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

De: @nsw1959

@nsw1959 — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:16:51 +0000

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!

De: @user-mo1dn3hk4d

@user-mo1dn3hk4d — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 04:53:05 +0000

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.

De: @thomasvoss7145

@thomasvoss7145 — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 04:40:34 +0000

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.

De: @dadzilla007

@dadzilla007 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 01:45:52 +0000

Here's hoping issues will be available in PDF.

De: @trailzable

@trailzable — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 01:24:12 +0000

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

De: @mountainmandale1587

@mountainmandale1587 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:30:18 +0000

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

De: @jasonthatcher9345

@jasonthatcher9345 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 23:47:08 +0000

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

De: @mcrumph

@mcrumph — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 20:25:16 +0000

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

De: @boomerantics9586

@boomerantics9586 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:48:22 +0000

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.

De: @UUBrahman

@UUBrahman — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:47:17 +0000

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.