Free: Dashew Offshore Cruising Encyclopaedia

[noelex]

Steve Dashew has always been a hero of mine.

His offshore cruising encyclopaedia is regarded as the bible.

It has until recently been an expensive book, but it has been very generously just been offered as a free download. Along with his other books it is available as here:

SetSail » Free Books
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[michael_w]

Your link doesn't work, try here:encouragement:

http://www.setsail.com/free-books/

 

[RichardS]

Very interesting. Four Dashew books available for free download.

Thanks for the link.

Richard

 

[Monique]

Well found. Downloaded.

TA

 

[KAL]

I can't seem to get the fourth one, the bible, to download at all...

Other three downloaded successfully. If anyone has a managed to download the Offshore Encyclopaedia, I would love a copy emailed if you have a moment. Just can't make the link work.

 

[lukedh]

I can't seem to get the fourth one, the bible, to download at all...

Other three downloaded successfully. If anyone has a managed to download the Offshore Encyclopaedia, I would love a copy emailed if you have a moment. Just can't make the link work.

It is a 126 MB PDF file with forms in a zip file. It has been done on a Mac and the forms which I believe allow you to search on a Mac mostly don’t work, but you should be able to download and open the PDFs but will need to extract it all from the zip file.

 

[KAL]

Ah thanks! I've been trying on an iPad, which doesn't handle zip files without an app, I believe. I'll get it on the home computer instead. :encouragement:

 

[Neeves]

Thanks Noelex, I was wondering what to read on our next, long, ocean passage.

Jonathan

 

[mawm]

I must be the only Luddite on the board! It is easy to download The Offshore Encyclopaedia onto my Mac but when unzipped I have a large number of pdf's rather than a book in iBook. Dashew's instructions say that it is a CD and requires Adobe.

Anyone know how to bind all the pdf's together to make it into one book - so at least I can transfer it to my iPad to read?

The other books are all fine, although I had a couple already from a previous free offer.

 

[SiteSurfer]

Acrobat Pro will 'bind' multiple pdfs into one file, I'm sure there are other free apps too.

 

[reginaldon]

Well found. Downloaded.

TA

+ 1.

 

[prv]

Anyone know how to bind all the pdf's together to make it into one book - so at least I can transfer it to my iPad to read?

In Preview, with the page thumbnails shown on the left-hand side, you can drag in pages from other files to add them to the current one. Not sure if you can just drag in a file from the Finder or if you have to open the other file, select all the other pages, and drag those across. You can then either just save the existing file or go to Print and choose the PDF button bottom-left to output a new PDF instead of paper.

All the dragging stuff around gets a little unwieldy with big files, and there are no doubt dedicated apps to do the same job more easily; I used to use one called Combine PDFs but it was only for PowerPC Macs so no longer works and I haven't bothered to find a replacement.

Pete