Powerboat in the mail today??
 

What's up with that.
Thought the were bought and shut down.
Teague on tech has always been my fav part.
This edition is a little thin,
80 ft Nor tech no one can afford and sone other nice stuff

I got that one a month ago

They were bought, rumored by the new buyers to be shelved then decided to be brought back. The plan for the future looks pretty bright with more event coverage, tests and (the best news) they're upping issues to 6 hard cover and 6 online a year and from what I hear the new software is second to none. Jason is also working on expanding and growing the website. I'm personally pretty excited about what the future hold for PBM.

That 80' Nortech is at the top of my list of boats Id like to see in person. It makes my head spin to think of starting something like that from scratch.

Ive been extremely happy getting Powerboat again. Im starting to look more forward to that than the next issue of Playboy. :drink:

It's absolutely amazing!

(sorry for the crappy audio from my camera)

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BotcJP0D3vw[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7l_PnVjj9M[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqBwoKEjFcI[/YOUTUBE]

Thanx for the info, tank
Hope they are able to continue.
They could take a page from the Sportboat model and try
and attract non boating advertisers, ie trucks and towing.

Sport boat is able to do that with much more ease due to the fact their publisher is huge in the auto arena. PBM has had some big auto name, long term advertisers in the past (Toyota, Porsche GMC come to mind). Having had the opportunity to personally sample advertising sales for PBM, I had high asperations of reaching out to businesses outside of the usual advertisers, but I must say; advertising is a struggle right now. Many are very gaurded with their (routinely minimal) ad budget which, in my opinion, is a double edged sword that causes a vicious cycle: save money but take away much needed public exposure. And I dont care what anyone says, advertising online only just isn't enough. There's a huge (I'd even say majority) of boaters and prospective boaters that don't patron boating forums at all. With all that said, I eagerly await the upcoming issues and look forward to the positive changes!

Tank,

Any timeframe regarding when we as subscribers can expect PBM to continue?

Thanks for the videos Tank, way too cool. How did you manage to get that ride?

An online issue will be out in sept. The "new" hard copy issue will be out Oct (it's the nov/dec issue). Little bit of a lag time between publishers and getting settled in but I know Jasons got big plans.

We went out to Ft. Myers with the PBM test team last Dec. Profiled john woodruffs 48 MTI "windship", a nice deep impact, a fountain CC, formula, cobalt and Donzi's new open bow 35. Did a shop tour at nor-tech with Sobo then headed over to Sarasota to run the "Lady Lisa". Little video running on Windship....Good trip. :drink:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZdbOknuF38[/YOUTUBE]

Nice, Windship is on my list of must see boats as well.

What was your opinion of Deep Impact. Ive only seen them in Florida while passing by. Look like pretty sweet boats!

VERY nice! Fit and finish was beautiful, paint was suttle and classy. The structore for the top was BEEFY! Very classy boat. Even had a bow thruster, which helped with the freeeeeezing cold wind coming off the bay. I rode with Johnny during the tests and the thing handled flawless. Really nothing bad to say about it what-so-ever. Really nice boat.