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Table of Contents - User Manual Basic
Table of Contents - User Manual Advanced

• Quick Start Guide - Editing in progress
• Basic User Manual - Editing in progress
• Advanced User Manual
• Plugins (links)
• Development Manual (links)
• User Community
• Development Community
• Editor Manual - Editing in Progress
• Supplementary Hardware
• Supplementary Software

Current Stable Release: OpenCPN 5.8.4 released June 15, 2023

Release Summaries.

• OpenCPN 5.8.2 Stable Release released May 1, 2023
• OpenCPN 5.8.0 New Features released April 13, 2023
• OpenCPN 5.6.2 Maintenance released April 22, 2022
• OpenCPN 5.6.0 released December 5. 2021.
• OpenCPN 5.2.4 released October 18, 2020. Bug Fix, Graphical & UI Improvements.
• OpenCPN 5.2.0 Summary released July 15, 2020.
• OpenCPN 5.0 release Summary of Improvements
• OpenCPN 5.0.0 Summary released on March 23, 2019.

• Epub Book - Summary New features.
• Exploring OpenCPN (v4) Required reading YachtValhalla's PDF Tutorial for the new user.
• Exploring OpenCPN (v4) PDF Tutorial for the new user.
• Cruisers Forum. For help from a large community of Users
• Developers Manual For Advanced users with programming experience

• OpenCPN-4.8.2.7z (doc482.7z) 20mb HTML. Uncompress and use Browser.
• OpenCPN-4-8-6-Sept-18-18-compress-lossy-2-70pc.epub mb (16mb) Epub Book Reader likr Calibre Reader or Firefox Epub Extension.
• OpenCPN-4-8-6-Sept-18-18-medium-compressed.pdf (25mb) PDF OpenCPN User Manual Download
• Android OpenCPN User Manual App by David Register from Google Playstore. It has an embedded eBook reader.

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