[C320-list] Cruising / sailing magazines

[RONALD HODEL]

For many many years Catalina NEVER advertised anywhere. (We’ve had Catalinas since 1971 - bought our 1st one - a 22 - when Butler was turning out 2 boats a week ) They didn’t need to advertise. Us happy Catalina owners marketed their boats proudly. Times changed and every once in a while you might see a Catalina ad but not often. I’ll proudly show off my 320 to anyone and Catalina doesn’t even need to pay me. And when it comes to materials, we dropped our rudder to get a tiny wobble out of it (more a bother to me than anything else) and the boat yard manager, commenting on the ever so slight pitting in the rudder shaft said, unsolicitedly, you’re lucky its not one of those boats (as he nodded toward a ‘French’ boat). “They don’t use nearly as high quality material as Catalina.” 

Ron Hodel
#1070 Lokomaikai

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> On Oct 30, 2021, at 6:14 AM, Jack Brennan <jackbrennan at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> Most sailing magazines, Good Old Boat excepted, only write about the companies that buy ads in their publications. It has always baffled me how they retain any subscribers when most of their articles are about multimillion-dollar boats that the vast majority of us could never hope to afford. 
> 
> Catalina has a large, loyal base of customers who have kept the company profitable in times that have sunk most other boat manufacturers. I suspect it doesn’t need to buy a bunch of ads to keep sufficient orders rolling in.
> 
> I’ve never liked the French boats much. I don’t think the construction and quality of materials matches those of Catalina. 
> 
> Jack Brennan
> Sonas, 1998 Catalina 320
> Tierra Verde, Fl.
> 
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> Sent from Mail for Windows
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> From: Joe M
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2021 7:56 AM
> To: c320-list at lists.catalina320.com
> Subject: [C320-list] Cruising / sailing magazines
> 
> I get subscriptions I read each month of a couple/few mags and anything
> else I come across.
> 
> I see articles and advertisements, etc for jeanneau, beneteau and
> everything in between but never a mention of Catalinas.
> 
> Why is that?
>