Good Old Boat

Good Old Boat magazine is a bimonthly American sailing magazine founded by a sailing couple in 1997. The first issue was published in June 1998. It's website is www.GoodOldBoat.com. The International Standard Serial Number is ISSN 1099-6354.
Founded by Karen Larson and Jerry Powlas, the magazine focuses on maintaining, upgrading, and owning cruising sailboats built since the late 1950's. Readers are part of a community of sailors who share similar maintenance and replacement concerns. In addition, the magazine reviews sailboats in current use but no longer in production and publishes historical articles about the people and companies in the sailing industry who have influenced the fiberglass designs now considered to be “good old boats.”
Good Old Boat magazine is owned by Larson and Powlas, under their S-Corporation, Partnership for Excellence, Inc., in Maple Grove, Minnesota. The company is a “virtual organization” in the sense that there is no headquarters building. The few full- and part-time employees and a large number of freelancers, all of whom contribute regularly to the magazine content and production, work in their own homes and are linked through email and servers.
The publication is set up as a subscriber-supported magazine. It accepts advertising, but relies primarily on income from subscriptions and newsstand sales.
In addition to publishing six annual issues of the magazine and six annual issues of a newsletter for subscribers, the company has also produced 12 audiobook titles under the name AudioSeaStories.com.
An overview of the company was published in the 10-year anniversary issue, July 2008. A PDF can be downloaded at .

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