interesting take on board tests

I'm shopping for a new board, and reading any review I can get my hands on. I found this interesting and probably as True as it gets:

A perfectly humorous anectdote to an otherwise passionate issue. The board and the rider have to spend some time together before a 'relationship' can be defined.

Interesting read, the points make some sense.

...but ya gotta start somewhere, and how many of us are able to try every board/sail/mast that might meet our particular need or style? Mag testing is useful to me, at least as a starting point.

About the only things I value higher than a good mag review is the advice of a dealer or experienced sailor that I know and trust, or the consensus of a (hopefully) unbiased peer group, like rec.windsurfing.

So. where's the problem with mag reviews... is it with manipulative manufacturers or spineless publishers? Or is this article just AW's way of trying for the moral high ground in light of their current policy towards

Okay, I'll check it out. I'm a pretty good searcher, but you've beaten me twice now.

Well... I was saying 'gosh dernit' and 'fudge', so it wasn't full-on (full on is 'dang'.

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Jeezz WARDOG you could have let them down slowly, now all the tech types will be hangin themselves in the street.

<<Whoa, oh mercy mercy me Things aint what they used to be oh no Where did all the blue skies go? Poison is the wind that blows From the north and south and east Oh mercy mercy me Things aint what they used to be no no *Oil wasted on the oceans and upon our seas* *Fish full of mercury* Oh, mercy mercy me Oh Things ain't what they used to be oh no Radiation underground and in the sky Animals and birds who live nearby all die Oh mercy mercy me Things ain't what they used to be What about this overcrowded land How much more abuse from man can she stand?>>

See what ya started WARDOG.