Now that it finally feels like the boating season has arrived after one of the longest, wettest winters any of us can remember, it’s a good time to remind you all that many of the most interesting stories in the magazine are written by readers.
I’ve already sung the praises of Ian Furby’s spectacular Big Trip Small Boat series, which concludes this month (p94) but two other articles also stand out in this issue, both of which were written by MBY readers. The first is Neil and Tina Marley’s piece on how a holiday whim to rent a small RIB for the day ultimately led to them buying a share of a Princess 61 in Portugal (p34). The other is from Martin Stanley, who decided to replace the tubes on his 17-year-old Cobra RIB and now has a boat that looks and feels like new for a fraction of the price (p82).
Both are great examples of how to maximise your fun-to-expense ratio, and we only know about them because they took the trouble to contact me. So if you’ve got a story to tell or have plans for this summer, why not drop me a line now? It could be a charter holiday you’ve booked, a cruising adventure you’ve planned, a new boat you’ve bought or an old one you’re doing up. We can always provide advice on how to go about it and even help with the writing. The one thing we can’t do is photograph things restrospectively so make sure you take a really comprehensive set of photographs (a modern smart phone should do the trick), and ping me an emai
