Oh no....a another year has passed! 
Welcome to Fund Raising Season 2021-2022! Each year we come to the owners to ask them considering supporting the site and chipping in to help pay the expenses of running and maintaining it. EricsonYachts.org is not a commercial site, does not charge for the information it disseminates, nor does it depend on third party advertising to pay it's bills. Since 2004 we have made a single annual request for donations, and typically these, in number, have been sufficient to cover the cost of the URL, hosting, software and other associated costs that keep this site running. Those wishing to support the site can do so via the Donations Policy Page:
ericsonyachts.org
In this, our second year of the COVID pandemic, we move into our 21st Year on the web as the leading source for information and community on the Ericson Yacht line. In the last two years, we managed to move from our old vBulletin platform over to this new Xenforo platform, and it appears to be running in a healthy and stable manner. We also managed this summer to team with the Greater Irvine Chamber of Commerce to provide Certificates of Origin for all Ericson Hulls on demand. These certificates are used when an owner wishes to move to the boat to a foreign port and requires documentation showing the hull was constructed in the United States and thus avoid excessive import taxes, etc. Additional information on this new service may be found here:
ericsonyachts.org
This year we also got rid of our 'internet roommates', moved to a dedicated server and had Elastic Search installed. Elastic Search is a separate search engine which will index our entire database, and allow for easier searches and locating of information. Our move to a dedicated server was one of the requirements to set this product up and get the plug in working (the plug in will actually provide you an advanced search window to utilize). The other requirement will be increased diskspace for the indexes and associated items. That, and since our migration, traffic and new memberships have grown considerably (about 15%, which is considerable for us); so we need to upgrade for additional disk space as we are starting to run out of room, etc.
The other issue is that the Elastic Search engine and it's parameters are command-line driven (in Unix, I think) and I have to take some time to sit down and go through it to get it configured. All this said, once these additional space requirements are resolved and I get past my next Architectural Record Exam (for my license - I am half way through them as of this writing) at the end of month, I will dedicate some time to resolving this. Hopefully by this spring we'll have the new search engine in place and running and you guys can tell me what you think.
Anyhow, I hope that everyone (and your families) are healthy and happy. This last year has in many ways been even more trying than 2020, and I am hopeful that moving forward things will begin to improve, etc. Best wishes to you all - and thanks again for your continued support of EricsonYachts.org!
Happy Holidays!
//sse
Welcome to Fund Raising Season 2021-2022! Each year we come to the owners to ask them considering supporting the site and chipping in to help pay the expenses of running and maintaining it. EricsonYachts.org is not a commercial site, does not charge for the information it disseminates, nor does it depend on third party advertising to pay it's bills. Since 2004 we have made a single annual request for donations, and typically these, in number, have been sufficient to cover the cost of the URL, hosting, software and other associated costs that keep this site running. Those wishing to support the site can do so via the Donations Policy Page:
Donation Policy
In this, our second year of the COVID pandemic, we move into our 21st Year on the web as the leading source for information and community on the Ericson Yacht line. In the last two years, we managed to move from our old vBulletin platform over to this new Xenforo platform, and it appears to be running in a healthy and stable manner. We also managed this summer to team with the Greater Irvine Chamber of Commerce to provide Certificates of Origin for all Ericson Hulls on demand. These certificates are used when an owner wishes to move to the boat to a foreign port and requires documentation showing the hull was constructed in the United States and thus avoid excessive import taxes, etc. Additional information on this new service may be found here:
Need an Ericson Certificate of Origin?
Now Available! Over the years we have had numerous owners come to us asking for assistance in obtaining a Certificate of Origin (COO) for their Ericson hull. Certificates of Origin are most commonly used in the importation of an object into another country; in order to establish the origin of...
This year we also got rid of our 'internet roommates', moved to a dedicated server and had Elastic Search installed. Elastic Search is a separate search engine which will index our entire database, and allow for easier searches and locating of information. Our move to a dedicated server was one of the requirements to set this product up and get the plug in working (the plug in will actually provide you an advanced search window to utilize). The other requirement will be increased diskspace for the indexes and associated items. That, and since our migration, traffic and new memberships have grown considerably (about 15%, which is considerable for us); so we need to upgrade for additional disk space as we are starting to run out of room, etc.
The other issue is that the Elastic Search engine and it's parameters are command-line driven (in Unix, I think) and I have to take some time to sit down and go through it to get it configured. All this said, once these additional space requirements are resolved and I get past my next Architectural Record Exam (for my license - I am half way through them as of this writing) at the end of month, I will dedicate some time to resolving this. Hopefully by this spring we'll have the new search engine in place and running and you guys can tell me what you think.
Anyhow, I hope that everyone (and your families) are healthy and happy. This last year has in many ways been even more trying than 2020, and I am hopeful that moving forward things will begin to improve, etc. Best wishes to you all - and thanks again for your continued support of EricsonYachts.org!
Happy Holidays!
//sse
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