Larson Boats 'Archives' are Gone

[JoLin]

I know, it hardly ranks up there with having a bad gimbal bearing, but WTF?

I spend a lot of time browsing boat ads, and trying to advise people who are figuring out 'what to buy'. A few of the manufacturers keep archives of all their boat models going back decades. Invaluable resource for comparing specs, deck plans, equipment, options, etc.

Larson was one of those, and I took full advantage of it when I was cruiser shopping last fall. Now it's gone. I mean, how much does it cost to keep an already created database available? Grrrr...

At least Carver, Four Winns, Searay and Wellcraft still have theirs.

Sorry for the rant, but dang. That really ticked me off (could you tell?).

 

[Slide]

Re: Larson Boats 'Archives' are Gone

I noticed too! I'm buying my dad's V195 Senza in May and I had looked up the old catalog for it last summer. Went back to look again a few weeks ago and it's gone!

 

[F14CRAZY]

Re: Larson Boats 'Archives' are Gone

Archive.org

 

[JoLin]

Re: Larson Boats 'Archives' are Gone

Archive.org

Maybe you're seeing something I'm not, but I came up empty on searches for Larson Boats and Larson Cabrio and Larson Hampton.

Care to share?

 

[F14CRAZY]

Re: Larson Boats 'Archives' are Gone

Maybe you're seeing something I'm not, but I came up empty on searches for Larson Boats and Larson Cabrio and Larson Hampton.

Care to share?

While I don't own a Larson...did you enter larsons web address or the address of where the archive was?

 

[JoLin]

Re: Larson Boats 'Archives' are Gone

I don't own a Larson either.

The Larson web site address is larsonboats.com. The link to the archive/past model info section is gone. Looks like they redesigned the site recently and it's no longer available.

I don't know the full website address/extension of where the archives were previously located.

Thanks.

 

[bret_dmb]

Re: Larson Boats 'Archives' are Gone

Try this link. You should have access to most of the info previously on there.
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20060614181742/http://larsonboats.com/extras/archives.asp

 

[CascoBay]

Re: Larson Boats 'Archives' are Gone

I own a Larson 254 Cabrio if you need any advice or anything let me know.

I agree that their new website is horrible.

 

[JoLin]

Re: Larson Boats 'Archives' are Gone

Try this link. You should have access to most of the info previously on there.
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20060614181742/http://larsonboats.com/extras/archives.asp

There's nothing there. Too bad.

 

[CascoBay]

Re: Larson Boats 'Archives' are Gone

The link works fine for me and I was able to download the past archive brochures.

Sorry nothing is going right.

 

[JoLin]

Re: Larson Boats 'Archives' are Gone

The link works fine for me and I was able to download the past archive brochures.

Sorry nothing is going right.

Couldn't get to it at work, can now. Thanks.

 

[surfeur972]

Re: Larson Boats 'Archives' are Gone

thank you for this link !!

 

[boaterinsd]

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why is there no 72 or 74?
ok found 72 as it says 71 , but anyway, the large green baot on page 6 of this is a WHAT? I have one of these but not the fin on it.
heres the link to followhttp://http://replay.web.archive.org/20060316173741/http://www.larsonboats.com/_download/_brochures/1971.pdf
I am trying to find pics of the seats that were in the boat originally.