Yachting Monthly

[snooks]

what is needed is Bloody Yachtsmen writing copy

Paul Gelder is a boat owner, Dick Durham is a boat owner, Kieran Flatt is a boat owner, I'm a boat owner. Chris Beeson our technical Editor doesn't own a boat but has done transatlantics, round Britian and Ireland, numerous Fastnets and off shore races charters etc

So we are yachtsmen

 

[Tidewaiter2]

Hmmmm, any excuse to get out of the Office

Paul Gelder is a boat owner, Dick Durham is a boat owner, Kieran Flatt is a boat owner, I'm a boat owner. Chris Beeson our technical Editor doesn't own a boat but has done transatlantics, round Britian and Ireland, numerous Fastnets and off shore races charters etc

So we are yachtsmen

Ah, all yottin journos, so the only rich one is Chris, cos 'e aint got a 'luxury yacht'(vide Telegraph, Express, Sun etc)

 

[kyleview]

I have subscribed to YM for 20+ years and find it very good. Also I am a keen cruising person - Solent to Largs, Round Ireland, to Barra, also Skye over last four years. Most of the posts do not resonate at all with me - I look forward to each issue dropping through my letter box every month (now 4 weeks) and reading - with most articles being as good as they have ever been.

Looks like most of the posters are suffering from old age and what they think life used to be like - that said I am only 67, but maybe my marbles are still with me.

 

[NealB]

I have subscribed to YM for 20+ years and find it very good. Also I am a keen cruising person - Solent to Largs, Round Ireland, to Barra, also Skye over last four years. Most of the posts do not resonate at all with me - I look forward to each issue dropping through my letter box every month (now 4 weeks) and reading - with most articles being as good as they have ever been.

Looks like most of the posters are suffering from old age and what they think life used to be like - that said I am only 67, but maybe my marbles are still with me.

Congratulations on your superb powers of logical deduction!

"They don't like a magazine that I do, therefore they have lost their marbles".

Harrumph!!!

(from a mere whippersnapper of 56!)

 

[Highland Bear]

I thoroughly enjoy YM and have learnt a lot from it. I look forward to its arrival on the door mat and do agree that the past few issues have been very good (Crash test boat etc)

 

[snooks]

I have accepted the sometimes slightly useless comparative tests - plotters not tested in sunlight being one that irritated me particularly, as I am planning to replace a (not cheap) helm-position plotter that works beautifully but is almost totally invisible in sunlight.

Just to come back to this. I thought it was a bit strange when I read it, but I was more confused about being accused of being "average"

Anyhoo, Jan 2012 issue, page 79, bottom right of page:

"How we tested them
The fundamental requirement of a plotter is that you have to be able to see what is on the screen, so our first tests concentrated on the size and resolution of the screens, and their visibility in bright sunshine, near-darkness, and through sunglasses"

That's the problem with words, one has to take time has to read them, pictures see, that's the future

 

[dylanwinter]

very good and true

Just to come back to this. I thought it was a bit strange when I read it, but I was more confused about being accused of being "average"

Anyhoo, Jan 2012 issue, page 79, bottom right of page:

"How we tested them
The fundamental requirement of a plotter is that you have to be able to see what is on the screen, so our first tests concentrated on the size and resolution of the screens, and their visibility in bright sunshine, near-darkness, and through sunglasses"

That's the problem with words, one has to take time has to read them, pictures see, that's the future

You sailing hacks have my sympathy - the way you are treated on here must make you very sad.


Perception is everything - and changing it is almost impossible. Facts are not enough for some poeple.

It is amazing how some sailors believe that I am a cantankorous mobo hating ugly old recidivist

they base their opinions on several things

sometimes it is what I have written and said - as though I always say what I believe

at other times their opnions are based upons things I have never written or said



In reality I am an easy going, free thinking, highly motivated digital entrepenuer, cutting the mustard in the new media frontier.

http://youtu.be/reE25cjP5yQ

 

[jwilson]

Just to come back to this. I thought it was a bit strange when I read it, but I was more confused about being accused of being "average"

Anyhoo, Jan 2012 issue, page 79, bottom right of page:

"How we tested them
The fundamental requirement of a plotter is that you have to be able to see what is on the screen, so our first tests concentrated on the size and resolution of the screens, and their visibility in bright sunshine, near-darkness, and through sunglasses"

That's the problem with words, one has to take time has to read them, pictures see, that's the future

Yes, and then the text completely failed to tell us how clear each individual plotter display was in bright sunlight - and the summary table gave a Lowrance the lowest score. Now I have used one Garmin (my invisible-in-bright-sun 3005C), three Raymarines (C70, C80 and C120 all very poor in direct sun), and one cheap Lowrance 3500, and the cheap Lowrance was the best in bright light.

I am talking plotter at the wheel, not under a sprayhood, and using a paper chart only to pre-plan. Once on the move, often actually or effectively singlehanded, I want to be able to use the plotter as my primary tool. I can go back to leadline and compass only, been there done that, but this is 2012.

And sorry to insult your photos - some of them are actually very good, though ruined by lots of text on top. I still feel though that the old textured-front magazine covers were on the whole better - whilst some (excluding the ones you put up as samples) were really fabulous. In one of my lives I was a professional film cameraman, and amateur photographer, and one of my ambitions was to get a photo onto the YM cover. Never did, though YM did publish an article. Unfortunately I don't have an archive of YM covers to look at.