"Peter Aitken" wrote in
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I've noticed that magazine reviews never have anything bad to say.
They may pick a nit or two in an attempt to seem objective, but I just
don't trust them. Also a product may work fine when new but be subject
to problems down the road like the one you describe.


The only way it will ever be objective is if there is some non-marine-
business-connected organization that works for its readers, not its
advertisers.....just like Consumer's Union does for its subscribers with
its own testing labs and experts and NO ADS. Otherwise, you end up with
the mutual admiration society that is marine magazines....

Brunswick makes amazingly wonderful boats because they buy wonderfully
profitable advertising in every publication. Then you run into some little
bump of a blog like David Pascoe's Fiberglass questions:
http://www.yachtsurvey.com/Fiberglass_Boats.htm
Funny, I never saw any pictures like this on the Sea Ray ads or in Sea
Ray's magazine I can't stop them from sending me.

What boating needs is some really serious WEBLOGS to bypass the
manufacturer/dealer influence and expose the nonsense in the business.