Which magazine shall I stop?

[knewboater]

Have had PBO/ YM/ and Sailing Today delivered each month for yonks and because some articles are duplicated thought I would stop having one or more, I have a preference(keep YM and ST) would be pleased to hear from other readers what they take.If you don`t think this is anappropriate subject then please pass on.

 

[johnalison]

Subscribe to YM & try to look invisible in Smiths while reading the others.

 

[shmoo]

I rather got the impression that once you had seen any one of them for a year or two it began to get repetative with such as "is you boat ready for winter/summer/bad weather" and "Where the locals go in [fill in any cruising ground]". They also seem very geared to making you want new things you don't need. Sticking my neck out here: no radio/anchor/binos are/is actually bad nowdays so pieces along the lines of "Have you bought a new radio/anchor/binos yet this season" are not that interesting.

Some years back I decided to give them all up, use the money I saved to buy charts and the odd pilot book and go sailing.

 

[Slow_boat]

Stop 'Penthouse'. It's pretty much the same as 'Playboy' anyway. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[jerryat]

>>Some years back I decided to give them all up, use the money I saved to buy charts and the odd pilot book and go sailing. <<

Exactly my decision a few years ago after subscribing to three mags for over twenty years. You can't blame the mags for 'annual repetition' as there are always new peeps joining the sailing/MoBoing fraternity, but I guess one can only take the same old things a few times before it gets a bore.

 

[Poignard]

Like Shmoo I began to find them a bit boring, and superfluous. I can get excellent accounts of cruises from the Royal Naval Sailing Asociation Journal and the Twister Class Association Magazine, and technical information from the latter. Any advice I need is usually obtainable from this forum [plus occassional advice I can do without!].

So I stopped buying magazines about 2 years ago and haven't missed them. If I really need to see a particular issue I can always read it at the National Maritime Museum library.

 

[Slow_boat]

But it is nice to get a monthly boaty 'fix' through the letter box in the winter months.

 

[ostra4]

i stopped buying them as well simply because I dont like throwing them away and it was getting silly .I did manage to get rid of some to friends and now just re-cycle them sometimes when I have forgotton whats in them .I agree with above that new gear is tempting but I dont really need it .

 

[SQUIRRELS]

Used to take Yachting World and Yachting Monthly, sometimes buying PBO, Sailing Today and on the odd Yachting Life. Books shelves were groaning.

So now just subscribe to Yachting Monthly, which for me has the most interest and strikes a happy medium between the DIY of PBO and the mega yachting in YW.

 

[billmacfarlane]

Funnily enough, I'm in the exact same situatuin. I decided to give up ST last month as it was getting a bit like a Peter Poland monologue.

 

[Koeketiene]

Funny that - ditched YM because it turned into the gospel according to Tom Cunliffe.
Ditched PBO coz of YM duplication.

Buy Sailing Today depending on content.

Subscribe (electronic copy - 26$ - bargain) to Cruising World.

 

[Shearwater]

And with these forums we do not have to wait for someone to write an article to show us how to do something or how to save a few squid - we simply ask and like-minded folk help out with an answer, powerful or what?

 

[Sixpence]

Very true actually , one of the July issues has an article that's about the Pride of Bilbao incident and they reported that the incident had been discussed at length , and I do believe they meant on here , so the magazines get a lot of input from these forums

 

[Rosa]

I subscribe to 3- and 2 of these for 20+ years. I want to stop. My name is Rosa and I am a sailing magazine addict. Should I go cold turkey or wean myself off gradually? Which should I give up first? and for how long before I try the second and third?
Are there any support groups out there? Like S.M.A. (sailing Mags Addicts)

 

[B175Chris]

I signed up to SMA and all I got was this lousy packet of follow-up milk....

 

[Sixpence]

Is there any particular time that you read them ? , typically for me was dump time /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif so I bought a wireless laptop /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[CalmSkipper]

Too much information Trevera!!!

I bought them all every month for about four months starting last August when I decided I was going to get a boat. Given I knew absolutley nothing about boats or cruising (other than knowing it was something I really wanted to do) the combination of the mags and information from this forum where invaluable. However it didn't take long until I started to notice topics covered in one mag covered in another mag the following months etc. I'm pleased to say I now have a boat so I spend as much time as possible out on the water.

Now I just buy mags 'tactically' when they cover something I'm particularly interested in. Not a foolproof plan though as I want to cruise the channel Islands in a year or so -PBO did a peice on a StPeter's Port/St Helier crossing but i saw from the commentary I'd missed the first of the channel island passage plans in the previous month's issue.....so if anyone is throwing out June's PBO I'll happily swap a different back issue you may have missed - Just post a message

 

[Sixpence]

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Too much information Trevera!!!

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Nothing new there /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif as far as the magazines go , take out the pages that interest and educate , file them and dump the rest . My collection has been reduced to a useful group of files where anything that might help is ready to grab , just got to organise it now
By the way , the name is Dave , pleasure to meet you

 

[suse]

I bought them for years, and kept them, then I tried to give them away, but no one in Cambridgeshire on Sea wanted them, so I tore out the useful articles, never read them, and threw them all away! Now I never buy any - books, instead. And here, when necessary.

Chris - you are hilarious!!!

S x

 

[Sixpence]

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Chris - you are hilarious!!!S x

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Susy , don't encourage him /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif