Welcome to Cruising Odyssey’s Advertising pages and thank you for your interest in sharing your message with our affluent, power cruising audience.

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MISSION

Cruising Odyssey is published four times a month. The newsletter serves the power cruising market and attracts an avid readership of power boat owners and buyers who are passionate about their boats and the cruising lifestyle.

 

MEDIA DISTRIBUTION

Cruising Odyssey comes out via push email to opt-in subscribers on Friday mornings four times every month. In months with five weeks we will not publish a new newsletter in the last week. We publish holiday greeting editions on New Years, July Fourth, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

All original content and advertisements for each newsletter reside on the Cruising Odyssey website, which attracts readers from across the internet via links in the newsletter and search engine optimization.

The newsletter list is cleaned weekly, so the delivery rate averages 99.4%.

 

OTHER DISTRIBUTION

Editorial articles are also published or highlighted in Flipboard, Facebook and Instagram.

 

CIRCULATION

As of November 1, 2025 Cruising Odyssey’s opt-in subscriber base is 26,300. This has doubled since 2020.

As of November 1, 2025 the Cruising Odyssey website receives 17,200 unique monthly visitors with a bounce rate of under 4% and an average of 4.6 minutes spent on the site.

 

NEWSLETTER OPEN RATE

Every newsletter is sent by email on Friday morning and earns an average open rate of 33%. The email is mailed again on the following Monday to subscribers who did not open the first mailing. The final weekly open rate is an average of 48%

 

ADVERTISING

Cruising Odyssey offers two types of advertisements:  Banners and Advertorials. Banners and tiles run on a monthly basis. Advertorials run on a weekly basis.

 

AD SPECIFICATIONS

Banners:          650 by 240 pixelsAdvertorials:   One photo at 650 by 650 pixels. Headline and up to 500 words of copy. URL links.

 

AD RATES

Banners:          $595 per monthAdvertorials:   $450 per week

Advertisers may buy direct e-blasts to Cruising Odyssey readers for $595.

All ad rates are offered with frequency discounts.

 

METRICS

The publisher provides all advertisers with regular metrics on the newsletter and website reader visits and will supply each client with the click rates for each ad.

 

CONTACT

George Day, Publisher & Editor

Email: george@bwsailing.com

Phone: 401-338-4969