Bill and Dave here announcing improvements to our class web site making it more relevant and accessible. In early 2009 the J/30 Class co-presidents John McArthur and Carl Sherter declared the class web site and forum the official mechanism for J/30 Class communications. We’ve renovated J30.org with current Web 2.0 technology standards using blogs and widgets. This will help us improve class communications and continue to keep in touch – especially with the newest generation of sailors.

In 2010 and beyond, we want more media coverage from the fleets to include announcements, regatta news, video and photos. Each fleet should nominate a person to serve as news chairman. If you would like to volunteer, contact your fleet captain. We will provide innovative access methods to the publish class news to be automatically posted on the front page of J30.org. You will also be able to subscribe to the news feeds using browsers, iPhones, Blackberrys and other PDAs.
The new system has a floating design. If you use a browser in resize mode, you’ll notice that pages automatically shape to fit the window size. This will help as we all have different screen sizes to it make our programming efforts a bit easier.
We have added the US Sailing and the ISAF new feeds. As these sailing organizations add more content, it will automatically appear on J30.org. You’ll get the latest and greatest news on the class web site.

With the growth of social media, we expect the new web site to integrate nicely with Facebook and other networks. Many do not know of the J30 Sailing group on Facebook. If you are using Facebook, we recommend that you join the group.
Please continue to help us proof the new web site by visiting http://J30.us/blog. If you see any formatting or content errors, let us know.

Bill@j30.us and Dave@j30.us

The new page Looks great!
Nice work

Pretty, can't wait.

nice, big improvement....

Ok folks - Just letting you know that Dave Erwin did all the heavy lifting on getting the new class website up and running. My contribution was merely some comments and suggestions on stuff he put up behind the scenes.

The way Dave set this up allows everyone to be more "interactive" and should help feed J/30 and related sailing information to whatever device you use for browsing (Computer, Blackberry, iPhone, PDA, etc.)

What we need is some active participation by class members with interesting content. Feel free to contribute stories, and pictures for any relevant J/30 stuff - J/30 One Design, PHRF Cruising, and any other content that people would enjoy.

So - Thanks Dave Erwin for bringing us into the 21st century with the new web technology.

Information and "Articles of Interest" from the really old class website (1997-2000) has been formatted for the new J/30 Class website and dropped into the new menu structure. There shouldn't be any more dead links.

Please report any dead links or errors if you find any. There is a wealth on knowledge in some of these old articles, but the information is dated and really should be brought up to date with current information. If anyone would like to research and update information for any of these pages, please contact me or Dave Erwin. Go to the J/30 Class Website, and look in the menu structure under "Info", "Articles of Interest".

There are various rig tuning guides available for the J/30. The class website has been updated to include the guides from Banks Sails, Shore Sails, UK-Ulmer Sails, and North Sails. The copy of the North Sails document has missing data in some of the tables, so if anyone has that, please sent it to me and I'll update the website.

All but the Shore Sails guide are available online for viewing and to download for printing. Since the Shore Sails guide was an old scanned document, it's only available to download.

Link to web page

Or from the J/30 Class website menu select "Info", "Articles of Interest", "J/30 Rig Tuning"

Looking at the "Crew Assignments" under 'Info' / 'Articles of Interest', the text does not wrap, so much of the info is hidden.

I also have a 64MB pdf Yanmar shop manual that would be useful to keep and make easily available on the web site. Not sure how to upload that big of a file though. Perhaps you already have it or a link to one, but it would be good to get one on the site for safe-keeping. Also, 14MB pdf Service Manual, 2.6MB pdf Operation Manual, 500KB pdf Parts List, 23KB .xls parts list, 75KB pdf parts list.

Thanks for you efforts to consolidate this valuable information.

Al - I checked out the "Crew Assignments" on my PC using Firefox 3.54 and IE6.0. It looks fine with those. What browser are you using?

Look at these links and let me know if they are the same documents:
Yanmar Operation & Maintenance Manual for 1GM, 2GM, 3GMD, 3HM (PDF)
Yanmar 2GM Parts List one page summary (PDF)
Various Yanmar Links Including Service Manual (Dutch Website)

Email me anything that isn't there and I'll host it.

I am using IE7. The article mentioned is the only one I could find where the problem is apparent.

The manuals you have links to, are the same as those that I have. Are they available on the new web site?

Al

Guys- great work on the site. It's vastly improved. I have a fair bit of professional experience with social media and how to leverage it to build vibrant communities incl. free tools for live podcasts/chats, etc. So, if I can be of help of offer access to some of these tools to conribute to the community, let me know.

thanks, Jeff

Jeff - you and Dave Erwin need to connect. Dave's a professional CIO and knows the technology. I'm just a hacker. Dave's got a major system upgrade going on this week so has been ignoring us. Once he reads this, I'm sure he'll contact you.

Al - I'll make sure all the Yanmar links are added to the J/30 web site so we don't loose the information.

Can somebody else who has IE7 look at the page that Al references in his post above and let me know if you have problems? I can't recreate it. I have a PC at home with IE8.0 that I'll try tonight.

Al reported a wrapping problem on the J/30 Crew Assignment page with IE7.0 - I was able to reproduce the problem with IE8.0 at home. This has been fixed.

I also added all the Yanmar links to the Diesel Engine Maintenance page under the "Articles of Interest" menu on the J/30 Class Website.

There's a bunch of old pictures on both the j30.org and j30.us server, some dating back to the 1980s. We didn't want these to fall into digital exile, so have installed a photo gallery application that allows people to browse the images. The photo gallery is available from the menu off the J/30 Class Association website by selecting Photos.

Here's the challenge....

Don't let history get lost. If you see some photo(s) that bring back memories, please post your story on The Smack section of the forum with a link to the photo(s).

We've added a new page and menu item to the class website. Look on the main menu under "Class" and you'll see a new entry for "History". Currently this lists all of the past J/30 Class Association presidents. Over time we'll develop some text to better document the history of the J/30 Class.

Thanks to Bob Rutsch for the history update!

Tom Babbitt, the J/30 Class Association Past President (1982-1983) provides some great memories from the early days of the J/30 Class. His story is on the front page of our class blog, and permanently stored on the Class History Page.

Thanks to Phil Heldrich who mailed me the North Sails J/30 Quick Tuning Guide V1.0, I have added it to the class website with the other tuning guides. It is available at the J/30 Rig Tuning page. On the main menu for the class website, mouse over "Info" then "Articles of Interest" and click on "J/30 Rig Tuning"

The full North guide online (http://j30.us/blog/?page_id=328#North) has a bunch of blanks (its the same on the .doc download).

It says things like: "At this point your mast should be set up with __- ___” of prebend in the mast"

Anyone have the missing values for these blanks?

Thanks - Dan

We've added a new page and menu item to the class website. Look on the main menu under "Info" and you'll see a new entry for "J/30 Drawings and Files". This collects many of the useful files people have uploaded on the forum and puts them in one place.

If you find another file or have one that you think should be uploaded, please click on the link in that page to notify us. This may include reference to a file that exists already on the website, but may be more convenient to include in the list.

Here is the direct link to the J/30 Drawings and Files page

The Yanmar 2YM20 operations and service manual links have been added to the Diesel Engine Maintenance page under the "Articles of Interest" menu on the J/30 Class Website.

The page now includes resources for Yanmar 2GM, 2QM and 2YM series engines.