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BCG-Woodbury
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Initially Posted - 10/20/2012 :  16:04:52  Show Profile
I asked my wife to get me a subscription to Good Old Boat magazine for my recent birthday after picking up a copy at a local flea market this summer. This magazine is targeted at boat owners like us (10-30 year old sailboats). The articles are well written and there is minimal advertising. The subscription is rather pricey ($40/yr.) and they don't offer any discounts to clubs or organizations. If you go to their website (www.goodoldboat.com) they will send you a free electronic copy to preview. Check it out, let me know what you think.

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Brian & JoAnne Gleissner
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1984 Catalina 25, SR/SK
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BCG-Woodbury
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Response Posted - 10/20/2012 :  16:26:36  Show Profile
BTW, if anyone wants to preview the electronic copy I'll send it to you via e-mail. Send me an e-mail to bgleissner@aol.com and I'll forward it rather than going to the website and registering anything.

All the best,
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britinusa
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Response Posted - 10/20/2012 :  16:27:00  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
I pick up a copy of GOB whenever I see it at WM.

Not especially relavant to the C250, but many great articles that are worth the read.

Currently, we get Sail, Cruising World, Trailering, Boat US & Practical Sailor as well, of course, The Mainsheet.

Paul
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 10/21/2012 :  08:55:23  Show Profile
Does anybody know of an archive (like Google books) for old boating mags? Aside from just having digital rights to peruse the archive if you have a current subscription, it would be handy to be able to look up old articles from Practical Sailor and GOB.
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BCG-Woodbury
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Response Posted - 10/21/2012 :  09:59:17  Show Profile
Bruce - I know GOB offers back issues for sail. It might be worth just getting the ones that feature Catalina articles although I've found all the content very applicable to all sailbouts out size and year.

All the best,
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 10/21/2012 :  14:54:05  Show Profile
And a subscription gets back past articles from PS now.
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 10/21/2012 :  20:17:53  Show Profile
I checked Google Books and there's lot of archive content available, for a fee...
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awetmore
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Response Posted - 10/22/2012 :  08:36:59  Show Profile
GOB sells back years in PDF form for a fairly reasonable price (less than their subscription rate). When I find an article that I'd like to read I buy the whole year's worth of the magazine and browse the rest. I've found it to be a good magazine.

Once you have a subscription to Practical Sailor online you can read all of their old content. It is hard to browse but easy to search.
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bigelowp
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Response Posted - 10/23/2012 :  05:31:51  Show Profile
Good Old Boats, while not quite as good as it was, is still well worth the subscription. They send e-mails and have blogs that you can't get unless a subscriber. Practical Sailor is the other great subscription as you have access to their archive, albeit it is not as user friendly as it could be and they do charge for some content if you download to print. If you want to live vicariously they look into Cruising World. Unlike the other two CW has boat show deals so a subscription can be very inexpensive if you sign up at a boat show and, we all can dream of far away places on our 50 foot + . . . . . .
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