Geart Job on the website Sean. I haven't had much opportunity to get out in my M-17, the old "Pony Engine" but as yet un-named, so I'm looking forward to Feb when I can sail for a week with like minded souls. Keep up the good work and I look forward to meeting you in Feb. ;-) - Ed On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:57 PM, M23 "Daunltess" <nebwest2@aol.com> wrote:

If you have recently (last 2 weeks) tried to access the web site for the Havasu Pocket Cruisers Convention, you may have had difficulty. The web site has been hosted for years now on Piczo.com which is where the original Montgomery Owners Photo Site lived before Bill moved it. That hosting service worked fine for us until a few weeks ago when suddenly there have been tons of issues and absolutely no ability to contact the company for support. Needless to say this was a minor disaster as the preparation for the event is in full swing with 83 boats already registered and the site being updated almost daily with new information.

The Piczo site was made for someone with no experience at all in websites. It was very user friendly and required no software on your computer as it was all done "online". That part was great, although it made the site very limited in its capabilities. Nonetheless, it worked for the past 4 years for not only my own personal sailing site, but for acting as a website for each progressive event. Well, all that came to a crashing halt! Bummer!

So...over the last two weeks I have scrambled to educate myself in the ways of "real" websites, although I still don't do HTML stuff. A new domain name was purchased (www.Sailhavasu.com <http://www.sailhavasu.com/>) and new web host (Godaddy.com) obtained. After two solid weeks of transferring information and learning how to build and upload the new site to the web, it went "live" today. Some of the links are still under construction, but overall the site is up and seems to be working well. I apologize to those that were having trouble with the old site...believe me I have enough to do right now without taking two weeks to get this worked out, but in the long run, it's all good. We will have a much more stable, and capable site with customer support available 24/7/365 from a big player in the web site business. Hopefully, no more issues.

As for the Havasumontgomerys.piczo.com<http://havasumontgomerys.piczo.com/>site...Well, it's still up.However, I have no ability to upload images, the hit counters are frozen, and from day to day you may get it or you may get an error message that says "404 server not found". I am guessing that Piczo may be about to go belly up. After two weeks of trying to contact them I have gotten no repsonse. After seeing how much work it was to transfer everything from the Convention website over to the new website.....I just don't have the time to do that for all my personal stuff related to Dauntless, her restoration, trips, projects, etc. It may live there forever, it may be gone tomorrow. Who knows. Yes, it is way frustrating to me, but oh well, what are ya gonna do?. I'm pretty much planning on just abandoning it and leaving it be. It will be there till ......well, it's not....But unless Piczo pulls it together and fixes their site there will be nothing new on there anymore. Thanks to everyone for all the support of that site while it lasted.

As for the Convention...a plea has been thrown down by one of the Potter guys to his compadres to get more Potters than Montgomerys here the February event. That just got posted on the event's message board within the last day or so. Sounds like a challenge to me!

Any takers???!!!

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