[PUP] Idlewild did get press

[Georgs Kolesnikovs]

As some of you know, my day job is in magazines. As a journalist, one 
of my personality disorders is that I always want to set the record 
straight.

George Buehler wrote:
>And just as appalling, NO national magazine including
>Passagemaker, ever mentioned it.  Could it be that I don't spend
>thousands in ads in their rags?

Power Cruising, the other national magazine devoted to voyaging and 
cruising under power, published a lengthy report with many fine 
photographs on Ben Gray's remarkable circumnavigation.

Bob England wrote:
>His boats may not be featured in Norhavn iIlustrated (passagemaker), 
>but they are
>still out there quietly getting the job done.

I assume Bob refers to Circumnavigator, the Nordhavn magazine. In the 
last edition, a photo of Idlewild in ice in the Northwest Passage was 
published, and Ben Gray and his sons were added to the magazine's 
honor roll of circumnavigators under power.

That same honor roll appears on the Web on the Trawlers & Trawlering site:

http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com/circumnavigators/circumnavigators.html

Trawlers & Trawlering gave the Idlewild circumnavigation extensive coverage:

http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com/news/idlewildcomplete.html

Ben Gray and his sons and Idlewild, which I believe was a George 
Buehler-Ben Gray collaboration, deserved every bit of recognition for 
the incredible voyage.

Disclosure: At the time I wrote the Idlewild story for Power 
Cruising, I was the magazine's field editor. I always have been and 
still am editor of Circumnavigator.

--Georgs
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