So you're planning a beach vacation this summer and you're hoping to find a spot so sweet that the stories you swap with co-workers will make you a rock star and leave everyone in a jealous sweat. Big deal, so is everyone — even that guy in accounting.
The problem is the folks at Surfing magazine have had a better week, a better summer and a better life. You'll probably never get to surf Mozambique or Western Australia, but for $5.99 the nearly 50-year-old title from Ten: The Enthusiast Network (the recently re-branded Source Interlink Media), edited by Taylor Paul for the past four years, will provide you some of the best summer non-fiction writing out there. Sure, the average age of readers of the title is 21 — and any chance of a surfer lifestyle has probably long passed you by — but if you want to catch the spirit of sand, surf and adventure, Surfing might just be the sweetest spot this summer.
The July/August issue of Bonnier Corp.'s Boating magazine has an eight-page feature on docking a boat. While we first thought it was a tremendous waste of time and effort, after we read about the exploits of Jill Zarin and other wealthy, amateur boat-niks in the Hamptons — how they use Sea-Tow rescuers as a sort of a basic training course — we then reassessed our thinking. However, while "Docking 1-2-3" may be helpful to some, the title will help get you into the spirit of summer just about as well as reading the blueprints for Yankee Stadium will turn you into a baseball fan. Stories on sump pumps, fuel bladders and such make for a dry read. For a great summer afternoon filled with boats and tales of adventure at sea, head to a marina and gawk at the yachts and talk with boat owners — and leave this insiders' how-to guide at the newsstand.
Some folks who have a spare $500,000 will use it to buy a second home or for a down payment on a Manhattan condo. Others look for a gently used 30-foot yacht — and those are the folks who troll Power & Motor-yacht magazine, the 100,000-circulation monthly from Active Interest Media, the Connecticut-based publisher headed by Efrem Zimbalist III (yes, the son of the New York actor who died in May and the sister of actress Stephanie). The title is a must-read for all those heading to a swell party this summer in the Hamptons. Not only is its 120 pages filled with yacht porn, but also with stories of people who actually sail these beauties — which will make you sound smart if you rub elbows with these captains. And while we can't prove it, we're pretty sure the saying, "Size matters," started in the classified ads in this title.
While Bonnier's Boating magazine totally misses the boating lifestyle, it makes up for it with Cruising World. A 360-degree look at a nautical lifestyle, the Summer Adventure issue now on newsstands is superb, with first-person accounts of sailing along the coast of British Columbia and off Maine's North Haven Island. The title, whose readership is almost evenly split among men and women — rare among boat mags — provides excellent excursions and vacation ideas for folks who will never own a boat. Editor Mark Pillsbury produces a plain-English issue in which you can practically smell the salt air. We especially like Fred Bagley's story on Lake Superior as it provided plenty of reasons to explore the area, both from the water and on land.
The Atlantic puts John Lennon and Paul McCartney on the cover of its "ideas issue," promising to tell us all about "how genius happens." The article inside, however, does little more than strenuously assert that Lennon and McCartney were more of a team than people think once Yoko Ono had entered the picture. "Legend has it that the Beatles broke irrevocably apart," the author writes. "Except that they never really did." As proof, however, we get some wishful thinking in the form of reheated anecdotes that any Beatle freak (yes, we plead guilty) has heard a dozen times or more. "As long as John and Paul were both alive, the possibility remained that they might remarry," says the magazine. Well, it didn't happen. Let it be.
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