Yachting Monthly is a monthly magazine about yachting published by Future PLC. It is edited by Theo Stocker. The magazine is headquartered in Bath.[2]
 Cover of the December 2024 issue | |
| Editor | Theo Stocker |
|---|---|
| Categories | Yachting |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 24,624 (ABC Jan - Dec 2013)[1] (print and digital editions) |
| Publisher | Future PLC |
| Founded | 1906 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | Bath |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
History
editAt its launch in 1906, from the offices of The Field, The Manchester Guardian reviewed the first issue describing it as, "a substantial and well-illustrated 80-page magazine which really contains something to read".[3][4]
From February 1918 it became the official magazine of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, and the name was changed to The Yachting Monthly and Magazine of the R.N.V.R, however the name as simplified to Yachting Monthly in 1921
Editors
editThrough its over one hundred-year history[5][6] the magazine has been edited by several people whose significance in the yachting world goes beyond being its editor. This section is not a comprehensive coverage of all editors.
Herbert Reiach
editThe founding editor, from the publication of the first edition in May 1906 until his death at sea on his yacht on 16 July 1921. Born in Edinburgh around 1873, the son of George Reiach, General Inspector of Scottish Fisheries, he went to school in Edinburgh and had worked as a Naval Architect in Leith, Liverpool and Camper and Nicholsons with his friend Charles Nicholson. He was an editor at The Field in the late 1890s[7]
Malden Heckstall-Smith
editEditor from 1921 to 1926.
Brother of Brooke Heckstall-Smith,[8] who wrote the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica entry on Yachting,[9][10] and as secretary of the Yacht Racing Association played a key role in the development of the International Rule.
With Charles Nicholson he devised the 5.5metre rule in 1948.[11]
He devised the International A Class of the International Radio Sailing Associationin 1922.[12]
Maurice Griffiths
editEditor from 1926 to 1939 and from 1945 to 1967.
Kathleen Palmer
editEditor from 1939 to 1945 while Maurice Griffiths was serving in the RNVR.
Des Sleightholme
editEditor from 1967 to 1985
He had worked at Yachts and Yachting for 12 years before moving to Yachting Monthly in 1966, becoming editor 6 months later[13]
Andrew Bray
editEditor from 1985 to 1992
Geoff Pack
editEditor from 1992 to 1997
He had contributed many freelance articles to Yachting Monthly, while working as a Charter Skipper before taking up his editing role.[14]
James Jermain
editEditor from 1997 to 1999
Sarah Norbury
editEditor from 1999 to 2003
Paul Gelder
editEditor from 2003 to 2012
Noted for spearheading the campaign to restore Gipsy Moth IV
Kieran Flatt
editEditor from 2012[15] to 2017
Theo Stocker
editThe editor from 2017[16]
References
edit- ^ "ABC Certificates and Reports: Yachting Monthly". Audit Bureau of Circulations. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- ^ "Yachting and boating magazines". Magforum. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
- ^ "The 'Yachting Monthly'". The Manchester Guardian. 12 May 1906. p. 9. Archived from the original on 5 August 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- ^ "The Top Yachting Destinations in Spain". 16 March 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
- ^ "A brief history of Yachting Monthly". Yachting Monthly. 1 May 2006. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ "The Yachting Monthly: May, 1906–The Present". Small Craft.
- ^ "Herbert L. Reiach (M.I.N.A.), 1873–July 1921". Small Craft. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ – via Wikisource.
- ^ Heckstall-Smith, Brooke (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). pp. 890–897.
- ^ "Royal Ocean Racing Club 1925 - 2012". Royal Ocean Racing Club. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ "Landmark New Book of the International 5.5 Metre Planned". 5.5Class.org. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ "IRSA A Class". International Radio Sailing Association. 30 December 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ "Des Sleightholme". The Telegraph. 17 June 2003. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ Jermain, James (8 June 1997). "Geoff Pack". Independent. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ "Kieran Flatt joins Yachting Monthly". Boating Business - Mercator Media. 23 February 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- ^ "Theo Stocker". Yachting Monthly. Retrieved 27 August 2022.