DIY Boat Owner magazine which many On Board readers will be familiar with has been sold to Madmariner.com the on line boating resource site. The magazine was originally started by Jan Mundy and her husband Steve Kalman in 1995 before being sold to Boat US in 2006 who in turn have sold it to Glen Justice the owner of Mad Mariner.
As before DIY Boat Owner will continue to be published quarterly although at the time of writing this I am unsure as to whether Jan Mundy is to stay on as editor. The first issue to be published by the new owners will be available next month and it will be interesting to see what sort of changes if any will be incorporated.
The magazine is currently available through subscription and in some West marine stores.
Have a three year subscription for DIY Boat Owner magazine. Ever since Mad Mariner purchased the magazine I have yet to get an issue, the last one I recieved was issue #2 2010. What gives?
Posted by: Marshall Pratt | December 12, 2011 at 03:32 PM
That's an interesting point. Mad Mariner seems to have ceased operations; originally the web site was closed down for what they said was a 'temporary technical reason' but it appears that this has since become permanant. Although I have no hard proof I think that the whole Mad Mariner empire has gone belly up. It may well have been a case of Glen Justice the owner tryiong to do too much too quickly. I wrote to him a couple of times in the past about a few ideas and I never heard back from him so not sure what you can do about the magazine subs, it's a shame though as the magazine was a good one I thought.
Posted by: Mark | December 12, 2011 at 04:29 PM
Does anyone know where I can get the back issues of DIY on CD or ??
thanks
rayandannw@yahoo.com
Posted by: Ray | January 18, 2012 at 09:10 PM
It seems that Glen Justice who was running mad mariner and DIY has vanished without trace. There are a lot of folks who paid subscriptions only to loose their money it seems.
Posted by: Mark | January 22, 2012 at 08:04 PM