jungpeter
Guru
For what it's worth, I sent the following email to the editor of Passagemaker Magazine last November. Not so surprisingly, no response to date, either via an email reply, or in the magazine. So much for a subscriber contribution. And as the issues continue, I will no longer renew either.
" Dear Mr. Parkinson,
As a charter subscriber to PASSAGEMAKER magazine, I have maintained my subscription from its inception, though the middle east coast-centric Annapolis years, through various ownership changes, to today's southeast-centric persona of the magazine. As such, I acknowledge and support the impossibility of being the end-all boating magazine for all persons, 100% of the time. So it's the caribbean fan's turn this month-I get it.
However, my perception of the editorial direction of today's magazine seems to be drifting towards becoming the "Sunset Magazine of boating" rather than your own moniker of "The World's Cruising Authority". In particular, September's issue includes your personal editorial admonition to "...appreciate being just a little late". That's sorta hard with a freezer full of food, a failed generator, and a mechanic thats "...just a little late."
Your boat review of the Krogen Express reads as a travelogue of the Abacos, and fails to reveal little more than the bare essentials of what the Krogen Express is all about.
The Rum Renaissance? Really?
Lastly, there's the total puff piece regarding the delivery of a Beneteau Swift Trawler 47 from the Pacific Northwest towards Southern California. Sorry, I still don't believe the hype. Ask Beneteau to turn that puppy around, and steam from SoCal to the PNW in late summer into the teeth of the typical 25 knot NW wind, with 4-6' wind chop over a 10' swell, for multiple days 24/7 and THEN report how happy and smiley the delivery captain is. Methinks it'll be a different story.
PASSAGEMAKER reminds me more and more of the little old lady at the burger stand-"where's the meat"? "
Regards,
Pete
" Dear Mr. Parkinson,
As a charter subscriber to PASSAGEMAKER magazine, I have maintained my subscription from its inception, though the middle east coast-centric Annapolis years, through various ownership changes, to today's southeast-centric persona of the magazine. As such, I acknowledge and support the impossibility of being the end-all boating magazine for all persons, 100% of the time. So it's the caribbean fan's turn this month-I get it.
However, my perception of the editorial direction of today's magazine seems to be drifting towards becoming the "Sunset Magazine of boating" rather than your own moniker of "The World's Cruising Authority". In particular, September's issue includes your personal editorial admonition to "...appreciate being just a little late". That's sorta hard with a freezer full of food, a failed generator, and a mechanic thats "...just a little late."
Your boat review of the Krogen Express reads as a travelogue of the Abacos, and fails to reveal little more than the bare essentials of what the Krogen Express is all about.
The Rum Renaissance? Really?
Lastly, there's the total puff piece regarding the delivery of a Beneteau Swift Trawler 47 from the Pacific Northwest towards Southern California. Sorry, I still don't believe the hype. Ask Beneteau to turn that puppy around, and steam from SoCal to the PNW in late summer into the teeth of the typical 25 knot NW wind, with 4-6' wind chop over a 10' swell, for multiple days 24/7 and THEN report how happy and smiley the delivery captain is. Methinks it'll be a different story.
PASSAGEMAKER reminds me more and more of the little old lady at the burger stand-"where's the meat"? "
Regards,
Pete