Commentary: An Apology To Our Readers—Garbage In, Garbage Out Is No Excuse
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Par for the course. I find speedonwater seems like they just rehash press releases. No follow ups. No hard questions. No rocking the boat.
Granted they are in a no win situation. Readers would love it, but access to builders (content) etc would probably be diminished.
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Par for the course. I find speedonwater seems like they just rehash press releases. No follow ups. No hard questions. No rocking the boat.
Granted they are in a no win situation. Readers would love it, but access to builders (content) etc would probably be diminished.
Granted they are in a no win situation. Readers would love it, but access to builders (content) etc would probably be diminished.
That's not opinion. It's fact. Trust me, I do most of the writing.

What's more, we rewrite every release we get—publishing them verbatim is a Journalism 101 no-no—and cut what (in my view) is pure fluff. Quite often, as you will see later today, we do separate interviews to add information not found in the release.
As for the rest, you are completely entitled to your opinion. Of course, I don't share it but that's what makes things fun, right? Cheers.
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For the record, I spent a day in that boat, the outboard-powered 420 Monte Carlo, https://www.speedonthewater.com/quic...0-monte-carlo/, and I didn't find it meh. And I've been fortunate to spend time in a lot of cool boats.
But meh is in the eye of the beholder, wouldn't you say?
Cheers.
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a bit of knowledge here you ck and adjust or calibrate a radar gun with small tuning forks that have different speed stamped on them you also are supposed to be straight with the object your radaring i think its 10 or more degrees and its not accurate
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You are 100 percent correct. I cannot tell you how many times I used those tuning forks with Stalker guns at Powerboat magazine. Every morning when we started, any time we had shut it down because a battery went dead or the readings gon wonky.




