If RCBM dies what will you miss most?

[Steven Vaccaro]

As the title says, if RCBM does die, what will you miss the most?

[Flying Scotsman]

As the title says, if RCBM does die, what will you miss the most?

Actually Steven, all of the articles you mention.

Douggie

[Xzessperated]

Actually Steven, all of the articles you mention.

Douggie

with you Douggie.
RCBM helped me get started in R/C model boats. I had no forums back then and I read every issue from cover to cover. I got other model boat magazines but RCBM became my Bible for boating. Almost ready to race electric boats were doing 25 to 28 mph back then. I blew so many cans by running way to many volts on them. Now the speed is much higher and I would not want to go back to can motors but I will miss RCBM if it goes.

[AndyKunz]

Jay's condensations of forum comments and debates into a single two-page article that covers everything thoroughly and fairly.

And very little else.

Andy

[egneg]

There should be a choice for all of the above! I have kept every issue since I started getting it.

[Ub Hauled]

I like Jay's column as well... and sometimes the store reference that are advertised... the new items on the market deal sometimes is not that well covered, I think they should do better
I use to have the subscription, but when push came to push it was
a pretty expensive annual subscription for only 4 issues for what it offered me.

[txboatpilot]

I will miss keeping up with new products and most of all Jay Turner's Fast Electric's column...

[motoxbob11]

Other than Jay Turner's articles the magazine was pretty much just a big advertisement anyway. ( except for all those "scale" fanatics and their obsessive planking) I think Jay needs to gather some investment capital and start his own magazine. The title? "Fluid" of course!

[ace028]

I like the readers rides and the build articles, espicially the FE ones. I don't know of any other magazine, I would hate to see the magazine cancled.

There are 2 things that have bothered me about the mag,
1, they asked me to renew my suspsctiption before I even received my first issue, whats up with that?
2, I flip through the magazine, and see some of the same exact articles that was in a Rc car action magazine, which is fine I guess.

But I would really hate to see them go.

[tth]

Like most of us here I say Jay's column and also the new products.

[Steven Vaccaro]

Well with all the people that surf this forum we have only had 12 people that are interested enough to actually take the time to post or take the poll.

[10gauge]

Can Nostalgia Have a Future?

In a world without internet, RCBM is how I first became interested in RC boats way back in high school. When I first stumbled upon the magazine cover at the news stand in Harvard Square - I knew that I'd want an RC boat someday. It was years after school that I was able to afford the hobby. For nostalgic reasons it would be sad to see it go. As was the case in my experience, it may inhibit newcomers to the hobby, especially when a child is at a news stand and sees a dashing RC boat on the cover for the first time. There won't be "Love At First Site" at the news stand anymore...

However, for intermediate to advanced builders, there is no functional value for the magazine, except for Jay Turner's articles. Much like all magazines these days, 96% of all the income comes from advertising and 100% of the articles are printed to appease the advertisers. All printed media is suffering these days. Just look at all the newspapers and magazines that are for sale! It's a staggering number right now and RCBM is no exception to this trend. The paradigm shift is to "print" everything online.

Personally, between RRR and OSE, I get much more information, advice, and interaction with fellow RC boaters than I could ever get from a printed magazine at a news stand.

Jay Turner is the "Godfather" of RC boating; the lighthouse for our hobby! I definitely agree with the appeal to having a Web based magazine headed by Jay or Steve. Perhaps a coalition of experienced RC Boaters can come to terms with one another and forge a panel of articles, impartial reviews, and as well as ads. Several advertisers can cover all the operating costs and then some. I estimate that there are at least few thousand RC boaters just between OSE, RRR, and IW - that's enough to get started...

[sjslhill]

Was Jerry Yarish still connected to RCBM?

[ron Olson]

Some that weren't on the poll, the head-to-head shoot-outs and race/event coverage.
Being one of those fuel-burning people with both nitro and now as of this past year, gas, I myself found too many articles on anything electric. Don't take that the wrong way as I did at one time run electric boats and have been to several events involving electric boats including a Michigan Cup race and the Great Lakes Scale Ship Regatta's.
I agree with too many articles being lifted from RCCA to fill the pages, one of my biggest gripes.
Knowing a couple of the writers from RCBM I've been told by them what you saw in their articles is not what they sent in. The editors or someone on the staff hacks away at them and what you see is what's left. Some of what is left can actually make the writer look bad.
There were only 3 respected writers that I did trust, Jerry Dunlap, John Finch and most of the time, Rick Eyrich. Jay did good work as he stayed away from pushing products down our throats and had more educational articles.
At one time Matt even offered to have me write for them but he wanted to start me out doing things like building boat stands. Those types of articles have already been done to death.

What really rattled my cage is when I was a subscriber, I'd see the latest issue on the stands sometimes a week or more before I got my copy in the mail. You'd think that those people that they know are going to be steady customers might at least should have theirs by the time that they're in the LHS or bookstore.

[Ub Hauled]

What really rattled my cage is when I was a subscriber, I'd see the latest issue on the stands sometimes a week or more before I got my copy in the mail. You'd think that those people that they know are going to be steady customers might at least should have theirs by the time that they're in the LHS or bookstore.

ME TOO!!!! Usually the people that are the loyal customers, the subscribers, get the issues BEFORE they hit the stands!!! I had forgotten all about this little problem...
in my book, that is one of the mortal sins of subscribed magazines...