From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Fizz Cup Video #1

April 27, 2008

Here is a video from yesterday’s World Fizz Cup action in Sailor’s Cove. If you click on the screen (not on the arrow part) you will be taken to the YouTube page for the video where you can click on “watch in high quality”.

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World Flying Fizz Cup 2008 – All qualification courses revealed… and more…

April 26, 2008

2008 World Fizz Cup – Qualification round 1 of 6- FIYC – FY04 Description: “Cruising in Sailor Cove”, very first race of the 2008 World Fizz Cup. Easy start for this very first race, a way to learn Fizz handling, sails settings, and get used of high speed (on this course, Fizz will go at [...]

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Passages #5 and #6

April 21, 2008

Our Passages contests on Saturday mornings are rapidly maturing into a staple of the SL Sailing scene. Passages #5 and #6 saw two first time winners joining Oliphant Ming and Epicurus Emmons who split the first four contests. In Week #5 Croco Capalini prevailed with an impressive 54.00 minute run, while Jane Fossett was our [...]

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The Times They Are a Changin’

April 20, 2008

It is so good to feel the renewed sense of excitement in the SL Sailing community. Congratulations to the folks at Fisher’s Island Yacht Club for their new club, their new leadership and their beautiful new clubhouse. Additionally, our Japanese sailing brothers and sisters have a new sim and clubhouse down in Newport Bay sim. [...]

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Passages

April 17, 2008

This video records a very small part of the action during the contest between 10 captains on the open sailing sims of the United Sailing Sims. Please leave a comment. I would appreciate it. You can watch a higher definition version of this video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW7Vw59tbN0 Click on the small television set icon on the [...]

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Fisher’s Island Yacht Club Meeting 1PM, April 14

April 13, 2008

Epicurus Emmons has asked COM to post the following announcement to the SL Sailing Community: Sailors meeting at Fishers Island Yacht Club, Monday 14 april 1 pm slt FIYC will open their Race Office at the new clubhouse at Anchors Cove. We have been working very hard behind the scenes lately. Now its time to [...]

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Second Sailing Wiki Launches

April 8, 2008

We’ve all seen it, and maybe done it. Someone IM’s an entire SL Group of sailors to ask a question like: “How do I use the start line?“, “How do I customize my Tako sails?” or “Where can I learn about gestures?” Hopefully a few sailors read the post and scramble through their inventory looking [...]

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From RL Sailing to Dancing for Cash

April 6, 2008

Anyone who has followed the SL sailboat racing scene knows there is an avatar out there who wins a whole lotta races. After talking with Armchair Binder I think I now understand why. Delinda Dyrssen: Armchair I understand you have a RL sailing background, tell me a little about it. Armchair Binder: I have lived near [...]

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