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jimh posted 12-27-2013 09:02 AM ET (US)   Profile for jimh   Send Email to jimh  
In the next days and weeks, as we cross into a new year, I plan to make some changes to CONTINUOUSWAVE's forum areas. The changes will be coming slowly. I will give updates on them in this thread.

The first change is that the discussion area called CETACEA COMMENTS has been closed. This discussion area was dedicated to discussing pages in the CETACEA collection. The CETACEA collection has not been growing much lately. The most recent page was added quite a long time ago, in 2006.

It was always a goal for me to reach 100 pages in CETACEA, but, for the moment, the 82 pages of CETACEA will have to stand as the amount done to date. When the first page of CETACEA appeared in February, 2000 the internet was quite a different place, and digital photography, hosting of pictures, and adding pictures to web content were quite new to most. It was difficult for most people to share their digital images with others. Now it is quite easy for boaters to share images of their boats with others, and part of what made CETACEA interesting has been made commonplace.

Another reason for the decline in production of CETACEA pages over the years was the amount of time and work it took to produce each one. I don't know what happened, but it became an almost impossible chore for me to create a new CETACEA page on a regular basis.

Accordingly, with no new content, there did not seem to be an urgent need to keep the CETACEA COMMENTS forum active. All of the earlier comments are still there and can be accessed from the CETACEA pages associated with them. But a daily listing of CETACEA COMMENTS in the forum index will no longer appear.

There has been no content lost. This is a long-term goal of mine, that no useful boating content is to be lost or thrown away. All the CETACEA pages and comments about them are preserved, and will be preserved. The only change is that particular forum no longer appears in the index listing.

jimh posted 12-27-2013 03:07 PM ET (US)     Profile for jimh  Send Email to jimh     
The separate forum for discussion of a subset of Boston Whaler boats, what we have called the POST-CLASSIC forum has also been shut down. I have moved the last month or so of articles from that forum into the appropriate other forums.

The POST-CLASSIC forum was begun many years ago as an attempt to stop a relentless bickering that would be initiated by a small cadre of fans about the classic hulls at almost any time anyone asked a question about a Boston Whaler boat made after about 1990. There was, and perhaps still is, a school of thought that any Boston Whaler that was not designed in Massachusetts by old Whaler hands should not be on the same ocean with the older boats, but I think that view is very old school and anachronistic. Today, the boats from the 1990's are over 20-years old, and their designs are beginning to look darn classic themselves.

On that basis, rather than maintain the POST-CLASSIC discussion as an isolated forum, let's just discuss these newer (and newest) Boston Whaler boats with all the others.

All the earlier postings in the POST-CLASSIC forum are still there. They can be found in searching. Again, the goal is to preserve all the information content. But going forward, there will be not be a separate forum just for post-1990 Boston Whaler boats. For some historical perspective, you can read the first post from the POST-CLASSIC or NEO-CLASSIC forum here, posted over 13 years ago.

wezie posted 12-28-2013 10:40 AM ET (US)     Profile for wezie  Send Email to wezie     
Jim,
I hope you and yours had a Merry Christmas and soon have a Happy New Year.

Thank You for all the joy you have provided over the years operating this site. Allowing us to communicate or even shout at one another, brings us all closer.

We are most fortunate to have You!

Very Sincerely,
John Saunders

sosmerc posted 12-28-2013 02:10 PM ET (US)     Profile for sosmerc  Send Email to sosmerc     
Happy New Year !..........thanks for all the good work. Always a pleasure visiting this website.
Mambo Minnow posted 12-28-2013 08:53 PM ET (US)     Profile for Mambo Minnow  Send Email to Mambo Minnow     
Happy Holidays JimH. I welcome the closing of the Post Classic forum, as some participants comment on other sites incorrectly that your website is for classics only. I own one of each, and both boats have there advantages/disadvantages. However both are most assuredly Whalers.
jimp posted 12-28-2013 08:56 PM ET (US)     Profile for jimp  Send Email to jimp     
JimH -

Sad to see Cetacea go, but it has been a while. Your comments are correct with folks being able to post pictures in Photobucket and the like. I always looked forward to those stories, adventures, and pictures.

I hope you'll continue your "Trailer Boat Tales In Our Boston Whalers" with your Revenge 22 - Walk-through with Whaler Drive, CONTINUOUSWAVE. Those narratives are always great to read. Totally different boating than I do here.

Happy New Year to you and Chris.

JimP

dgoodhue posted 12-29-2013 10:54 AM ET (US)     Profile for dgoodhue  Send Email to dgoodhue     
A suggestion for forum changes would be adding an edit button.
jimh posted 12-29-2013 10:59 AM ET (US)     Profile for jimh  Send Email to jimh     
There will be a rather large change--a sea change--in the forum, coming soon. It will be completely revamped and will have many new features. I am working on it in earnest.

Jimp--I try to fully document at least one of our big trips each year with logs, pictures, data, and narrative. We had four great trips this year, and I hope to get going on a long narrative of one of them. It will probably be the late-summer trip to Isle Royale in Lake Superior. There are about one thousand images from that trip, so it is a rich resource for a good photo-essay and narrative. And not too many small-boat boaters take their boats across Lake Superior, so I think it is a bit of an unusual adventure. Stay tuned to SAIL LOGS for more updates.

deepwater posted 01-03-2014 01:28 AM ET (US)     Profile for deepwater  Send Email to deepwater     
jimh,,your site has always been the best and you keep making it better,,i don't make it in here very often as things have changed for me but I still like to see whats happening
alfa posted 01-03-2014 02:32 AM ET (US)     Profile for alfa  Send Email to alfa     
Hi Jimh,

Happy new year !
We look forward for the new features.

Buckda posted 01-04-2014 06:11 PM ET (US)     Profile for Buckda  Send Email to Buckda     
MAN Jim - you're such a tease! You posted this a week ago! It's snowing like crazy in Michigan and you're about to get a few snow days courtesy of Old Man Winter...get crackin'!

:)

Looking forward to see the renovations.

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