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As an avid sailor and owner of an E35 Ericson, This is the absolute worst and most complicated subscription ever. Extremely difficult to navigate if not impossible to open a Current issue as a subscriber. Please refund the balance of my subscription.
Larry,
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What does it always ask me if I want to be sent special emails?!? Please stop this – it is almost impossible to navigate the site without these annoying pop ups!!
I agree with both of the above complaints! I hope you didn’t pay for the website design! Find another provider and get them to design a site that’s workable for your members/customers!
Alfred – Managing longtime print subscribers who order through the mail and are now visiting the site for the first time, new digital subscribers who purchased on the site and free eletter readers who have not purchased anything is a multi-dimensional challenge. Multiple databases, many levels of user experience and different levels of expectations from you all but one site and one product. We continue to work on the site and improve it.
Your subscription is active and your web access is set up. You simply need to log in to access the subscriber-only content. If you are having difficulty logging in, you should reset your password.
Thank you for your comments.
— Practical Sailor
P.S.- if you really want to see what it is like, set up memberships for all of your staff (including managing editor), only access the finished issue via their “membership”, receive almost daily advertisements to buy another e-book series, and constantly fight the “free emails” popups. Then you will understand!
I am a subscriber. Why can’t I access the online version?
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Let me know when you have a subscription discount. Just bought an old catamaran and will be buying some nav. equipt. This is my first multi-hull.
Digital subscriptions are priced at less than $3 per issue. I guarantee you the information you find in one issue will save you the cost of a full subscription as you upgrade your catamaran! Give us a try.
Monthly Issues of Practical Sailor should be sent to all paid up subscribers for instant downloading
If you are a paid subscriber and have a online account and are logged in, when you click on the current issue or access via the email announcement, the issue will “instantly” appear.
i am not familiar with Practical Sailor but really like the idea of a publication devoted, exclusively, to sail. I wish to subscribe but to be honest, if the focus is mostly on boats over 30 feet I would not be interested. My boat, a recently purchased 1988 O’Day 240, is my entry back into sailing after a 20+ year hiatus. I stopped watching “This Old House” when they began only working on projects over $1,000,000. Does Practical Sailor have a fairly even split between larger boats and smaller/trailerable boats?
I’m Drew Frye, I write a good portion of the content, and my current boat is 24 feet and trailerable. I love writing for smaller boats, so just send in the questions. My last boat was a larger cruising cat with a lot of systems, so I have a good feel for that as well.
Hopeless web site.
Are you a magazine or a bookshop?
Sick of the constant up selling of books.
I just want the magazine.
Mark,
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I agree with most of the above, very difficult to navigate website, download issues etc. Even logged in it wont let me and does not seem to want me to activate online. Very cumbersome, and all I get is tons of emails trying to sell over priced articles on various boat maintenance issues. So far a total waste of money.
I do most of my reading on an iphone. Your popups are too largesnd cover too much of the page. Im a paid subsriber please dont flood my experiance with commercial trass
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I am a Canadian that has been trying to subscribe for awhile. I am not sure if l have been successful. If l have a membership please let me know. If not l will try again.
If possible please call 7059872272
Marty Miceli
I have already subscribed
48North online mag has a nice faux magazine feel you might appreciate a comparison.