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tinob
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Initially Posted - 08/31/2006 :  12:03:22  Show Profile
Bill Meinert Jr.'s letter to Sailing World this June askes the Q we all have entertained having read a major sailing mag, " would you rather have one customer who owns a $ 300,000 yacht, or 600 customers who own $ 10,000 boats?"..."the little guy should have a feeling of value, opportumity, and pride when they read magazines such as yours. Fifteen minutes of fame can sell magazines."

You da man William

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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 08/31/2006 :  15:19:26  Show Profile  Visit aeckhart's Homepage
I dropped my subsription to Sailing World fives years ago for that very reason. Their focus is world class cruising boats and cruisers. I have no desire to sail the ocean blue. i do have a burning desire to sail every square mile of the great lakes howver.

I'm about ready to drop Sail magazine also. Their focus is too much big boat racing. Although I race, I don't have that greatan interest in it. I also keep getting three copies of their magazine every month and can't shut it off. I am no longer answering a subscription notice from them.

I am continuing my subscription to Sailing magazine because it gives lip service to pocket cruisers such as ours,has a lot of articles on coastal cruising rather than world ocean cruising, and hardly mentions racing at all.
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 09/01/2006 :  06:58:48  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
I would have said the exact opposite ->Sail is too much big blue cruising and sailing world is too much Racing....
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Alan Clark
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Response Posted - 09/01/2006 :  07:22:46  Show Profile
Bill Meinerts letter to Sailing World spoke volumes , Bill you gave them the "truth that they may not be able to HANDLE"!
GREAT JOB Thanks for doing so!
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 09/01/2006 :  10:49:39  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Duane Wolff</i>
<br />I would have said the exact opposite -&gt;Sail is too much big blue cruising and sailing world is too much Racing....
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ditto, hense Sailing World is the only subscription I paid for myself.
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wmeinert@kconline.com
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Response Posted - 09/01/2006 :  11:08:42  Show Profile
Having not recieved my copy of the magazine this month yet I cannn't honestly respond, but when I wrote that letter it was more in response to how little attention we as a class recieve, especially when we all bust our ass to generate interest in our boats and racing. I honestly hope my words aren't taken wrong, but if you read the previous months issue that I was responding too my response at least seemed timely to what they were asking for. Sorry about the dig at KC, but it was unfortunet that we weren't mentioned as a major racing venue last year. Frank did such a bang up job not to be recconized by his own organization.

Bill
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