"Powerboat Reports"
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Butch Davis
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Wow, glad I didn't renew.
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Got the same email today.
I just renewed for 2 years a couple months ago, wish I would have waited... Didn't they have some sort of lifetime subscription offer a couple years ago? When they did that I figured they were desperate for a cash infusion. The subscriptions were expensive, I always had to think twice about renewing and a couple times cancelled it for a while. All the information online these days may have hurt them also.
The last time I renewed, it was for a three-year stint. That expires in July 2008. Guess I lost. Funny thing is that I wasn't planning to renew again. I have about 4 issues which I have yet to read and winter is over......
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Sad to see them go. Are there any other magazines out there that do similar type reports with no ads? In other mags (where they accept advertising), all you read are "wonderful" reviews and very wonderful reviews. They all blow sunchine up your stern. They're all afraid of upsetting their sponsors.
Grady Wahoo
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Maybe all the boating forums on the net had something to do with it. After all, you can ask about any year, length and model of most any brand and get the real story from real owners. Just a thought....
I think it was a recent Offshore mag. I was reading last night that had a real swell writeup/review of the Luhrs 41. Seems I've read on the net otherwise!
I had read some good comparitive reviews in there about electronics, but back to the boating forums point.........
I think it was a recent Offshore mag. I was reading last night that had a real swell writeup/review of the Luhrs 41. Seems I've read on the net otherwise!
I had read some good comparitive reviews in there about electronics, but back to the boating forums point.........
I loved their product tests! One purchase I made based on their test results/recommendations was the fume detector for my bilge. I got the one which turns on the blower for 10 sec prior to setting off the alarm. I've had it for over ten years and it still works great. I have never had a false alarm with it!
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"Powerboat Reports" was a sister publication to "Practical Sailor" and had many of the same articles, just directed to the powerboat crowd. I wonder if "Practical Sailor" is still going to be published? It was EXTREMELY popular with the sailboat crowd.
I'm going to miss it. It was an expensive read, though.
I purchased many products based on their recommendations --from bottom paint to oil changers, binoculars to rigging knives....and finally to flashlights: PBR introduced me to the awesome line of SureFire illumination products.
I purchased many products based on their recommendations --from bottom paint to oil changers, binoculars to rigging knives....and finally to flashlights: PBR introduced me to the awesome line of SureFire illumination products.
It was posted on another site that those of us with unfulfilled subscriptions will supposedly receive at least twice the number of Boating Mag issues as PBR issues not received. I'm not that excited about but at least it's not Geriatric Cruise Magazine or Spray-Cheez Monthly or some such.