From the monthly archives:

November 2007

New Regatta Added to SYC Schedule

November 26, 2007

New event in SYC at “GMT compliant” time…. Great news for sailors from European and African coutries:  every sunday morning (your time), new sail boat regattas will occur at Hollywood – Starboard Yach Club. Specially dedicated to GMT, GMT+1 and GMT +2 time zones, races will start at 1.30 AM SLT. First races will use [...]

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News Roundup

November 23, 2007

    My trip to Egypt was wonderful beyond words, but I will try. Grin. I have uploaded the beginnings of a MarkTwain White in Egypt website. I encourage you to make use of the “comments” section you find throughout the site.     Now that the Tako Cup has concluded there are two excellent [...]

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Under a Pirate Sky

November 16, 2007

The numerous designers and organizers and patrons of sailing in SL have done a grand job of bringing us as close to the RL experience of sailing as is technologically feasible…given what we have to work with. A big part of sailing – the sense of community, the thrill of competition – stems from what [...]

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Tako Cup 2007 Video Premieres!

November 16, 2007

Another Surfwidow Beaumont Masterpiece.

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Bend it like Beckersted

November 12, 2007

On Friday afternoon Bismark Sea was awash with Tako sails as the usual suspects once again converged on the NYC start line for Friday “Last Call” Tako Races.   As usual, the group of diehard sailors was pretty impressive:  Oliphant Ming, Liv Leigh, YumYum Divisidero, Jeff Abruzzo, Hpathe Boucher, Francois Jacques, AiLi Ling, Chaos Mandelbrot, and Svar Beckersted [...]

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Armchair Binder wins Tako Cup 2007

November 11, 2007

Under treacherous SL conditions and unstable Linden seas, Armchair Binder today prevailed over Hans Zinnemann 3:1 to take the Tako Cup 2007 by a unanimous decision of the Race Committee. The sea conditions today often made the final match more about survival skills than racing tactics. Over the next few days we’ll be posting many [...]

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Pure Innovation (and proud of it)

November 2, 2007

Everywhere we turn these days…the word “innovation” applied to all manner of things from kitchen sponges to plasma televisions. Everyone and everything is “innovative” no matter how mundane or, at the other end of the spectrum, technically complex. More often than not these innovative products and services in the marketplace are, in large part, derivative…they [...]

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