Take a look at Der Spiegel or auto motor und sport . Windsurfing has far and away the highest percentage of advertising. Half your pages in Windsurfing are advertising. Actually, more, since some of the articles in all the magazines are notices of new products. The two British magazine have slightly lower percentages of advertising.
Advertising is sometimes the best part of the magazine, visually at least.
It might make more sense to acknowledge that advertising is a central feature of the magazines. American Windsurfer has the lowest percentage of ads, but one has to wonder why some of the major board manufacturers do not choose to advertise in American Windsurfer . Every windsurfing magazine should list the advertisers in each issue. Poland's windsurfing star seems to be rising. Poles took first, second, and third place at the Lake Garda Cup in May, 2000.