Canadian Yachting

Canadian Yachting is a bi-monthly (6 issues a year)[2] magazine, and boating news website which documents the Canadian yachting scene - from dinghies to keelboats, cruising to racing, youth sailing and around the world events.[3][4] Canadian Yachting is published in Midland, Ontario by publisher Greg Nicoll, with Managing Editor Andy Adams, and has a paid circulation of 30,000.[1] Canadian Yachting also produces related bi-Weekly e-newsletters[3] in National, West and Atlantic editions, as well as a digital magazine edition.[5] Canadian Yachting maintains a comprehensive web site, under the care of Online Editor John Morris, which first went online in November 2009.[6]

Canadian Yachting
Canadian Yachting, February 2019
Managing EditorAndy Adams
Online EditorJohn Morris
Travel EditorElizabeth Kerr
CategoriesSport, Leisure, Travel
FrequencyBi-monthly
Format8' x 10 3/4"
PublisherGreg Nicoll
Total circulation
(2012)
30,000[1]
Year founded1976
CompanyAdastra Media Inc. in association with Kerrwil Publications Limited
CountryCanada
Based inMidland, Ontario
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.canadianyachting.ca
ISSN0384-0999
OCLC423622220

Canadian Yachting is Canada’s only national boating lifestyle magazine which features local, regional, national and international destinations, power and sailboat reviews, as well as how to articles on safety, seamanship, electronics, navigation, DIY repairs and upgrades, and entertaining. The publication is known for its boat reviews, both of new and current models as well as those on the used boat market. Other key features include an extensive classifieds section and an Ask the Experts column.[4] A subscription is included with a membership to Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons.[7] Four issues of Canadian Yachting per year contain the Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons publication, The Port Hole.[8]

History

Canadian Yachting Cover, first issue, September 1976

Canadian Yachting was founded in September 1976 (Volume 1, Number 1) by publisher Gerald Gordon Kidd, under the editorship of Ron Joiner, assisted by John Turnbull, working out of the Vancouver, British Columbia offices of Pacific Yachting Magazine[9] (also published by Gerald Kidd),[10] although a Church Street, Toronto address was listed as their formal address, and later headquarters. The first issue included an extensive preview of "Dockside 76" that was to be held in September of that year at Ontario Place, under the title "Dockside Boat Show Section."[9]

Gerald Kidd eventually sold his entire publishing company to MacLean Hunter in 1978.[10] Canadian Yachting was published by Maclean-Hunter from December 1978 (V.3 no.12) up to 'Summer' 1990 (V.16 no.4, with an erroneous label suggesting V.17 [sic]), and, since September 1990 (V.16 no.5), has been published six times a year by Kerrwil Publications.[9]

Canadian Yachting West

Canadian Yachting West, a magazine edition catering more specifically to a west coast audience, launched with the January 2012 edition, still with a national view, but with a west coast perspective.[11] The Canadian Yachting West edition was published up to at least the April 2016 edition.[12]

Awards

In its second year of publication a Canadian Yachting article titled Tuning Racing Cats, written by Larry Woods, won a National Magazine Award for the Category: Science & Technology.[13] In 1982 a Canadian Yachting article titled The Cruelest Month, written by Larry Woods, won gold in the National Magazine Awards for the Category: Humour, and in that same year another Canadian Yachting Article, Yacht Design Plugs In, won honourable Mention for John Turnbull, in the Category: Science & Technology.[14]

References

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