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Subject: TWL: RE: RE: Coast Pilot Now Online - FREE
From: Doug Barnard (dbarnard@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 13:14:15 EDT
> [mailto:trawler-world-list-admin@XXX.XXX] On Behalf
> Of Keith Pleas
> This sounds like a great idea, but their implementation is virtually
> useless. Their approach was (for Coast Pilot 7) to hack the
> book into 20
<snip>
Not that I'm usually willing to come to the defense of bureaucracy, but
they seemed to me to do a reasonable thing here. You can just download
the relevant parts, and skip the rest. If you want to be able to do
lookups, a purchase of Adobe Acrobat, about $125 (street price), will
allow you to concatenate the files together pretty easily.
Not a perfect solution, but I think that it falls in the "LOA" category
(Least Objectionable Alternative). The enterprising mariner could
assemble various Pilots, guidebooks, personal notes, etc. and rip them
into Acrobat (.pdf) format. This would be a great reference, fully
searchable.
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Doug Barnard
currently in custom Skipjack 20 stern drive
soon-to-be beginning construction
Origami Steel Swain 40 "Lotus Dream"
near Ventura, CA
http://www.virtualacreage.com/LotusDream
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