Somebody who was writing cover captions for Charlton’s romance comics circa 1972 had a pretty distinctive voice.

As @lisagidley pointed out, even if this were specifically a boating magazine, that first sentence would not be much of a hook.

Same year, same letterer, obviously same person writing cover copy:

It's possible that English was not the copywriter's first language. (This cover is also, generally, Quite Something.)

Whole lot of emotional states in one thought balloon right here.

Likewise, the copywriter couldn't decide between the four different possible reactions Audrey was having here (p.s.: you go, Audrey, let's eat fudge & snuggle while we read some cool history books)