Way back in the last millennium, back in the late 1900s a parody of the classic magazine 'Yachting' was published by Elizebeth Meyer perhaps best known for restoring the famous J Class sloop 'Endeavour'. The journal came out as a single issue back in 1984 and took aim at just about anything that was then representative of 'traditional' yachting life. Racers, cruisers, yacht clubs, companies and yachtsmen were all subjected to what might have been an evening 'roast'.
We saw Lin Pardey at the recent Strictly Sail Pacific show in Oakland and she passed on a copy to peruse. We found ourselves laughing just like we did 30 years ago. In fact the first time we saw it we were working a booth at the Long Beach boat show and booth next door was selling hot off the press copies. We thought we'd share a couple pages of this classic and wonder what a similar parody might look like 30 years later in 2015?? Full of sexual innuendo, sharp barbs and classic party tales it seems it might ruffle more feathers today than it might have then. Besides foiling, new rating rules, catamarans in charter fleets, the Jules Verne Trophy what has changed since 1984?
Some sample pages from the one and only edition of 'Yaachting' magazine:
Is it time for the next edition?
