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Who should I contact?
Article submission and editorial calendar.
Technical and "where to find it" questions.
Subscription and renewal, Good Old Boat bookshelf orders, other merchandise.
Display advertising, advertiser newsletter, subscriber newsletter. Suppliers directory additions and changes.
Accounting questions, sailing classifieds. Owners' association additions and changes.
Website-related questions. Boat photos submissions, Fixer-upper boat listings.
Blogs and sites submissions. Consignment page submissions, boat review page submissions, Disabled sailors' organizations listings.
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Good Old Boat
8810 27th Street Ct. N.
Lake Elmo, MN 55042-9473
Business Office
Good Old Boat
1501 8th Ave, N.W.
Jamestown, ND 58401
Phone: 701-952-9433
Fax: 701-952-9434
Editorial Office
Good Old Boat
7340 Niagara Ln. N.
Maple Grove, MN 55311-2655
Phone: 701-952-9433
Fax: 701-952-9434
The nutshell overview (just the facts, ma'am)
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 1950s. 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 Larson and 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 free resources for sailors, 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, a directory of disabled sailing organizations, 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 12 audiobook titles, featuring sailing classics along with newer fare: http://www.AudioSeaStories.com.
An overview of the company was published in the 10-year anniversary issue, July 2008. A PDF can be downloaded at http://www.goodoldboat.com/pdfs/JA08_LaunchAmag.pdf.
