In article , Donal
wrote:

"Simple Simon" wrote in message
...
If, like me, you've read sailing magazines for more than five
years you've come to the conclusion there is nothing new under
the sun.

True.


I have a file about four inches thick into which I put articles,
reference data, specs, how-to's etc from sailing magazines I
used to subscribe to. I quit putting stuff into the file when it
started to repeat. This occurred after only three or four years
time.

Exactly the same here!

Same with all magazines I think. I used to get 'Mother Earth News' in
the 70's & 80's. Stopped when they had nothing new to offer. Ditto
'Home Shop Machinist'. They eventually need to start running articles
for the newbies and the old subscribers lose interest. That set of
people have probably bought all the 'must have' gear and become a lot
more sophisticated about the luxury stuff so they're no loss to
advertisers anyway. Newbies will spend more money.

I finally found sufficient justification for buying a framing nailgun
tho. Not sure what boat stuff it'll come in handy for, but it makes
building the shed frames a lot simpler.

PDW