MURDER OF A SAILING MAGAZINE: LA (la revedere) BARCA VECHE și alte știri importante!

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1. Couldn't have expressed it better! Bigger and faster is not why I got into sailing! Good Old Boats were the only opportunity I had to get into boating. Modern sailing has reverted back to the boating world before fiberglass hulls came along, a pastime for the wealthy. Increased boating costs, maintenance and moorage has many GOB owners hanging on by their fingernails. I refuse to give up. I wrote the occasional story for Good Old Boat, really enjoyed writing them, and then GOB allowed me to distribute a box full of editions throughout the Pacific Northwest (or Canadian Southwest, really!) during my sailing summer. What a great way to meet like-minded sailors! I will miss that this coming summer. I now have sailing stories and boat reviews with no outlet. GOB was really the only magazine that focused on the type of boat that we sail. p.s., I don't know what algorithm Google has going that would put your video into my viewing file, but they got that right! Bert Vermeer

2. Agreed. And another casualty was Small Craft Advisor out of Washington. They advocated small boats, instead of big ones, same principle. They are currently doing some articles on substack, but it's not the same at all.

3. I’m sad to hear “Good old boats” is over . I was a subscriber for years, maybe a decade. It was a great magazine and helped to bring to life a dream of sailing . Thanks Good Old Boats you’ll be missed by this old codger. Cheers 🥃

4. Sad. So sad.

5. Right on! So well said.

6. Love your passion. When i bought my seafarer 26, good old boats did a video on her and I was sold. I'm launching her in the spring after purchasing her a year ago. The thing is almost as much as I'm looking forward to sailing her, I'm looking forward to swapping stories with like minded people as yourself. Good stuff, keep up the good work .

7. I feel your pain man. But times are changing. Just remember, you can't change the wind, but you can adjust your sails. We'll all have to at some point.

8. Agreed on all points… fortunately the older boats we love were laid up thick and built for comfort and should be around for us to steward and enjoy for many years to come

9. This is sad indeed, 100% with you on newer boats , period! Owning a S/V custom built in 1971, Bradenton Florida., we also with the boat have the album of pictures of our boat being built! So excited you are having Maddie & Herbee on your video channel. They are fantastic couple, having met them, we have parrots to add to our sailing adventures. Love your videos, I will be watching , and envy you get to see personally these beautiful quality S/V’s. 👍⚓️⛵️😎

10. In most respects, I am sorry to see the demise of GOB. In late December 2023, GOB sent me a notice of renewal so I responded by subscribing to two more years. They must of had an idea that they were closing the doors by then… I'll miss Good Old Boat for the same reasons you expressed so well, but at the same time, I feel somewhat ripped off.

11. Yeah never fun to watch the end for something you have passion for sad. I’m trying to support Practical Sailor right now Tim from Lady K. The biggest thing I hate about sailing is rich people. Blue collar guy but I love sailing too…

12. Your observation is so correct. As we see this play and plug use it trash it with everything. This is the very reason is why I purchased a vessel made in 1968 . I was lucky seeing I layed up fiberglass boats in the late 60'S and early 70'S . Time went into the design to make sure they were sea worthy and would stand the course of storms .
    Point at hand ,when PSC came out with their 25 ft Dbl ender as their first vessel you could sail it anywhere in the world , she wasn't fast little low down below but she took care if you . And because of this PSC has some of the best blue water vessels and beautiful lines . We can't say the same for production vessels of today . Sad state of affairs but the up side is we get to sail and tell of another day with our work horse on the water. Old school is still the best school. Keep doing what your doing . Yes I had a PSC 25 and now a Herschoff won't have it any other way.
    Angus
    SV Violet Walters.

13. I generally agree with your sentiments, but let me offer my perspective, for whatever it might be worth. Im 35 and didn't grow up around sailors or boats. I had no interest in boats because all I ever saw of them were overpriced, modern, soulless, plastic vessels, captained, and crewed by elitist d bags. It wasn't until the YouTube algorithm randomly suggested a wooden boat building video a couple years ago that any of this clicked for me. In other words, had it not been for the internet, I would not be in this space, and my boat would have been broken up for scrap metal by now (thats what the vaunted surveyors all recommended). By the way, I had not heard of "Good Old Boat" magazine before watching this video. Im all for traditionalism in most things. After all, just because something is the newfangled hotness doesn't mean it's necessarily superior to what came before. However, when it comes to the free distribution and dissemination of information, I firmly believe that the internet is a far more efficient mechanism than traditional print media.

