Boat diesel website

[Kevind767]

Anyone having problems accessing Boatdiesel.com?
I get nothing but a blank white page, and does not matter what device ie. iPad/laptop

[S Ritzert]

I just tried, and at first it came up as a blank page. I hit refresh, and now it is working. I went to the pdf library to make sure that worked as well. All is good on my end.

[Kevind767]

Yep, had to refresh and it works on the Windows laptop on Firefox and Microsoft Edge.

Still not working on iPad with safari.

Thanks for checking!!

[Tony Meola]

Kevin

I had the same issues and had to try a couple of times before it loaded.

[Tony Meola]

Is anyone still having trouble with the site? I have not been able to get on it for a while.

[JeremyD]

Me neither

[S Ritzert]

its not working for me either at the moment

[Tony Meola]

I know when they had the issue a few weeks ago, they said it was due to an upgrade, and they had it fixed. But I guess not.

[Carl]

I know when they had the issue a few weeks ago, they said it was due to an upgrade, and they had it fixed. But I guess not.

I hate to use the word HATE, but I HATE software upgrades. Seems many companies push out upgrades before working out the kinks and bugs and we become the guinea pigs. It's one thing when its a cheap App, gaming software or home computer used to surf. But when its my Cell Phone Provider updating my phone and I cannot answer business calls, my accounting software that won't generate paychecks on Payday or my CAM software tossing out odd moves that can crash a machine...Yes it becomes HATE, I hate updates as its a roll of the dice and the companies give you not choice these days sun-setting the old well working software.

I do have to say the update Matt provided us with this site...to my knowledge went very well.

[Kevind767]

I still can’t get to open on anything Mac.

[John Brownlee]

I think Boat Diesel is dead and gone, unfortunately.

[Tony Meola]

John

It looks like it is. Over on The Hull Truth a couple of guys had said that before the update there was a struggle to keep it going.

[JeremyD]

It's a sad day then -

[Bruce]

Unfortunately, most don't know the amount of time it takes to answer and update a web site or edit and post videos although it is easier these days than when Pat and I started out in the early 2000's.
When we had the mechanical board, pretty much the first of its kind, I'd work 14-hour days to keep my business going and then spend 2 to 4 hours answering questions for no money as it wasn't a subscription service like boat diesel was.
It lasted 2 years before I pulled the plug and was just worn out because it wasn't limited to 31's, it was all boats and all things related to boats.
I imagine if you're paying people to keep a subscription service going and the subscriptions drop, sooner or later it dies which is why Pat and I have always made this a donation site only. And the donations in the last two years have dropped to almost nothing as people's expenses have skyrocketed which I understand.
Luckily it doesn't take much in the way of funds to keep this going for now.

BTW, techies rule the world and there's nothing that us novices can do. I thank God for one of our own who saved this site when we got notice it wouldn't pass muster anymore without an upgrade which I have no knowledge how to do or implement.

[Yannis]

Tank you Bruce and Mike, and Matt for the improvement.

[JeremyD]

Appreciate all you do Bruce