Bertram33 User Forum

When did that happen?

Do you mean the general lack of activity? The site was hacked a few years ago and a lot of the original members lost their logins.

Sean, I would classify it as quiet.

Definitely quiet

I have not posted to this site in a couple of years, but ran across something I thought could be of interest to 33 Bertram owners and logged in, only to see this topic about the site being "quiet". So maybe a new post can spark some activity. My boat has been docked at Dauphin Island Marina for the five years I have owned it. This is the "big boat" dock at marina and has 40 slips. This summer three 33 Bertrams have permanent slips there. My boat, the "Trinity", a sportfisher owned by Mark who is on this forum and has been on and off at the marina, and a recently named "Bill's Boat", another sportfisher and new to "A" dock at the marina. Of the 40 slips on "A" dock, 30 are leased, and for 10 percent of the boats there to be 33 Bertrams seemed to be a sort of a phenomenon. Anybody else have that type of concentration of 33 Bertrams in the same harbor? Dennis Knizley Knot Guilty IV 454 Mercruisers Dauphin Island, AL

Out of Hyannis I believe there are two 33’s mine and another SF.

There are two where I stay. There are 62 slips (25' to 50'), Gerard (Greysole) and I are the two 33SF's there. There's also a 35B, the one where Doug got his engines from ! I can't say that there is any dominate type of boat. There are Carolina Classics, Tiara's, Cabo's, Grady's, a bunch of center consoles, cruisers and one sailboat....mainly because the harbor is not deep enough.

There are 4 33's (2 SF's and 2 FBC's) and 1 28 (Bahia Mar) at PCYC in Salem.

I would like to have another 33 if it had outboards. I miss my old boat but with all the shoaling in my area, inboards are to much trouble timing tides getting in and out of my creek.

Glad to hear it isn’t dead, even if a lot of the old (and valuable) posts are gone.

Today I tried logging in, only to find that my password didn’t work anymore. That is strange but I was able to reset it (obviously)

Hey Sean, glad to see you back. In a nutshell what happened was the ISP the site was hosted on was going belly up. They wouldn't offer any support or anything, and the site was getting hacked left and right. I wanted to move the site a while ago, but the technology that the site and forum were built on (Microsoft Frontpage and Microsoft Database) were so old an unsupported it was a huge effort to do so, and I kept putting it off. Finally this year, I bit the bullet and hired a professional to modernize everything by moving the site to Wordpress and the forum to phpBB which uses the firmly establish MySQL database. I would say between 90-95% of everything went well. Passwords unfortunately were the one thing that got hosed for a reason I don't really understand. Everything else was pretty minor. The main site is still getting worked on, but the Forum is pretty much done. The host is a very reputable one, and I've added as many security measures I can to prevent further disruptions. Also, the backups and archiving is much more regular.