[Rhodes22-list] Updated Rhodes 22 Owner's Manual

[Jesse Shumaker]

Nice work, thanks!

Jesse
S/V Zephyr

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 3:17 PM Ric Stott <ric at stottarchitecture.com> wrote:

> Gotta love Rhodies and the organization.
> What a great crowd!
> Thank you Mike
> Sail -on!
> Ric
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> Richard F. Stott, AIA, LEED AP
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> > On Sep 23, 2022, at 4:09 PM, Rodney Brown <rnelson204 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Wow! Thanks Mike!
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Sep 23, 2022, at 14:49, Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> There's been a 2006 version of the Rhodes 22 owners manual in website
> document library, probably since around 2006.  It was a PDF with images of
> the manual's pages rather than the actual document text.
> >>
> >> Our own Michael McKay saw there was room for improvement, so he took it
> upon himself to put the page images through some OCR software to convert
> the images to text.  He put the text into a Word document, and then turned
> the Word document into a PDF.
> >>
> >> There are two primary advantages to the new format.  1) It is much
> smaller, so it will load in your browser more quickly.  2) It is
> searchable.
> >>
> >> You can find a link to the new Owner's Manual here:
> http://www.rhodes22.org/doc-lib.html
> >>
> >> I taking a look at the new Owner's Manual, I realized that I'd
> forgotten how well written and informative it is.  I plan to find time to
> read it again this winter.
> >>
> >> So, thanks to Mike McKay for making to changes to the document, and to
> Mike Weisner for making the changes to the website.  I had no hand in the
> process except for writing this post.
> >>
> >> --Peter
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