Im not into kiting, but they do have a good Aussie mag...why cant wavesailers have the same style of mag as them and surfers? Iam sick of reading about pommies and paying so much for those foreign ****house mags!! Youve got to admit freesail can be ****ing lame too most of the time.

i like the Windsurf UK mag .. i think that is pretty good. and new zeland wind and kite mag last issue was pretty good...

when is the next freesail mag comming out?

and i agree with kook. you shoud start your own mag peto.. i am sure if you offer money to everyone who gets a story published people will send in heaps of stories and photos and all that ****..

we most defenitely need a west oz based mag . if you go any where else in australia you will see how good we have got it here . on any windy day there are hundreds of windsurfers out there .so it seems that you would have customers waiting but hang on that would be a good idea and we all know that good ideas never work out in w,a . so i guess i will just pay my $13 bucks for mag that i read once and chuck or put $13 bucks gas in me p.v ,AC/DC on me am radio and head to leno for the day

The setting sun gleaming off the water in the west is no good for pictures

Windsurfing Magazine (USA) is usually a good read. The odd lame issue too but the reviews are good value. Something like $45 subscription for 9 or 10 issues a year. Just pluck it out of your letterbox, unwrap and kill two/three hours.

You face two real challenges when doing a print mag. Getting well written stories/ good pictures and covering printing costs.

The easiest way to get good stories is to pay people but that increased your production costs. The same goes for good quality pictures. Essentially you need professionals to get a professional looking magazine. Surf Magazin and Soulsurfer in Germany do this really well but they have approx. 150.000 readers each month… compare this to around 15.000 for Freesail or Wind and Kite.

You could do it online but the production costs are not dramatically different and to recoup costs through advertising in more difficult than through a print mag.

BTW, you can work around the afternoon glare issue by shooting from a boat or better a helicopter (of course that increases your production costs). But consider how boreing it would be if every single mag has a story about WA. If you want to sell mags to a wider audience you need to have some variety in your stories… of course that again increases production costs.

Please don’t get me wrong. I am not saying it cant’ be done. Actually I believe it can. But it requires a lot of hard work and at the end of the day unless you have a secret benefactor you got to make a living with it.

Good luck if you think you can do this as a part time hobby with the help of people volunteering their time…

Why dont we just get Laurie to add another tab to the seabreeze site called Articles

Then we could submit articles and pictures to that.

Perhaps just need a couple of volunteers to moderate AND SPELL CHECK the articles prior to putting them up.

Where all here on this site now, why send us somewhere else.

If you also made the pages available as PDF's you could print them out and take them with you to read (say on the bus, on the way home).

bandwidth, would get pretty big if every man and his dog was sticking up pictures... need to do it somewhere else, if there was a print mag i would buy it, then i could read it when i am not at the computer. Would be cool if it had online stuff to.

Email me articles anytime! Don't be shy! You can even include a piccie.

Bring on the wind.