Flicka Friends is a newsletter written for the people who own, crew aboard or are interested in the Flicka, a 20 foot sailing vessel designed by Bruce P. Bingham.
Flicka Friends is published on a quarterly basis, with issues being mailed in March, June, September and December. Articles, letters, comments and photos relating to the Flicka are welcomed and encouraged.
With the publication of the Spring 2008 issue of Flicka Friends, there have been 44 newsletters published totaling 537 pages containing 189 articles and 858 images.
FLICKA FRIENDS -- First Editor -- 1995 to 1998
First published in 1995 by Dennis Pratt. He was the editor and publisher for Flicka Friends until Summer of 1998
FLICKA FRIENDS -- Second Editor -- 1998 to 2008
During 1998, Dennis Pratt asked Tom Davison to take over the publication of the newsletter. He was the editor from 1998 until the Spring 2008 issue. During this time, the following changes were made:
CHANGE FROM PAPER TO INTERNET
The biggest change to the newsletter happened in 2001. Instead of gathering articles and photos to generate a final copy and then having the newsletter photocopies for mailing., the newsletter was created in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format or PDF. This allowed a number of things to happen and possibly the best was that the issue was now in full color. This was clearly much better than a photocopy and could be sent on the internet. This also saves the time spent collating, folding, labeling and stamping each newsletter. Best of all, more of my time could be spent working on the newsletter.
FREE NEWSLETTER
The best part about going to the internet was the elimination of printing and mailing costs. Instead of $10.00 per year, Flicka Friends is now free. Even better is the simple fact that the newsletter is in full color, something not possible before changing to Adobe Acrobat.
ADOBE ACROBAT
Since the Flicka Friends newsletters that you download are in PDF format, you need to download (free) Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Internet. You can reach the web page for downloading Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on the yellow "Get Acrobat" icon located in this page.
FLICKA FRIENDS -- Third Editor --2008
Daryl Clark will be the editor of Flicka Friends. He proof read the Spring 2008 issue of Flicka Friends and will be publishing the Flicka Friends Summer 2008 issue. If you would like to forward a photo or article for the newsletter, you can contact him at:
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