Fed up of yacht review quality!

[lestersails]

Originally Posted by goboatingnow

“ I almost never posted a bad review “

“I never fudge a review “

Hmmmm

The purist in me wants to scold him, but there are cardinal sins and lesser sins. As my mother told me, if you have nothing good to say, say nothing at all. If a reviewer has this approach and is open about it, the absence of a review is a negative review - that is some useful data.

On the cover of the rags if it says "First review of the new Whatever 48!!!", it sells magazines, whether the review is of any use or not. The manufacturers have them by the throat and both parties recognize that.

My wife has it right - and I don't think she has ever even opened a single sailing mag. She says I am just reading boat porn. It has as much to do with the reality of boats and boating as...
(I decided to omit the analogy)

[Say10]

When I started doing some research on potential boats I found the same thing. It seemed like every review was like the last. Pretty disappointing, they have zero credibility and despite the breathless reviews for every boat reviewed they must have readers. Who’s reading them?

[TrentePieds]

Quote: "When I started doing some research on potential boats I found the same thing. It seemed like every review was like the last."

But isn't that because every new boat on the market is like the previous one, except for details that are really quite trivial?

There are only so many possible variations on interior lay-out you can contrive in the confined space of a sailing yacht, and there are only so many variations you can entertain in regard to the hull lines and the sail plan of something that purports to be a "cruiser/racer". Not to mention a "Blue Water Boat".

The cookie-cutter school of yacht design rules :-)!

The boys in the Marketing Department beat the drum of "product differentiation" incessantly when there is, in reality, no drum to beat. And the lads in the Marketing Department certainly wouldn't want to go anywhere near a realistic evaluation of build quality, would they? And that, surely, applies a fortiori to the lads who write the reviews :-)

TP

[Tonali99]

Originally Posted by TrentePieds

Quote: "When I started doing some research on potential boats I found the same thing. It seemed like every review was like the last."

But isn't that because every new boat on the market is like the previous one, except for details that are really quite trivial?

There are only so many possible variations on interior lay-out you can contrive in the confined space of a sailing yacht, and there are only so many variations you can entertain in regard to the hull lines and the sail plan of something that purports to be a "cruiser/racer". Not to mention a "Blue Water Boat".

The cookie-cutter school of yacht design rules :-)!

The boys in the Marketing Department beat the drum of "product differentiation" incessantly when there is, in reality, no drum to beat. And the lads in the Marketing Department certainly wouldn't want to go anywhere near a realistic evaluation of build quality, would they? And that, surely, applies a fortiori to the lads who write the reviews :-)

TP

Well then, since we all seem to agree, why is this senseless banter continuing?
Might there be something else of interest in those mags?