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Actually, the shape of things that have come. While re-doing the artificial reefs charts, I refined and extended the mapping plugin to the point where it seemed like it could do the shipwrecks charts as well. There is a structure and order to the artificial reefs while the shipwrecks are a big jumble, but I figured I'd give it a try, and it worked.
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https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1986/harker-s-island-rose-craft-2384729/
Expired link - Seeker for sale again.
Only $25,000. Sounds like they blew an engine. Pity, they put a lot of work into the old girl.
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Finished stubbing-in all the artificial reef pages, and integrating the dive sites and artificial reefs sections. It actually works better than the old hand-made site. Lots of nice automatic menus everywhere. Over 600 pages, and a lot more to go.
Still finding and fixing bugs, but the basic architecture is sound. I think the best plan is to put in blank pages for everything and get the 'tree' right. Then I can fill in the content, or 'leaves'.
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After the bad news of Dutch Springs closing, here is some good news. Delaware has sunk two new reefs - the Texas Star, and the John S Dempster Jr.
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I've been chugging away here.
The two Delaware reefs are now fully up to date, with the graphics re-sized for the new layout. I also built the structure for the New York reefs, after finding where New York is hiding all the data. And I do mean hiding, you'd be lucky to ever find it, I ran across it completely by accident. They have put it up in a way that is completely impenetrable to Google - you could search forever and never find it. Next up will be filling in all the missing New York reefs.
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While I was looking for something else, I stumbled across this old photo:
This is what it looks like when you sand through multiple layers of paint - psychedelic. I'm pretty sure the rail in the foreground belongs to the Seeker.
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I have restored the links in the dive sites charts. A lot of dog-work, but it's a lousy day outside, so why not? A while ago I worked out a way of doing it that WordPress won't eat, and did the Artificial Reefs. The clickable charts were always my favorite part of the site, and I really wasn't happy to give them up, although overall, the transition to WordPress was worth it. Now they are back, and better than before.
WordPress sites are all rather blah, in my opinion, like they were all designed by the same 8-year-old. It doesn't matter what theme you choose, they all look blocky and bland. My goal in WordPress was always to recreate the old html site. I think this is the last piece.
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I ran across this article that frankly shocked me until I read it. See the "Dive Planning" link below, second page.
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