I don't want to be pushy, but the web-site for the IC27A Technical
Notes section has carried the following promises for a year:
We have a gaping hole in our website presently. The Technical
articles are not available. The original publishing process never
retained an electronic copy of what went to print so we did a
recovery project. It's a long story including Gulf Coast hurricanes,
but bottom line the project stumbled around after a great deal of
effort and finally died. Well technically it got crushed by an oak
tree.
A new effort will complete a no frills copy of all 22 years this
month (Nov. 2005) in PDF format. By no frills I mean clunky file
sizes but once we have it we can improve it in phases. The original
project failed for its extended complexity (scan, OCR, edit OCR
errors, redo page layout, convert new pages to PDF) and yielded
nothing in the end. This go round will be full page images directly
into a PDF for each issue.
As someone who sails waters far removed from the active fleets and
races PHRF (as opposed to one-design), I joined the association for
the technical information available through the website and through
Mainsheet. I know there have been numerous technical problems, but
its been a couple of years and no web articles..... and the amount of
material published in Mainsheet has bordered on negligible. Many of
the links on the website are dead and nothing new has been added in
quite a while.
I would still love to see those articles and see some new articles in
the Mainsheet, but my membership expired at the end of last month,
and I'm having trouble convincing myself to renew after 4 years.
Anyone from the executive care to respond?
--
Dave Robinson
Peregrine
Catalina 27 #3695
1978 Standard Rig, Traditional Interior, A4, Tiller
Jacksons Point, Ontario
http://www.neptune.on.ca/~canoe/
"Cruising has two pleasures.
One is to go out in wider waters from a sheltered place.
The other is to go into a sheltered place from wider waters".
-Howard Bloomfield
