From the monthly archives:

February 2008

Passages Postponed to March 8

February 29, 2008

While preparing for the new Passages Race, we discovered a problem with the Start Line script that causes errors in race wind. The error occurs in all boats, but is worst on the Passages Line when sailing a large boat like the Trudeau Tradewind. Thank you to Cynthia Centaur for figuring this out, and coming up [...]

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Passages Rules Updated

February 26, 2008

There has been some significant updating to the Passages rules. The version here on COM has the new rules marked in green. The new rules are also available from the Rules notecard giver in Passages Pub (without the highlighting , though). Photo credit: Transparent Banshee

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The Launch Video

February 24, 2008

Jacqueline Trudeau launched the Tradewind brigantine today in Trudeau Cay before an audience of more than a hundred residents filling two sims and overflowing into a third. Here is the first of two videos covering the event. Crank up the volume for best effect. Your comments are appreciated.

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Passages Launched

February 23, 2008

On one of the stormest days on record in Second Life the Passages Course and Passages Pub were launched. In a near melt down day for the grid over two dozen people gathered at the new Passages Course and Pub to learn from MarkTwain White how the new system works. Four beautiful pre-release Tradewind square-masters lined [...]

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Passages Course and The Passages Pub to Open

February 19, 2008

In light of the imminent release of Jacqueline Trudeau’s Tradewind brigantine (see Editor’s Note below), Starboard’s Yacht Club announces the opening of the Passages Pub and the launch of the Passages “Course” in the United Sailing Sims of SL. The grand opening will be this Saturday, February 23 at 9:00AM. The Pub will serve as the gathering place and information center [...]

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Events and Articles of Note

February 18, 2008

  Events in SL Sailing continue at a faster pace than Jane and I can keep up with sometimes. The USS-SL has experienced explosive growth in the past month or so. Hot on the heels of the addition of eight racing sims from Svar Beckersted appearing in the heart of the USS racing area, the [...]

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Nber, Hollywood, Tiny Tako’s and MTW

February 18, 2008

I finally got to sit down and talk with Nber Medici. She may not remember this but she was on my boat as an instructor when I took my first lesson in SL sailing almost a year ago at Starboards yacht Club. We sat down at her and MarkTwain White’s home on Holly Kai…. Delinda [...]

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Second Wind

February 18, 2008

  Ready to hear more about how race wind works? This time I’ll answer more of the questions I posed in my first article. So you don’t have to jump back and forth, I’ll repeat each question in bold before I give an answer. And for those who suffered flashbacks of high school math classes [...]

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Up The River (Mowry to Alviso)

February 10, 2008

“Is this Amaya?” she asked. I nodded, crossing my arms as I stood on the Scafell stone dock, watching the wavelets ripple against Amaya‘s green hull. For this trip, a sort of zig-zag around the inner seas of Sansara was the general idea (we had no idea exactly what places we would visit while there, [...]

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New Information About the Passages Course

February 9, 2008

An important dispatch has been published on the Forum regarding the Passages Course and can be found here. – MTW

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