Comments on: Our 10th Anniversary and a Change of Watch https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/our-10th-anniversary-and-a-change-of-watch/ Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:15:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Martin Suthers https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/our-10th-anniversary-and-a-change-of-watch/#comment-157023 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:15:22 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=189316#comment-157023 Dear Chris,
I cannot let your Ten Year anniversary and departure as editor of Small Boats pass unremarked.This is a bit late, but it takes time for information to filter to Australia!
You are largely responsible for my current fascination for all things Wooden Boat – and I am deeply grateful.I have always enjoyed your articles, for their style and thoughtful content; and the evident joy that you take from the boat and situation that you are experiencing.
Your editorial has always been a great opening to each new edition. My favourite was A Rainy Sunday Afternoon from June 2024. In a brief, well written page, you said all that needed to be said in appreciation for the world of wooden boats.
I wish you well in the next phase of Life. Your 71 plays my 73…I’ve decided that one’s 70s are a great stage of life. Let’s just enjoy it.
Warmest Best Wishes
Martin Suthers
Sydney, Australia

]]> By: Ben Bryant https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/our-10th-anniversary-and-a-change-of-watch/#comment-140946 Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:35:25 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=189316#comment-140946 Hard to imagine you not at the helm here Chris. For decades Sea Kayaker and Small Boats Monthly have provided inspiration and helpful information for countless kayak trips, and eventually the build of a skin-on-frame Whitehall.
Your writing and magazine material has always shown what can result from disciplined passion.
Your commitment to excellence in craftsmanship, writing, and pursuit of what comes from “messing around in boats” regularly results in extraordinary sentences recreating extraordinary moments on the water.
More please!

]]> By: Christopher Cunningham https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/our-10th-anniversary-and-a-change-of-watch/#comment-138451 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:53:28 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=189316#comment-138451 Thanks, everyone, for the kind words. They are greatly appreciated.
Chris
Small Boats Editor at Large

]]> By: Steve Cormack https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/our-10th-anniversary-and-a-change-of-watch/#comment-136613 Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:35:37 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=189316#comment-136613 In reply to Christopher Cunningham.

Best wishes to you Chris. I hope that you enjoy your time away from the working world. It was always a pleasure to work with you and give something back to the WB community that we all so enjoy. Cheers mate

]]> By: Rick Wright https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/our-10th-anniversary-and-a-change-of-watch/#comment-136296 Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:23:43 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=189316#comment-136296 Best wishes for a well-deserved retirement. I’ve been following your work since you took on editing Sea Kayaker in 1989. As a middle school teacher, I built two skin-on-frame West Greenland kayaks with twenty middle schoolers, parents, grandparents, etc. with your book in one hand and tools in the other. I’m still in touch with some of them and their parents who remember it as a highlight of their school years. After fourteen years on a 35-foot wood ketch on Lake Superior, I’ve upgraded to an Oughtred designed Arctic Tern as my semi-retirement boat. Again, I’m indebted to you for a wealth of information gleaned from Small Boats Monthly. Thanks for many years of enjoyable, informative articles. I’m sure we’ll see more as you move into this next adventure.

]]> By: Bill Smeaton https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/our-10th-anniversary-and-a-change-of-watch/#comment-136242 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:06:17 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=189316#comment-136242 Thank you Chris for the many years of dedication to this fine publication. It was a pleasure to know you, work with you, and read so many of your wonderful tales.
All the best,
Bill

]]> By: REX & KATHIE Payne https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/our-10th-anniversary-and-a-change-of-watch/#comment-136231 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:21:45 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=189316#comment-136231 Chris, I was skeptical about the Small Boats digital edition when it first came out thinking there would be too few articles and too high of a price. You proved me wrong, it is an excellent source of small-boat information. Your articles have been my favorites, well done.
Thank you.
Rex

]]> By: Max Wojcik https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/our-10th-anniversary-and-a-change-of-watch/#comment-136230 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:06:41 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=189316#comment-136230 Welcome up Jenny. Even if I’ll miss the outgoing personality, I’m looking forward to experiencing the new.

]]> By: Max Wojcik https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/our-10th-anniversary-and-a-change-of-watch/#comment-136223 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:37:59 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=189316#comment-136223 Aw man! I knew this was coming, soon probably. Your education and experience is so deep and broad, amount of influence in boating so wide and lengthy, I figured you had to be getting old.
Didn’t seem to be lacking in energy. Filling a magazine with fantastic tips and hacks, building/using boats, showing them in use like you’ve got a documentary crew following along, and writing about it all simply and clearly, sometimes poetically. I’ve been in awe of you for as long as I’ve subscribed.
Particularly because despite a high reputation in a field often noted for sectarian arrogance, you have been extraordinarily personally attentive to this struggling over-eager newbie: supportive of ideas, teacher of new avenues, encourager of goals, and empathizer of unrelated issues.
I will really miss you.
Well, you aren’t going totally away. You say and I know, you’ll be popping in here and there, sharing ideas you’ve come up with while out on the water, posting beautiful and unusual photos of the excursions. You’ll keep doing it because you can’t help it. You couldn’t have such an impact on boaters if it wasn’t who you are.
Enjoy your extended recurring vacation. You’ve earned it Chris. You put a lot into your life, and you handed it back to a lot of people. Thank you.

]]> By: Hank Landau https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/our-10th-anniversary-and-a-change-of-watch/#comment-136220 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:48:28 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=189316#comment-136220 Thank you Chris for all the great articles in Small Boats and Sea Kayaker and for helping me learn how to write.

Hank Landau

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