Good Old Boat

Founded by Karen Larson and Jerry Powlas, Good Old Boat magazine is a bimonthly publication for sailors focusing on maintaining, upgrading, and owning cruising sailboats built since the late 1998s. Readers are part of a community of sailors who have similar maintenance and replacement concerns. In addition, the magazine reviews sailboats in current... use but no longer in production and publishes historical articles about the people and companies in the sailing industry who have influenced the fiberglass designs now considered to be "good old boats." The magazine is owned by Karen Larson and Jerry Powlas, under their S-Corporation, Partnership for Excellence, Inc., in Maple Grove, Minnesota. The company is a "virtual organization" in the sense that there is no headquarters building. The few full- and part-time employees and a large number of freelancers -- all of whom contribute regularly to the magazine content and production -- work in their own homes and are linked through email and servers. The magazine was founded in 1997; the first issue was published in June 1998. The publication is set up as a subscriber-supported magazine. It accepts advertising, but relies primarily on income from subscriptions and newsstand sales. The magazine's website, www.goodoldboat.com, offers a wide variety of resources for sailors at no charge, including the largest list of sailboat associations and informal user groups in the world, a vast searchable database of marine suppliers, a treasury of sail insignia and cove stripes used to help identify boat manufacturers, a listing of free and inexpensive (available for less than $5,000) sailboats, a growing directory of sailing blogs, classified ads, parts catalogs, links, sponsored regattas, and more. In addition to publishing six annual issues of the magazine and six annual issues of a newsletter for subscribers, the company has also produced a large number of audiobook titles, featuring sailing classics along with newer fare: http://www.AudioSeaStories.com. An overview of the ...Read More