Yachting Magazines—Past and Present 
Concluded from page 3S5. 
Realizing the growth of the motor boat end 
of the business, the Rudder Publishing Co., on 
March 18, 1905, started a new sheet called the 
Power Boat News, with A. E. Potter as editor. 
The first few numbers were only one large single 
sheet, like a newspaper; then it became a folded 
sheet, and eventually it developed into a yellow- 
covered pamphlet with black printed title and a 
new picture each week on the cover, the style 
now popular with many magazines. It ran 
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nearly two years with changing editors, until 
Oct. 27, 1906, when it was discontinued. 
Chicago and Cleveland each were represented 
in 1905 by new monthly magazines, Fore’n’Aft 
and Boating. 
Fore’n’Aft was, as its name implies, a sailboat 
man’s paper, published by the Home Life Pub- 
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lishing Co., with Wadsworth Warren as editor. 
The first number, published in June, had its 
cover illuminated with a photograph, and the 
title printed on white paper with brown ink, 
9J4 by 11 ji inches in size. There were thirty-six 
pages of reading profusely illustrated, and in its 
two and a half years’ existence gave its 
readers some very entertaining reading, causing 
considerable disappointment to many, when in 
November, 1907, it was sold out to it rival, 
Boating, that started in Cleveland three months 
after Fore’n’Aft started at Chicago. 
The first number of Boating appeared in 
September, 1905, with forty-eight pages of read¬ 
ing. Its cover, 9 by 11 inches, was a light green 
tint, with the name in red above a half-tone cut 
of the sloop Manchester on it. The Penton 
Publishing Co. were behind Boating, with Mr. 
R. E. Powers as editor, and they ran a little 
more conservatively than their rival, but won 
out in the end, although in the latter part of 
1907 they made a radical change, going in for 
the power boat end of the sport, and even 
changed their name to Power Boating, under 
which title it is still running. Fore’n’Aft was 
a 25-cent paper; $2 a year. Boating, 10 cents; 
$1 a year. 
January 20, 1906, another 10-cent weekly 
yachting magazine, 9H by 13 inches, called The 
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American Yachtsman, and edited by Chas P. 
Tower, appeared upon the news stands, and 
yachtsmen dug down into their jeans after the 
shekels; $3 a year. This was a \yeekly paper 
that found life too strenuous for it, and after 
thirty numbers were published, it dropped out 
of sight. 
The year 1907 saw with its first month, January, 
the beginning of a yachting magazine that sur¬ 
passed any of its predecessors for grandeur. 
The covers, ioj 4 by 13 inches, were works of 
art, and a most costly interior, almost solid full 
of expensive half-tone plates, many of them 
full-page size, greeted the yachting public. 
Yachting, as this magazine is called, is edited by 
Lawrence Perry, and has just started on its 
second year’s cruise. It is a 25-cent magazine; 
$3 a year. 
In March, 1907, I was passing a news stand, 
when the words “The Ocean,” in large green 
letters on a buff-colored cover of a monthly 
magazine caught my eye. In a large, red circle 
in script were the words “Something new.” It 
was only 10 cents, so I bought it and was agree¬ 
ably surprised to find 192 pages of old and for- 
