Larry W4CSC wrote:

Oh, come now. When was the last time you saw a posting ON A COMPANY
MODERATED CHATROOM or in an advertiser-supported boat magazine that
said the company's or advertiser's products really sucked. Hell,
reading a boat magazine is like reading a sales brochure, totally
designed to unload products, which is why the company sponsors the
chatroom IT CONTROLS.


Funny you should ask. Cruising World's bulletin board has always been somewhat "energetic" (as another has recently described it). There are certainly a lot of opinions there. All of them except mine are wrong, of course '-}

Unfortunately, a couple of days ago they changed their BB software and what for years has been a great forum became pretty unusable. They are working on it and acting on suggestions, but I dunno if it will ever again be the board that it was.

Fortunately, SailboatOwners.com stepped in and created a new board using the same software that CW abandonded and most if not all of the denizens have moved over there. http://www.cs-bb.com/forums/CWBB/index.cgi

At the moment, there's still a lot of traffic bemoaning the change at CW and thanking SailboatOwners.com for setting up of the new board, but the sailing related traffic is picking back up. For instance Bob Perry (the guy who designed my boat, Tayana 37 among many others) recently started a thread that has some good information on it regarding gimbaled vs. non-gimbaled / mast vs. tower radar mounts
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Dan Best - (707) 431-1662, Healdsburg, CA 95448
B-2/75 1977-1979
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