participants when I bump into them at shows etc. I’m sure Tom, Kim and Paul Berger could write a very interesting book on the subject.
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also a mention for jake and mel
 
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