Yachting Mag Reviews

by NativeTexn'

I've purchased several magazines from Bonnier (the company behind Yachting and many other magazines) through newsstand. I've had several very frustrating issues with more than one publication, all to do with downloading the magazines to my iPad. When I've called for help, I get the run-around from all parties involved. When I call Bonnier, they tell me that Zinio handles their digital subscriptions, and that I must call them for help. When I call Zinio, they tell me that they don't support the newsstand app, and that I must call Apple for support. I can't call apple because my iPad is past it's AppleCare support time, so I email them, and they tell me that I need to call Bonnier for support. It's like a hot potato that no one wants to hold. Meanwhile, I have paid for a subscription to Yachting that I cannot access. YachtingMag says that I am subscribed to the magazine, but every issue shows up as me having to pay $4.99 to download it. My suggestion is to stay away from Bonnier magazines, at least until they get the bugs worked out.

by Pbrown061

App never opens. Crashing each time.
Delete YachtingMag , re-download YachtingMag then re-download every paid edition. Works ok that one time.
Once I close and re-open YachtingMag it crashes again, this is for every version they have produced. It shouldn't be this difficult to engineer an app that works. I have plenty of space so that isn't an issue. Reboot does not help either.
And zero tech support. It is their app they should not run you around. They have no problem automatically billing you each year but can't be there to support you.
Don't waste your money on any of their crap

by Larsen44

If your lucky enough to log in it’s not bad. But what is odd is that YachtingMag is made for an iPhone but you can only view the photos in portrait mode. The photos of the boats only show half the boat unless you drag the photo around to view it. Not really something I want to look at the whole boat.

by Eye Fold

This will not open on my 6 plus. It does however open on a iPad Air 2. So this is not an IOS 8 issue. Also, it would or should work in landscape view. As long as you keep it like that, the paper version is better. Would be nice to see two pages together.

by S4Liberty

It seems YachtingMag has stopped working. When you try to download a new issue it says "Error - Unable to connect to server". This has been happening for the past week now.

by Keithkleinmd

Magazine repeatedly crashes making it impossible to read. Not as stable as most of the other iPad magazines. Finally gave up and deleted YachtingMag .

by Whoone

I get a subscription and I am not pleased that I have to pay for digital copy. I get my other subscriptions as digital and hard copy.

by Shawming

It still terrible after a useless update, didn't optimized for iPhone 5 as its said.

by Dontkare

Created acct. logged out. Logged back in. Tried to build library. Entered a mobius loop. Gave up.

by Jfibla

To download monthly magazine isa monthly nightmare

by Mathura2000

2 Issues :-
1) Your print susbscription does not get you access to the digitial content, which is just silly. Thus have to cancel one subscription and start another, assuming you have no need for the print once its on your iPad
2) Its taken over 5 mins to download and go through the "creating pages" process?? for the Sept issue on a high speed cable wireless connection. The economist is ready to read in about 8 sec thus no idea why this is painfully slow. Please fix.

Apart from that works great and looking forward to more boating mags migrating to iPad.