Messing About in Boats magazine fundraiser

[Nick Bletsch]

Hi Everyone,

 

Bob Hicks, the editor of Messing About in Boats magazine (or MAIB for short, no relation to this forum), has generously decided to make MAIB available online, free of charge. If you're not familiar with MAIB, it was a long running magazine that shut down in 2022 after nearly 40 years in business. There's an amazing wealth of information in the back issues, including a long running column by Phil Bolger, as well as articles from people like Jim Michalak, Joe Dobler, Chuck Leinweber and Dave Carnell.

 

There are approximately 750 back issues, 500 of which need to be digitized. Chuck Leinweber of Duckworks has started a GoFundMe to cover the digitization costs. Once everything is online the issues will be able to be viewed and downloaded for free from the Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum (https://archive.org/details/pemphillips) as well as the Internet Archive and the Open Library. Additionally, anyone searching WorldCat (the world's largest bibliographic database) will be able to locate the online copies.

 

If you would like to help with this wonderful project, please visit the GoFundMe page and make a donation.

 

https://gofund.me/f73c97f9

 

Thanks for your help!

Nick

[Jonathan M. Cohn]

This link to the new archive was posted on the Facebook Texas 200 today:

 

https://archive.org/details/messingaboutinboats

 

Well done everyone involved.