No, I'm NOT talking about politics. As I'm doing research on the internet, more and more of my bookmarked links lead to "not there anymore" pages. This post is to help me remember that sometimes you can still find information if you look for it hard enough.
International Marine, manufacturer of the West Wight Potter sailboats until it closed in 2015, provided a treasure trove of information gathered from Potter owners and ex-owners. If you were a new owner of an old Potter, this website was invaluable (thank you, Ken Lange). When the company closed, the Potter lore appeared to be lost. Fortunately, most of the information on the old website still exists (for now at least...) using the Wayback Machine,
https://web.archive.org/web/20160401020516/http://wwpotterowners.com/
As a new owner of a 25 year old MacGregor 19 Powersailer, I found the "dougpile.com" website to be a great starting point for info and mods, including a copy of the M19 Owners Manual. The original website is gone, but most of that content is still at
http://web.archive.org/web/20161014125752/http://www.dougpile.com/mac19/
A couple of years ago, I found another great MacGregor sailboat resource. I spent time perusing the forums, especially the section of "mods," then dreamed of the mods that I would undertake on my new-to-me M19. After a few months, the website disappeared. The boat has been parked and the projects have been halted for a couple of seasons.
Recently I went looking for a nugget of information related to outboards and prop selection using the usual Google search. Lo and behold, I found that the old Mac website has reappeared, with a new and sleeker front page, a lot of recent posts on the forums, and more mods. More fun this winter; and dreams of new Mac19 projects! Here's the link,
To give equal time to the Potter owners (or potential owners), the best forum that I've found is at at the Trailor Sailor website. Here's the link to the Potters (there are also forums for other brands like Nimble, Com-Pac, Montgomery, and Precision),
https://forum.trailersailor.com//forum.php?id=2
Happy Thanksgiving.
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