DOCUMENTATION ONLINE AGAIN!

CaptainScott · Post by **CaptainScott** » Wed May 01, 2013 8:15 am

New Documents page:
Click Here!

Hi Guys,
After various options of compressing, zipping, etc of our documents I found that if I compressed we lose resolution. No big deal for text but some of the photos are bad enough to figure out but with added loss of resolution they became downright ugly.

So, I have decided to host all the documents on my "CaptainScottSailing.com" web page.

Here I can offer up all the docs with the full resolution that I have received them in. No compression! Some of the files are huge!

Next, I am lazy so I needed a way to display docs without having to maintain a dynamic web page on a regular basis. So what I have done is create a directory structure on the disk. The php page scans the directory on disk and uses the directory name as a header. Then it gets a list of each file in that directory, sorts it, and displays it as a link you can download the file from! All this means is when I get a new document, I FTP it to the server in the proper directory, and it is immediatly available to everyone! No code changes, no page changes, NOTHING! Yeah!

The whole concept is pretty basic and simple and VERY EASY to maintain.
I will update our main page here to reflect the new location for documents later tonight. For now, I have added a "Documents" link to my signature in my posts where you can get to the files. Also the link is at the top of this post.

Thanks for everyone who has graciously donated documents to our forum!
If anyone finds any missing documents, has more documents or finds a broken link, let me know!

Scott

Padiunka · Post by **Padiunka** » Wed May 01, 2013 10:02 am

Thats pretty slick there Captain, nice work. I have a full c27 owners manual. If I find access to a scanner, is this something you would like to host on the doc site?

CaptainScott · Post by **CaptainScott** » Wed May 01, 2013 12:02 pm

Padiunka wrote:Thats pretty slick there Captain, nice work. I have a full c27 owners manual. If I find access to a scanner, is this something you would like to host on the doc site?

Absolutely! I'd love to get a good scan of the document and post it for everyone!

Someone here was able to scan and create a PDF out of documents but I can not remember who. If they don't speak up and if you are willing I can scan the docs myself however a more experienced scanner might do a better job than me! LOL!

Thank you for the offer and again, YES! I'd love a copy!

Scott

trev · Post by **trev** » Wed May 01, 2013 5:46 pm

I have high speed color duplex scanners at work, I used these to scan the 250 sailor service manuals on the docs site. The only downside is if it's a book it has to be taken apart. If you need it scanned let me know and I'd split the postage with you and give Scott a place to FTP the files from.

Padiunka · Post by **Padiunka** » Thu May 02, 2013 4:09 am

I talked with my Girl last night (first mate). She said she should be able to do it at work. I will get her the info this weekend and I should be able to get it to you shortly.

Thanks for the offers to scan Trev, if she cant come through I will take you up on your offer. I am all about gewtting the info out there so everyone has access.

So Capt, .pdf works best?

CaptainScott · Post by **CaptainScott** » Thu May 02, 2013 5:50 am

Padiunka wrote:I talked with my Girl last night (first mate). She said she should be able to do it at work. I will get her the info this weekend and I should be able to get it to you shortly.

Thanks for the offers to scan Trev, if she cant come through I will take you up on your offer. I am all about gewtting the info out there so everyone has access.

So Capt, .pdf works best?

PDF is my preference only because all the pages are kept together! However I will take anything I can get just to share the knowledge!

Again, many thanks to you in advance for providing the info! I may never use it but SOMEONE will!

Funny, I remember trev providing the Chrysler outboard documents! I thought I'd never use those! LOL! Now I have a very clean Chrysler outboard I need to make run! Those docs will come in handy!
Thanks Trev!

When it comes to documents I tend to hoard!
Anyone else have a doc that is not on our site I'm happy to share with all if you are willing to get me copies!

I'll take anything Chrysler related! Notice we have many manuals, drawings, ads, and even a document on the toilets Chrysler used! LOL!

Thanks!
Scott

Chrysler20%26 · Post by **Chrysler20%26** » Fri May 03, 2013 1:18 am

Thank you Scott for all you do to keep this Forum running.

tgentry · Post by **tgentry** » Wed May 08, 2013 9:14 am

Looks like I need to dig out all my C26 stuff.

Actually I just checked, it's all on my web site.

CaptainScott · Post by **CaptainScott** » Wed May 08, 2013 1:04 pm

tgentry wrote:Looks like I need to dig out all my C26 stuff.

Actually I just checked, it's all on my web site.

Hey Tom,
If you could send me the links on your site I can get them directly from there if you like! I poked around your nice site and could not fine them!

Thanks!
Scott

tgentry · Post by **tgentry** » Thu May 09, 2013 5:16 am

I guess I'll have to work on making things easier to find.

C26 manual:
http://svcopacetic.webs.com/apps/photos ... id=8607650

Chrysler Sailboat brochure with C26 on cover (you may have this one):
http://svcopacetic.webs.com/apps/photos ... id=8615373

C26 and Sailor Outboard magazine ads:
http://svcopacetic.webs.com/apps/photos ... id=8615232

CaptainScott · Post by **CaptainScott** » Thu May 09, 2013 6:10 am

Ah, OK, I did not think to look at the photo album! I was looking for a PDF or such! Doh!

Thank you sir, I will make these available in our repository also!

Scott

tgentry · Post by **tgentry** » Thu May 09, 2013 6:17 am

Scott, thanks for all you do. Sorry, no PDF's, they came to me as JPG's.

CaptainScott · Post by **CaptainScott** » Thu May 09, 2013 7:18 am

OK Tom!
I have copied your docs to the repository.

There is a new C26 Manual section, I moved the Outboard pictures to the outboard section and added a sailboat brochure section !

Thanks for the docs!
They are available now in two places!

Scott

astrorad · Post by **astrorad** » Fri May 10, 2013 5:29 pm

Scott...I have another video that I posted showing the "new" method I used to install my deadlights...it is on my YouTube channel like the others that you have linked in Videos tab. Here it is if you are interested in adding it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gbuo8MOnwA