will the real Will Stelling please stand up

[yeatsfreak]

Thanks to a shrewd ebay purchase I am now 12 issues short of a full collection of WBs. Sweet.

Reading the "letters to the Jon Wilson" section in Vol 1 Issue 2, I saw a letter from William Stelling of NY, NY. He writes with the following concern:

"Everything you have written in your number one issue I've read before, many times (in fact) in other yachting publcations. So, then, what else will you have to write about in subsequent issues?"

He goes on to ask "How much variety can a wooden boat oriented magazine possibly present without being redundant and (eventually) boring?"

I was just curious if the good Mr Stelling was (still) with us...

Jarrett
http://june23rd.com/

[Ian McColgin]

I no longer have the first issue but I got it and read it. At the time I read most (there were fewer then) boating rags. WB got at previously underpublished stuff right from the start. Almost anything one can say has been said by someone before, but I still found Stelling's remark . . . let's be nice and just say puzzeling.

[Hwyl]

Anywho comes up with four Stelling's in New York, none of which are William. Might it have been a spoof letter? Not from Jon Wilson surely?

[yeatsfreak]

has WB ever put spoof letters in?

that'd be pretty cool.

It's been about 30 years, I'm sure Mr Stelling has moved to Florida by now.

J