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23-10-2010, 13:17
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Cruising the southern coast of Portugal and Spain
Boat: Leopard 40
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Latitudes and Attitudes
Does anyone have an opinion on Latitudes and Attitudes magizine or it's sister publication on living aboard?
Maje
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23-10-2010, 13:56
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Brisbane Australia
Boat: Multihulls - cats and Tris
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Yeah - I like reading Latts and Atts, dont agree with every story or article of course - but I enjoy none the less
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23-10-2010, 14:16
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Tavernier, Fl
Boat: Outremer 50
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It was a great magazine (my favorite) but now not much content. Just a lot of advertising.
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23-10-2010, 15:38
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Wherever the boat is!
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Maje, We have written for both. Any magazine today needs as much advertising as they can get to continue publication. Advertising is what keeps all of them afloat, Lats and Atts, Cruising World, you name it. Living Aboard has some interesting articles written by...well, live-aboards. If you are just starting out, you might find some interesting stuff. If you have been cruising and living aboard for some time, it might not be so interesting. And what keeps my interest might not keep yours. I would suggest picking up a few copies of each as opposed to just one and read them and make that decision for yourself. Chuck
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23-10-2010, 16:01
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Boat: CT54
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We use to love Latitudes and Attitudes but stopped purchasing it when the advertising got too much and the price got up to somewhere around $8.00 a copy (WM price).
Still have a collection of some of the old issues that we can't bring ourselves to get rid of.
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24-10-2010, 12:35
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Mexico (currently)
Boat: Panda 40 - S/V Cambria
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For a slightly different approach - and a much better price! - try Latitude 38:
Latitude 38 - The West's Leading Sailing and Marine Magazine
Comes out monthly, and the download is free.
Same caveat as with Latitudes and Attitudes - the more you know, the less interesting the magazine becomes...
Michael
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24-10-2010, 13:16
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Nyack, NY
Boat: Westsail 32
Posts: 1,694
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Liked it especially well when they put a Westsail 32 on the cover last fall.
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24-10-2010, 13:31
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Vancouver, Wash.
Boat: no longer on my Cabo Rico 38 Sanderling
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Quote:
Originally Posted by svcambria
For a slightly different approach - and a much better price! - try Latitude 38:
Latitude 38 - The West's Leading Sailing and Marine Magazine
Comes out monthly, and the download is free.
Same caveat as with Latitudes and Attitudes - the more you know, the less interesting the magazine becomes...
Michael |
Go to any advertiser listed in the magazine including any West Marine store and pick up a free copy every month, or pay an annual mailing fee of $30 for home delivery.
I've been doing it since 1983.
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24-10-2010, 13:38
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Puget Sound
Boat: Irwin 41 CC Ketch
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I use to watch the archived L&A shows on the internet and really liked them allot....seems they pulled it...the mag is over priced for the content.
So I decided to save for my own Shannon instead of helping Bob pay for his.
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24-10-2010, 14:00
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Smithfield Va.
Boat: '72 Tanzer 28 "Her Idea"
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like the mag, but they pissed me off with the new issue...interview with jessica watson isn't an interview...stoopid. and yes..overpriced.
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25-10-2010, 08:23
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Live Iowa - Sail mostly Bahamas
Boat: Beneteau 32.5
Posts: 2,307
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What I've liked about it compared to many of the others is that it seems to be a bit more grouded in how most people really cruise.
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25-10-2010, 08:45
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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i haven't read it for years, but when it first came out I found the literary level of the writing to be so poor that I found it painful to read.
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25-10-2010, 08:49
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Homer, AK is my home port
Boat: Skookum 53'
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It's a fun magazine.
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25-10-2010, 09:07
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Cruising the southern coast of Portugal and Spain
Boat: Leopard 40
Posts: 761
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Thank you to everyone. It has given me alot to think about. I wonder if they would send me a sample copy.
Maje
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25-10-2010, 09:10
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Eastern Tennessee
Boat: Research vessel for a university, retired now.
Posts: 10,406
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I prefer Latitude 38 over anything else. The publishers and writers are not full of themselves, like the glossy magazines.
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Life begins where land ends.
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