One thing Jack Turner got right when he sat down at his kitchen table one evening in the early 1960s with two like-minded conspirators and a bottle of gin was the timing of the grand idea to start a boating newspaper.
Soundings was conceived 60 years ago, right as the marine industry transitioned from wood to fiberglass. Its success was fueled by the great boom in boatbuilding that resulted.
“It was this stroke of dumb luck that enabled us to survive in spite of ourselves,” Turner wrote in a story celebrating the magazine’s 40th birthday. “Our black ink dirtied hands, and we were commonly referred
