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Originally Posted by Chuck Baier  I guess I have been reading boating magazines since the bug bit me as a child. So perhaps this is part and partial for my observations. But over the years I have seen not much more than rehashing of the same old stuff over and over by the same and sometimes different authors. There seems to be no fresh information other than the latest in technology and no new angles to the same repetitious, reworked stories over and over and over again. So my question to our members is this. What do you find missing? What would you want more of? What are the articles and information that draws you to one publication over another? If those publications could provide you with just one article per month, what would you like to find in that article? |
That sounds quite familiar!
OK, one article:-
I love reading about folk who have "normal" boats with a bit of character in my part of the world, have owned them for a few years, put some TLC and some love into her, made a few practical mods (even if I think to myself "that is the
first thing I would remove if I bought your boat - simply for aesthetic reasons!"), talks about where he cruises and how / who with, maybe recalls the odd incident......but nothing that on it's own would sell a Book........just the sort of stuff that when I read I can think to myself "I could do that" or "that is pretty much what I am doing" plus "nice boat".
One of the UK mags used to run a series "One Man and his Boat"......probably stopped cos' it was hard to wrap adverts around
Alternatively any article with photos of semi naked bimbos works for me
