As some of you know, my day job is in magazines. As a journalist, one of my personality disorders is that I always want to set the record straight. George Buehler wrote: >And just as appalling, NO national magazine including >Passagemaker, ever mentioned it. Could it be that I don't spend >thousands in ads in their rags? Power Cruising, the other national magazine devoted to voyaging and cruising under power, published a lengthy report with many fine photographs on Ben Gray's remarkable circumnavigation. Bob England wrote: >His boats may not be featured in Norhavn iIlustrated (passagemaker), >but they are >still out there quietly getting the job done. I assume Bob refers to Circumnavigator, the Nordhavn magazine. In the last edition, a photo of Idlewild in ice in the Northwest Passage was published, and Ben Gray and his sons were added to the magazine's honor roll of circumnavigators under power. That same honor roll appears on the Web on the Trawlers & Trawlering site: http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com/circumnavigators/circumnavigators.html Trawlers & Trawlering gave the Idlewild circumnavigation extensive coverage: http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com/news/idlewildcomplete.html Ben Gray and his sons and Idlewild, which I believe was a George Buehler-Ben Gray collaboration, deserved every bit of recognition for the incredible voyage. Disclosure: At the time I wrote the Idlewild story for Power Cruising, I was the magazine's field editor. I always have been and still am editor of Circumnavigator. --Georgs -- Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering, formerly Trawler World, since 1997 Site see: <http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com>

My apologies to Georgs who, many of you may not know, broke the sailing speed record from New York to SF I think it was, some years ago. As well as to the Nordhaven folks for their coverage of Ben. I didn't know that either.... But I meant rags like Yachting, Motorboating and Sailing, Sea, etc. Hell, when the first Westsail 32 went around the world it was even written up in TIME magazine. Probably because of the woman. Time's photo of the boat was the bow of the boat, shot from a low skiff, focused on the crotch of this very cute blond who was wearing short shorts. Needless to say every 40s something guy who could do it went out and bought a Westsail 32....... George Georgs Kolesnikovs wrote: >As some of you know, my day job is in magazines. As a journalist, one >of my personality disorders is that I always want to set the record >straight. > >George Buehler wrote: > > >>And just as appalling, NO national magazine including >>Passagemaker, ever mentioned it. Could it be that I don't spend >>thousands in ads in their rags? >> >> > >Power Cruising, the other national magazine devoted to voyaging and >cruising under power, published a lengthy report with many fine >photographs on Ben Gray's remarkable circumnavigation. > >Bob England wrote: > > >>His boats may not be featured in Norhavn iIlustrated (passagemaker), >>but they are >>still out there quietly getting the job done. >> >> > >I assume Bob refers to Circumnavigator, the Nordhavn magazine. In the >last edition, a photo of Idlewild in ice in the Northwest Passage was >published, and Ben Gray and his sons were added to the magazine's >honor roll of circumnavigators under power. > >That same honor roll appears on the Web on the Trawlers & Trawlering site: > >http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com/circumnavigators/circumnavigators.html > >Trawlers & Trawlering gave the Idlewild circumnavigation extensive coverage: > >http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com/news/idlewildcomplete.html > >Ben Gray and his sons and Idlewild, which I believe was a George >Buehler-Ben Gray collaboration, deserved every bit of recognition for >the incredible voyage. > >Disclosure: At the time I wrote the Idlewild story for Power >Cruising, I was the magazine's field editor. I always have been and >still am editor of Circumnavigator. > >--Georgs > > -- George Buehler Yacht Design Box 966, Freeland, WA 98249 tel & fax: 360-331-5866 Web Sites: http://georgebuehler.com & http://dieselducks.com

Whether selling beer or boats, the same advertising approach works. Apparently. John On Nov 12, 2008, at 11:02 AM, George Buehler Yacht Design wrote: > > > Hell, when the first Westsail 32 went around the world it was even > written up in TIME magazine. Probably because of the woman. Time's > photo of the boat was the bow of the boat, shot from a low skiff, > focused on the crotch of this very cute blond who was wearing short > shorts. Needless to say every 40s something guy who could do it went > out and bought a Westsail 32....... > > George