Waiting for the tide
with the editor To receive the editor’s monthly email newsletter, go to our website: www.pbo.co.uk Practical is political… Readers write in to ask why they haven’t seen a thing in the magazine almost as often as they ask ‘what were you thinking publishing that?’ This month, Chris Caswell asked why the Midget 26 hasn’t had a mention since the 1990s, while in the published letters (page 12) we are firmly rebuked for ‘the temerity’ to express political leanings. Well – to answer the first complaint – good question! The Midget range sounds like a very interesting series of used yachts. And to the second: I tend to agree. Contributors often send articles containing scathing political opinions and for the most part we edit them out, or suggest ‘toning them down’. We ought to call…