Trouble with boatdiesel

[TBill36]

Anyone else having trouble accessing boatdiesel. I know it went down a couple of weeks ago, but then it came back up. Now it's down again for me. Is it my brouser, or is everyone else unable to access it also?

 

[Portage_Bay]

Still down

 

[lwarden]

I let my subscription pass for boatdiesel a couple years ago. Seemed to me the most helpful members moved on to other places like sbmar. The only benefit to that site was the historical information. The structure of the website is prehistoric as well.

 

[DavidM]

I gave up on boatdiesel a number of years ago following Tony Athens’ falling out. I wrote several articles for boatdiesel during that period and one article referenced Sbmar as a source of specific information on servicing aftercoolers.

The owner of boatdiesel, can’t remember his name, wouldn’t publish my article unless I removed the reference to Tony Athens’ Sbmar.

I refused and gave up on boatdiesel after that. Good riddance.

It is sad, because at one time it was the go to source for marine diesel info. Now Sbmar’s forum covers Cummins engines thoroughly and it now looks like their forum doesn’t cover other makes.

So, I don’t know where to go for current advice on Yanmar’s, Volvos, Cats, etc.

David

 

[C lectric]

Boatdiesel is still down as of Oct 24, 2024. They were operating again for a couple of weeks but have disappeared again.
It was a darned good site. Too bad.

 

[jleonard]

I gave up on boatdiesel a number of years ago following Tony Athens’ falling out. I wrote several articles for boatdiesel during that period and one article referenced Sbmar as a source of specific information on servicing aftercoolers.

The owner of boatdiesel, can’t remember his name, wouldn’t publish my article unless I removed the reference to Tony Athens’ Sbmar.

I refused and gave up on boatdiesel after that. Good riddance.

It is sad, because at one time it was the go to source for marine diesel info. Now Sbmar’s forum covers Cummins engines thoroughly and it now looks like their forum doesn’t cover other makes.

So, I don’t know where to go for current advice on Yanmar’s, Volvos, Cats, etc.

David

I think the owner's name is Peter Compton.
I also left boatdiesel around that era because of the Tony Athens incident. I can't even come close to describing how valuable Tony's advice was during my repower project on the old Mainship.
I might add that my wife and I had the pleasure of meeting him and his wife a couple years ago here in Florida as he owns a home about 50 minutes north of where I live. We had a couple of drinks and a nice lunch. This post reminds me that I have to email him and see how the property made out thru the recent hurricanes.

 

[Ken E.]

I also left boatdiesel around the time of the Tony Athens rift. A real shame since up to that point, they were the source of authoritative engine info on many brands and models.

 

[DavidM]

Anyone remember the cause of the rift? I vaguely recall it was because Tony wanted to commercialize his contributions and Peter wanted it all for himself. Or maybe they had a profit sharing agreement and Tony wanted to carve out a piece for himself separate from the shared profits.

All I really know is that after Tony left, Peter was obsessive about totally removing Tony, his contributions and his name from boatdiesel.

As they say, money is the root of all evils or is it sex? Probably both.

David