Product evaluations of sailboats and sailing equipment.
N**.
Excellent magazine for many years
Excellent source of know how to any sailor
L**Y
As close to the absolute truth as you can get in Boatland
Sailboats may ride with the wind and float on the water, but they are absolutelysold with hype and romance. If you consider that the sailing tradition itself is a combination of elitist romanticism and macho stoicism, it seems almostnatural that it's hard to get straight information about anything.Most Sailing magazines are advertising-driven. That means that they make theirmoney by catering to their advertisers, so 'product reviews' are really pretty muchpuff pieces. Even the most experienced and forthright sailors have limitedexperience with brands of boats and types of gear.Into the gap comes Practical Sailor. PS accepts no advertising. It does rigorous testingand includes information on products that are never advertised. (Has any other boatingmagazine reviewed the splendid Rhodes 22?). It is thoroughly indexed and non-subscriberscan order reprints of articles on topics of interest to them.Note that the reviews tend to be of very high-end items and that an annualsubscription is a pricey $84 for 20 issues. That's a lot of money in the worldof magazines, but not much money in the world of sailboats.Lynn Hoffman-author of The New Short Course in Wine and the outrageous new novel bang BANG.
3**O
Good Stuff
I've been a long-term subscriber, it is a consistently EXCELLENT publication.
