Boat Magazines
For the aspiring boat owner or experienced yachtsmen, there were many boating periodicals available. These magazines reviewed new boats, offered industry news, or related stories of cruises and journeys by boat. National or regional, monthly or bimonthly, these magazines offered up the latest in travel, equipment, or techniques for servicing or improving their boats or motors.
General interest magazines featured special annual boating features including Outdoor Life (February), Field & Stream (January), Popular Mechanics (March), Mechanix Illustrated (April), and Popular Science (March).
Boats - Published monthly by Motor Boat Publications, 1953 (Vol. 50) - 1960 (Vol. 57). Rolled into Rudder magazine to be “Rudder, incorporating Boats” in November 1960.
Fisherman -
Rudder - Published in New York by the Rudder Publishing Co., 1890 (Vol. 1) - 1977 (Vol. 93). Combined with Boats to be “Rudder, incorporating Boats” for 1962 to 1963, Later (1977?) was merged with Sea, to form: Eastern Sea combined with Rudder, Western Sea combined with Rudder; Inland Sea combined with Rudder; Southern Sea combined with Rudder. Numbering continued from Sea, not Rudder.
Motor Boat - Published in New York, NY by Motor Boat Publishing Co. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 1904)- v. 50, no. 10 (Oct. 1953). Renamed and continued as Boats in 1953.
Motor Boating -
The Skipper - "East Coast Boating - Power and Sail"
Sea -
Popular Boating -
Power Boating' - Dates from the 1910's? by Penton Publishing Company of Cleveland, Ohio.
Pacific Motor Boat - Published beginning around 1908 in Seattle, later in Newport Beach, California by Sea Publications, 1952 - 1973 (Vol. 65). Renamed to be Sea: the Pacific Coast Yachting Magazine.
Boat & Equipment News-
Boat Sport - Published by H.K. Publications, Silver Springs, Maryland, issues from May 1952 (Vol. 1, No. 1) to April 1958 are known. This periodical had eight issues per year, though it may have started with less. Eventually publication became bimonthly and known as Aqua Sport (Including Boat Sport) for the June-July 1958 issue (the 40th issue).
Yachting - First published in New York, NY by Yachting Publishing Co. (Vol. 3 was in 1908); published biannually in the 1950's, then quarterly (1960's) in Los Angeles, California by CBS Magazines.
Lakeland Yachting - Known from at least 1946 to 1951.
Lakeland Boating - Published monthly in Sheboygan, Wisconsin by Lakeshore Publications. Official publication of the Inter-lake Yachting Association. From 1957 (Vol. 12) on through the 1990s. Also found as Lakeland Boating Central States.
Boating Industry - "The Business Paper of Pleasure and Commercial Boating", 1950's on up?
Marine Dealer - "The Monthly News and Merchandizing Magazine for The Boating Trade", 1950's to 1960s?
