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Hi Bruce,
The ability to do a refined search is great, but the results are presented as a list with only LOA and year built as data columns. In order to see additional info, it’s necessary to open each boat’s page individually. The compare feature is one step in the right direction, but only 3 boats can be compared at a time. My particular search revealed 60 hits!
A very useful feature then would be to provide the ability to export a CSV file of the search results, with *all* of the boat data in the CSV. It could then be imported into a spreadsheet for better comparison, sorting, deleting undesirables, etc.
What do you think?
Cheers,
OscarHi Bruce,
Thanks for chiming in. I’m always looking forward to new features on SailboatData. The “favorites” feature would be very welcomed.
I’m sure many, myself included, feel it would absolutely be fair for you to get some return on your hard work. Your site has become the Wikipedia of sailboats after all. In my case, I’m not a commercial user, but would be willing to pay a reasonable amount for refined searches with customizable results (say, in a CSV format?). Perhaps a monthly access fee?
Speaking of Wikipedia, maybe you can follow their model and ask for donations. (On the other hand, us sailors are notoriously cheap, so good luck with that…)
Fair winds
The use case I’m envisioning is, for example: give me all boats with SA/D between 18 and 21. The request would return all records that match, and the client code would populate a spreadsheet with all parameters for all boats in the list. I’m a programmer, but not really into database programming. It sounds like others here have a clearer idea how to achieve this. Perhaps Bruce @SailboatData can comment on providing DB read access. If so, let’s get this rolling!
