My attempts at contacting Chuck's heirs have not produced any fruit. Unfortunately, the company that owns the original domain thinks it's worth $1200 and that's more than I wanted to pay. I am moving forward with wrtcleather.org and it will be strictly a memorial site for Chuck's work. I have already registered the domain and have given instructions to my web developer to get started. It won't restore the pictures to his forum posts but at least it's a start. I will keep an eye out on the .com and hope that I can secure it at a later date. It will look like the original site but I will also add gallery pages where customers and friends can submit pictures to be posted and I may put up some of his forum posts as articles. While the site is mostly intact on the wayback machine, I will need some help locating the pictures that are missing. I'll have a page with a list of file names that folks can use to look through the pictures they have so we can fill in the missing pieces.
I have also setup a new email account so if you have something you want to submit, send it here:
wrtcleather at hotmail.com
I don't know if I need to say this or not but this is strictly a not-for-profit endeavor.