On Fri, 12 Nov 2021, 09:39, I wrote:
Hi Alec,
Apologies for not getting back a day or so.While Tim L was treasurer, I was happy to pay for a website presence but when I moved away and the provider was taken over by TSO, I made an arrangement with Paul to regularise the payment for the site, nemaritimetrust.co.uk (NEMT) and I continued to run it. There is not very much we can do with Daily.co.uk Linux Home Pro – nemaritimetrust.co.uk and I was busy transferring when the row broke out so I never completed it.
The row was about editing the website: nemaritimetrust.co.uk, in which the history of the North East Maritime Trust or NEMT, had been written to the website by me for about six years, and in particular the removal of most of the posts and pages that referred especially to its partner, the Northumbrian Fisheries Heritage Trust or NFHT.
The history of what the members of the did during the years from about 2002 onwards, can be found by looking through the Archives on the right and I should explain that NEMT, restores and rebuilds the boats and occasionally makes a new one for a special project while NFHT was created to look after them when they had been made presentable and seaworthy. I apologise for the gross oversimplification of what both Trusts aim to achieve.
In January 2023 the row erupted again with the publication of the paper “Objection to proposal by the charity NEMT” by me, was about the arbitrary cancellation of a debt by the ‘board of NEMT’ and as the debt was promptly paid I thought the row would have died down but it didnot.
In Mid March 2024, I discovered that as an administrator, I had been locked out of the site which I had been maintaining for nearly ten years by Alec Renwick with the help of one of TSOHost’s Agents and another of their Agents implied that I could not get things put back to way they were without the agreement of Mr Renwick who is the Chair of NEMT.
While I had been locked out I could still view its content and found much of it original content missing which was somewhat annoying but in his last post there was a claim that the site that I had run without complaint or ten years or so had been destroyed:-
Unfortunately our site has been almost destroyed by scamming, but we are trying to sort it out.
As you can see, certain nasty Trustees of Northumbrian Fishing Heritage Trust (NFHT) have deleted some of our precious content. Pathetic, isn’t it!
It was not his site and I repeat, until Mr Renwick became the Chair of NEMT there had been not one complaint about the sites’ content. It was in fact destroyed by the author of that comment when he gained control of the site in the period prior to March 15th 2024, and I was left with no choice to recover what I could from what was left, switch the provider away from TSOHost and rebuild the site from scratch again with its new provider.
The rebuild of the site is still in progress and I hope to add some more detail for those genuinely interested in the restoration of traditional fishing boats that were still working on the North East Coast at the turn of the century.
There is still much to do – cheers,
Mick