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I like his magazine and I always pick up a copy, however I decided to publish my own cruise magazine called "CRUISIN AUTHORITY". It's not out yet, it's in the early stages of development, but may see it's first printing August of this year.
[This message has been edited by sympatico (edited 04-16-2000).]
My first printing will be only 5000 magazines. The magazine will be have a nice color glossy cover but to save money for now, the interior pages will be in black and white.
The articles in the first issue will be as follows: Ship Inspection Report of the Galaxy and the SeaBreeze, Games on Cruise Ships, QE-2 Then and Now, Crossing Then Cruising Now, How To Pick The Cruise That's Right For You, and a unique Cruise Line Catalog.
CRUISIN AUTHORITY will have lot's of great photos and text about ships. There will be an ongoing theme where we will blend information from the trans-Atlantic era with the Cruise Industry of today. But primarily this is a magazine for the cruising comunity.
I do currently have two wonderful writers whom you may recognize from Cruise Travel magazine, Brook Hill Snow and Laurence Miller. They will probably have an article in the next publication, but not in this first issue, which was actually written and produced entirely by your's truly, Barryboat. Perhaps when I finally get the magazine printed, I'll ask Joe at Travel Page if there is a way we can offer it to those who frequent this great site???
I've taken everything I like from Cruise Travel and Porthole and I've just made my own magazine. There's very little advertising, and the whole magazine is about cruise ships and and cruise lines. You won't see many articles about ports of call or fashion, or things unrelated to the cruise industry. You will see good writing about ships and the industry. There will be some articles that will give technical information about cruise ships and answer some of those technical questions many people wonder about. Like how do those Stabilizers really work, or what is the function of the bulbous bow?
[This message has been edited by Barryboat (edited 04-17-2000).]
How about an article (and some pictures) of classic liners each issue?
I also have an article Crossing Then Cruising Now, which gives a blow-by-blow account of a day aboard the Queen Mary in the fifties, and then the same blow-by-blow account of a day aboard the Zenith. This article shows the incredible similarities of traveling by trans-Atlantic liner and by cruise ship.
I have been working on a detailed article of what a crossing on the Queen Mary would have been like, looking through the eyes of someone who lives in the 90's and the 2000's. It's kind of a time travel story of a guy who appears at the docks in New York to find that he as a First Class Cunard Line ticket in his pocket, and just about to board the Queen Mary for England in the fifties. I try to bring to life the smells, the sounds, and the feelings of making a crossing on Queen Mary. This will be quite the article, since I have never made a crossing in the Queen Mary.
Anyways, I've rambled long enough. The bottom line is that ocean liner buffs will enjoy this magazine.
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