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Thread: Murray Isles Design gone AWOL
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15th May 2008, 10:36 PM #1
Murray Isles Design gone AWOL
I was about to suggest Murray Isles as a powerboat designer on another thread, but in the last 3 months, his domain www.islesdesign.com has gone to an american interior designer.
Can't find any direct link at the moment, & google only returns ads for plans distributors such as DFWB & etc.
Anyone know what has happened to him ?
cheers
AJ
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17th May 2008, 10:24 AM #2
I had a look round on the net and couldn't find his site either. Generally when a domain expires (eg www.storerboatplans.com) they put up a message like you saw. So there is either a problem or he has not renewed.
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Isles Murray
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Boat Design & Marine Consultancy
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o Isles 25a Rossendell Ave West Hobart Phone/Fax....... 7000
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o Isles Mobile Service
o 0407 543 941
Michael
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17th May 2008, 02:16 PM #3
His domain has probably been expired more than 3 months. Usually, it goes into a "registrar held" state for a short grace period for the lessee to renew. Then it goes back onto the open market. Murray's has been re-leased to an american design company following that grace period expiry.
So I figured either he doesn't feel it worth maintaining a website & domain, has retired, or something bad has happened. I don't know the bloke, but he has some -very- interesting designs. It'd be a pity to see them disappear.
That's all.
cheers
AJ
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19th May 2008, 12:15 AM #4Intermediate Member
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I'll do some asking around locally......I seem to remember that he used to be involved with the Wooden Boat Centre in Franklin in some way.....he might be contactable through there!!
I will be down that way in a couple of weeks and will call in and enquire unless anyone else can find out beforehand!!
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19th May 2008, 02:27 AM #5Member
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There is an archive of the website at the Wayback Machine here.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...lesdesign.com/
Mark
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23rd May 2008, 12:26 PM #6
Spoke with Murray this morning. He is doing much more custom work than stock designs these days so has pulled the website. He is still available via email at [email protected].
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23rd May 2008, 03:40 PM #7
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