Who to contact and how to submit to the Gaff Rig.

    Paul J Heyse pheyse@techline.com
     Managing editor, email ideas for articles or comments about the Gaff Rig. Plus email if others can not open your email attachments and for scanning of photographs and formatting.

    Frank Hagan fhagan@vcnet.com
     Staff Writer, covers Shop Safety and Builders Tales. Email him your stories for Builders Tales.

    Ron Huff R.E.Huff@att.net
     Staff Writer, covers Launchings. Email him your stories and photos when you launch your boat.

    Bruce S. Kershaw karebru@worldnet.att.net
     Staff Writer, covers Builder Profiles and Book Reviews. Email him your book reviews.

    Rick Winn winnco@flash.net
     Staff Writer, covers BYYB Profiles and general articles.

    Adam Plourde adamplourde@yahoo.com
     Staff Writer, covers Regattas. Email him your infromation about any fleet activity.

    Kevin Green kevingreen@airmail.net
     Publisher and Staff Writer, covers BYYB news.

    How to submit to us your stories and photos.
     We do our text writing in Microsoft Word, if you do not have Word but have Microsoft Works you can submit to the editor those documents if the staff writer can not open your document. Email all documents as an email attachment. Do not embed photo's into Word documents. If you wish to tell us where you wish a photo to appear place this in the text of the document <insert jpg boat1 here> and high lite this in red. Use font style "Arial" font size "10" in writing your text document. Please check your spelling and grammer before sending your story. We will format this document for use in HTML. Do not send HTML documents to us as we will not use them.
     To submit photos to us for use in the Gaff Rig we accept and use only two formats. Email these as an attachment. The best format is .jpg or .jpeg files. Second is .gif files. Keep the size of the photo in either format to less than 450 pixels in width. We ask this to keep file sizes down and we we only publish photos that we resize to less than 300 pixels on the Gaff Rig. We will crop and resize the photos as we feel the need. Please try to send good quality photos to us only. Title your photos with your last name [in lower case] and a number such as [ hagan2 ] this will allow us to keep track of the hundreds of photo's and graphics we will have on file.
     A few tips on taking pictures of your boat. Try not to have a busy background setting when taking a photo. We know this may be difficult when it is in the shop, we don't publish photo's of boats under construction unless they are used as examples in an article. When outside and taking photos of your boat have the sun behind you for better lighting. Use film speeds of less than 200. Try not to have other boats in the background, also try not to have telephone poles or hanging wires there either. Also trees, these will difuse the look of the photo and any rigging you have up. Try to photo your boat in the water both sailing and at the dock. Try to keep the boat in the center of the photo and as large as possible.
    We hope this info will help you prepare stories or articles for our use in the Gaff Rig.

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