Updated January 2007 to Include the New KNOWLEDGEBASE
Updated 2009 to Include the New wiki Section
See posts below for information on the new wiki
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Updated November 2009:
The C34 community is indebted to the late
Past Commodore Jon Schneider (#1058 -
Atlantic Rose) for the tremendous work involved in his contribution of the new
KNOWLEDGEBASE, a complete Index of the C34IA Tech Notes, Projects and FAQs. It is yet another example of the benefits of C34 IA membership. It also reflects the continued interest of our members to share their information and to "put back" into their community.
The New
KNOWLEDGEBASE is a critically important feature to the C34 Website because it fulfills the requests of many members for an easier and more useful vehicle to search for information. The "Original Website" search engine was poor compared to the powerful search feature on this Message Board. While Search engines in general act like indexes in books, this new
KNOWLEDGEBASE provides BOTH a Table of Contents AND indexing features. We are sure that it will add immensely to your enjoyment and ease of use to find information about C34 skipper's experiences and helpful hints.
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In a recent post, Ron Hill noted: "As Stu said - most of the information is already out there.
Might be nice if Santa would bring us some "links" on the Message Board to our other C34 IA sites like "Projects" and "FAQs"."
In response to that request, and since some have recently said that "There's TOO MUCH information" on our website, I have modified some recent posts I have made and offer this as your
Guide to clarify and explain how the C34 website is arranged.
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Your sources of technical information on C34s are:
-- Original Webpage FAQs: http://www.c34.org/faq-pages/faq.html
-- Original Webpage Tech Notes: http://www.c34.org/techindex_top.htm
-- The Tech Notes Index on this Message Board is: http://c34.org/bbs/index.php?topic=3096.0 Please note this list includes some non-C34 tech notes, available ONLY in paper copies of the magazine, NOT on the Tech Notes Online
-- Original Webpage Projects: http://www.c34.org/projects/projects.html
-- This Message Board on the Forum: http://c34.org/bbs/index.php?board=11.0
-- The NEW JANUARY 2007 KNOWLEDGEBASE Index to the Original Website: http://c34.org/bbs/index.php?topic=3362.0, which links to: http://www.c34.org/tech-notes-index/technotes-excel.xls-- The NEW
2009 WIKI Section:
http://www.c34.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page[/b]
These six specific areas have all of the technical information that has been so graciously shared by C34 owners since 1987, right here on your website.
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Here's the history: The Original Home Page at
www.c34ia.org and the associated Projects and FAQs were developed over the years to organize and collect the vast amount of information that had been generated by interested C34 owners about their boats.
The Original Homepage FAQs, particularly, were made by a handful of us who took our own personal time and copied questions and answers from the older email "List" that preceded the Message Board, and made "articles" about the subjects. They were prepared and edited by these individuals and then emailed to the Associate Webmasters, who then posted them on the website. As noted to me recently by a Mark II owner, those FAQs are primarily concerned with Mark I boats, although some boats systems remain the same (i.e., HX zincs and electrical systems). I find that the FAQs are almost essential for new owners with older boats.
The Tech Notes Index was prepared and published on the website in early 1999. The purpose was to list the contents of the Technical Notes that were originally only published in Mainsheet magazine ever since the C34 section started in the magazine in 1987. Later, in 2001, your C34 Officers agreed to support the effort required to copy each of those voluminous technical articles and post them on the website as an advantage to our C34 IA membership. They had previously only been available for additional cost in what were considered to be poor xerox copies. The Tech Notes Index is available to everyone. The Tech Notes Online are available ONLINE to only C34 IA members. The Tech Notes from 1987 to 2001 also come on a FREE CD-ROM when you join the Association.
This Message Board is relatively "new" compared to the long history of the Original C34 website and is an ongoing resource for technical information in addition to the archived and captured boat technical information at
www.c34.org, with it's own Projects, FAQs and Tech Notes.
With the advent of this
searchable Message Board relatively recently, there was no longer a need to do that time consuming work for the FAQs, which is why there are fewer new FAQs on the original homepage. This Message Board has pretty much replaced the old FAQs, primarily because the Message Board is searchable and eliminates the work required for the preparation of those FAQs. But most importantly all of the old FAQs still remain available for your use and information.
I continue to urge you all to check out the Original C34 Webpage (
www.c34ia.org) Projects, FAQs and Tech Notes Index with the links noted above
in addition to this Message Board to become familiar with the incredible wealth of information that has been gathered over the years about our boats, both Mark Is and Mark IIs. Please note that the "FAQs" on the Original Homepage are BOAT related FAQs, and not "how to use the website" FAQs.
The New
KNOWLEDGEBASE will facilitate information research on the Original C34 Website.
Also be aware that you no longer have to prepare and submit Projects and FAQs for the original Website. Just use the
wiki.
To submit Tech Notes to the C34 section of the Mainsheet Magazine, prepare your material and submit it to the Technical Editor of the Association. It will be published and only later will it appear on the website: first, Mainsheet won't publish previously published material, so it has to get published in the magazine first; second, we used to scan the published text into PDFs for the Tech Notes Online and now post the original articles in full and living color!
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Jan. 2007 update: We are working to improve the posts to the Tech Notes Online by using the original, color photo, material and intend to have that operational soon in 2007.)
Update June 2009: Commodore Bob Kuba has been updating the TNOs with the original color photos and unedited original text material from 2006 to the present in addition to the older PDF files. Take a look at the updated TNOs.Of course, we continue to look forward to your new questions on this Message Board, which is "THE" place to exchange daily ideas and questions.
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