...Follow the money. Since the advent of the interweb how many "free" groups are still around and semi-functional? I can't imagine the database that is out there from Yahoo Group members, what it costs to store it and what it costs to keep the platform running. The profit margin must be better somewhere else. Wonder if Yahoo considered monetizing the groups directly? Wait, they did. It's bigger than that. We are commodities.
Looks like ads to me.... caused me to wonder how is SailingForums funded?
Buy, buy, buy!!Paused my ad blocker and wow! there are some interesting things that ebay thinks I need to buy....
The direction of this thread reminds me of one of my favorite episodes of the British Sitcom, "The IT Crowd" that parodies the fickleness of social media by making up 'FriendFace'. A clip of the episode is on YouTube if you want a good laugh if the weather is too bad for Sailing this afternoon....Technology is changing so quickly and it does feel like we’re just commodities being manipulated along. ...The antidote, as you recognize, is to get off the grid as much as you can. Work on a boat. Go sailing!
Finding the healthy balance is key. I have zero interest in twitter or MySpace or instagram (though I admit I’m on Facebook- friend me if you are, too)
Thank you very much!I just wanted to drop in to say that Sailing Forums isn’t going anywhere! The site is ad supported and while I don’t want anyone clicking ads just for fun, when you support our sponsors like Intensity Sails you help cover the costs to run the forum.
We do serve more ads to people who are NOT logged in FYI. This is mostly to grab a few extra pennies from people who are just swinging by from a google search but don’t plan to stick around and be a part of the community. So, staying logged in will make sure you don’t see as many ads. Google changed the way they serve ads “automatically based on screen size” and its causing the bottom ad to be way too large on many devices now. That will be resolved very soon.
Finally, we have all the PDF content from the Yahoo group saved on Dropbox and will be sharing it publicly here in the next few weeks. I’ll make a post when its live on the Sunfish Knowledge Base.
Cheers!
The Yahoo Group id mostly moved over, I am trying to get them to move over the loose photos in addition to the albums, which are moved.
All the Files and Conversations are moved.
Things will probably be quiet over there, think of it as a nice friendly Archive. There is more activity on this Forum. One nice feature it has is the ability to put a photo into the message, vs making it an attachment.
New home for Yahoo Sunfish_Sailor: SunfishSailor groups.io Group
Current state of affairs in the Carriage House, Penobscot 14 ST. JACQUES, 1982 AMF PHOENIX and 1965 Alcort WAVE. Maybe WAVE gets some fiberglass repair this week, as Florida Fall is peeking around the corner. Oh, the keel batten for the Pascagoula 16 Catboat is laying there too, it will be a while before more happens with that.
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The Yahoo Group id mostly moved over, I am trying to get them to move over the loose photos in addition to the albums, which are moved.
All the Files and Conversations are moved....
New home for Yahoo Sunfish_Sailor: SunfishSailor groups.io Group
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norcal if you don't take it on who will
Update 2000 photos moved over into Master Album. Today we also started an upgrade to the seawall, had a lil Norwester a few weeks back that scoured out some of the yard. 40 bags of river rock and pea gravel so far, 20 border stones. We are swappin stone and rock in for the grass for the first 16 inches behind the seawall, the grass hasn't survived salt spray there. 50 bogs of rock and 50 stones to go. Woot.
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Fun photo I found in the Yahoo files, kind of a good look at the anatomy of fiberglass and gelcoat. The hulls are made by spraying gelcoat into the female mold that was first coated with a release agent, it is king of like hard, thick paint. That is the crusty blue stuff in this photo. Then fiberglass cloth is laid on the inside of the gelcoat and it was wet out with polysester resin. The resin is the brown stuff coating the cloth. On this boat a lot of the resin has ablated off, leaving fuzzy cloth. The fiberglass and cloth should have a clear appearance, if they are cloudy, then that are has been crushed and the resin is fractured away from the cloth. So a lot of time the gelcoat can be repaired without messing with the fiberglass. If the fiberglass is crushed or degraded to the fuzzy cloth stage, then the fiberglass needs to be repairs as well.
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...Fun photo I found in the Yahoo files, kind of a good look at the anatomy of fiberglass and gelcoat...
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This is based on the fact that I have a 1972 boat and a 1971 boat.That document is a copy of the Sunfish Timeline found in the Files of what is now groups.io/Sunfish Sailor. Keith passed along the yahoo group to me after Wayne passed away.
I can make a note of those changes.
• Halyard deck block to fairlead ('71-'72 ?). Still a Block in 1972
Also still has the old Bailer in 1972. Likely both changed in 1973.