14. YT Channel Lady K Sailing just became editor of Practical Sailor, which appears to be all remote work at home, sounded like they are struggling economically because they recruited him from YT. You may consider covering the "almost free" sailboat market of Ebay donations which occasionally has decent old boats, such as right now, 2 Alberg 35 footers with working diesel engines, one in greater San Diego the other in Virginia. Prices are so cheap on these boats a scrapper can make $, which I hate to see. I visited Camden ME in the summer of '72 as a Tabor Academy Sea Ranger on the Tabor Boy – after supper we would tour folk's yachts and the experience was heavenly.

15. Thank you! I must admit that I’ve never done more than thumb through copies of Good Old Boat in the boater’s lounge at our marina and am, therefore, complicit in its demise. It is gratifying to know, however, that my wife and I are not alone in being repulsed by the apparent race among builders to produce ever more hideous boats – power and sail. We simply cannot believe that anyone finds these attractive or that anyone will after a decade or two.

16. While I do lament the shuttering of the magazine, I think you might be conflating a number of things here. The person who can drop a cool 3/4 of a million $s on a boat isn't going to decide to instead by a Seasprite 23 for 7,000$. If they have been bitten by the wooden boat bug, maybe a three masted schooner, but not a 1973 Allied Mistress.

    It has been my privilege to live all over the country; east coast (both N & S), gulf coast, Pacific NW, & I have to say that a sailing culture in the US is not really widespread, outside of the NE & NW, where the wooden boat tradition is still alive (I know you deal with older model plastic boats, but I'm sure you take my point). Maybe the magazine has gone away, but that only means that there is more information easily referenced in other places (yes, mostly hear on you tube). Isn't that a good thing? (I'm all about letterpress, but…yep)

    I could, & do, easily lament that the US does not have a dinghy culture like Europe does. Do you know how hard it is to find a rowing/sailing dinghy anywhere in the US? Look up dinghies for sale in the SE (my current home), & you will have dozens of racing boats. That's about it. Things change. In 40 years, I imagine the Seasprite & Mistress will still be around, but the currently new (& very ugly) boats will all have disappeared due to the less than solid mfg.

    Still, a good video, & I have enjoyed watching the counters for views & likes tick up while I type this. Add mine to them. I wish you well

17. hey there. appreciate your passion for sailing – particularly for sticking with the older boats that had style! We stopped by Camden just a couple of weeks ago.. i am still munching on some of the salt water taffy that i got at the candy store not too far from you office… and I am thinking about the bookstore that is right there.. O and T – reminiscing about when they were at the original location with 3 floors and the spiral staircase. i used to spend lots of time in the maritime section! I was just looking for a podcast to listen to on the way to work.. will tune into yours! thanks for the effort that you put into these videos.. keep up the good work! jt

18. Plastic boats with plastic people sailing them like it's all happy Happy joy joy.😢 It's not like it used to be.

19. Sad for sure. I subscribed to Practical Boat Owner last week. I'll likely do the same for Practical Sailor soon.

20. Here's hoping issues will be available in PDF.

21. Great but sad episode. While I hate to sound like a grumpy old guy, I love, love, love the classic sailboats. I’m a fairly new boat owner, learning on my 1971 Catalina 22, but already looking for something bigger. I get lots of advice to buy “newer” to have the beamy, fully automatic floating hotel room and while I can appreciate autopilot etc, I’m amazed when I watch some YouTube channel where they cross the Atlantic almost never touching the helm. Doesn’t seem like sailing to me really. I have plans for boat #2 already and I’m hoping for something I can buy in your neck of the woods and sail home to New Orleans and show off along the gulf coast. Keep up with what you are doing. I love the channel.

22. Just a reflection of "our society" LOL. Is it really a surprise? My son was telling me today that 53% (mighta been mas) of 'Murikans do NOT have 3rd grade reading and comprehension abilities (in any language let alone English). Don't believe that includes the many of our 'new neighbors'. Signed in just to comment; I rarely sign in at all. Be safe.

23. Sad to see it go. Times change and unfortunately the digital age is well upon us and is taking no prisoners. I like GOB and own a GOB myself, a Pearson 424. GOB has been a help with the restoration but then again so have books and the internet. Maybe GOB can live on in another form online. Best to you!

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