wkearney99
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- Solstice
- Vessel Make
- Grand Banks 47 Eastbay FB
For those of us with older/used boats it's often tricky to find info online. Manufacturer websites get redesigned, part makers get bought out, etc.
If you don't know about it already there's a project called the Internet Archive. Part of which handles capturing and saving web pages. This can be a tremendously useful resource if you're looking for data that's no longer available on a current website.
Visit the Wayback Machine and enter the URL of the website you want to find.
It's often best to use the starting point of a website. As in Example Domain and not http://www.example.com/some/page/buried/down/deep.
If it's been archived you'll see a range of capture dates. Select a year and it'll present a calendar of days for any captures that were stored. Click on a circled date and it'll bring up the website from that day.
You can then use the header arrows to move forward/backward through subsequent archives. If you move forward and the page can't be found, try moving back up to the top of the website again on that new date. When websites get redesigned what used to be at one location might be at another. Restarting from the top will help you find it.
Not everything gets captured. Sometimes a website uses pages that can't be captured/archived intelligently.
I've found this incredibly useful for finding old catalogs, part numbers, manual and instruction PDFs and more.
Hope this helps someone else too!
If you don't know about it already there's a project called the Internet Archive. Part of which handles capturing and saving web pages. This can be a tremendously useful resource if you're looking for data that's no longer available on a current website.
Visit the Wayback Machine and enter the URL of the website you want to find.
It's often best to use the starting point of a website. As in Example Domain and not http://www.example.com/some/page/buried/down/deep.
If it's been archived you'll see a range of capture dates. Select a year and it'll present a calendar of days for any captures that were stored. Click on a circled date and it'll bring up the website from that day.
You can then use the header arrows to move forward/backward through subsequent archives. If you move forward and the page can't be found, try moving back up to the top of the website again on that new date. When websites get redesigned what used to be at one location might be at another. Restarting from the top will help you find it.
Not everything gets captured. Sometimes a website uses pages that can't be captured/archived intelligently.
I've found this incredibly useful for finding old catalogs, part numbers, manual and instruction PDFs and more.
Hope this helps someone else too!