Does anyone here know what happened to the “PT Boat Forum”? I have tried to access it, but, just get an error message. The “Home” screen will still appear, but, links do not work.
Never heard of it. What’s the URL?
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Me either. I’d be interested in seeing that.
I’d also be interested in that forum. Are you sure you weren’t thinking of a SIG?
There was a lot if good PT boat information there!
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No SIG, although you may think of it as a special interest group. See link above.
Thanks for the link. That site looks very interesting as I have the Italeri PT Boat waiting for me in my stash.
OK, I just tried that URL:
As Tom mentions, the Home page loads, without error. I’m running in Chrome, since I’m on my work machine. I can try Firefox, too.
I can navigate to the Documents page via the link in the Home page’s header. I looked in the developer’s tools (right-click on the page, and choose Inspect. A slideout opens, and if you click the Console tab, you can see errors the browser catches as it works with the page) and there are some errors referring to Chrome browser extensions, but they weren’t enough to interfere with loading the Documents page.
The Forum page does fail to load successfully. A new browser tab opens for me, with the URL
https://ptboatforum.com/cgi-bin/MB2/netboard.cgi?fid=102&cid=101&fct=gotoforum
but the page doesn’t finish loading. It remains blank. Not even the page header loads. The same errors for Chrome extensions show in the dev tools. Apart from browser extensions that are loaded in my company’s instance of Chrome (1Password, Microsoft Single SignOn) I have no other extensions or ad blockers (I test software for a living, and those can interfere with my tests). Same thing happens if you click the “Forum Link” in the body of the Home page. So it could be a browser issue, but it could be an issue on PTBoat forum’s side, too.
The photo gallery page works for me, opening a new browser tab to the URL
but if I try to drill down to see the pictures using the link on that page,
http://ptboatforum.com/PhotoGallery/
the forum throws off error 404, “Not found”
The Search and Register pages also fail to load, like the Documentation page.
I would try to reach whomever runs that forum. There’s no obvious link, like a “Contact Us”, but the forum founder’s name is listed, Richard J. Washichek. I’d serch for his name and see what you can find.
The “last updated” copyright date is from 2019, though, so maybe it’s abandoned now, too.
Good luck!
A followup…
The links in the bar across the middle of the Home page work, too, except for the Search. That loads the blank page. The other links open popups and you can proceed from there.
And I ran the same tests in Firefox, with the same results.
I think the forum is dormant or abandoned, and I stand by my advice to see if you can contact Washicheck.