You see, I inherited a boat.
This boat belonged to my father. He was not materialistic but he took very good care of the things he cared about, and he cared about this boat. It's an old 18' aluminum fishing/cruising boat built in the early 1960's. It's not particularly valuable as a collectible but it is fairly rare and has some unique modifications. I spent a lot of time trying to dig up all of the info that I could on it, but this is one of those situations where most of the companies involved have been gone for decades and most everyone who was around when these were made are either dead or not really on the Internet.
It's a shame that I waited so long to start my research because 10 or 20 years ago, there were quite a few active web forums containing informational/tutorial threads from the proud owners of these old boats. I know because I have seen references to them. Some of the URLs are in archive.org, some are not. But the forums are gone, so a large chunk of knowledge on these boats is too, probably forever.
I did manage to dig up some interesting articles, pictures, and forum threads and needed a way to save them so that they didn't disappear from the web as well. There is probably an easier way to go about it, but in the end I ran ArchiveBox via Docker and set it to fetching what I could find and then downloaded the resulting pages as self-contained HTML pages.