From the monthly archives:

October 2008

BLACK MONDAY Update

October 31, 2008

I am getting a lot of questions about where things are at relative to LL’s BLACK MONDAY announcement of big changes in OS sims. I know that Jane has a full article coming, but I want to step in now and provide a update on events. Here is the latest as of Friday October 31 [...]

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Winds of Autumn

October 31, 2008

SailOnline.org by Nomad Zamani (Jane Fossett: This past week the Forum’s had a very lively thread about SailOnline.org. Armchair started the thread, and in about a week there were seven pages of posts, and over THREE DOZEN of our SL skippers signed up to try SailOnline.org and race against each other. I don’t know much [...]

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By the Numbers

October 27, 2008

Small but Speedy Cat Boat A few days ago I promised you a “Speed Over Ground” plot for the new Trudeau Leetle Cat. After a lot of tinkering, and considerable self-inflicted tsouris over the measurements, here’s the current chart I’ve got, comparing the Leetle Cat, Knockabout, and Twenty. All measurements were done using a fixed [...]

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Sunday Sightings

October 27, 2008

Halloween Movie Marathon Woots to Beejee Boucher and Surfwidow Beaumont! As we count down the days to Halloween, they’re getting in the mood by putting on a marathon horror movie fest over in Quoddy Head sim. The series is entitled Hell O Ween at the Movies, and includes a series of scary cinema classics: monday: [...]

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Thursday doldrums

October 23, 2008

ACA goes soooo Santa Barbara Last year’s Americas Cup Anywhere32 -Second Life Cup was a milestone in SLSailing’s progress. I still carry around pictures of it in the back pocket of my profile, and I routinely give new sailors a link to Surfwidow Beaumont’s video so they can share in the excitement and see what SL Sailing’s [...]

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Founding and History of MBYC

October 21, 2008

by Saxxon Domela (ed. Jane Fossett) (Written January 2, 2008) In the dying days of 2005 near the Mowry-Selby border on the shores of Mowry Bay, a small, eclectic band of sailors gathered on Saxxie’s deck to plumb the depths of the last of the aftershave lotion. A winsome wench with willing eyes looked up [...]

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Mothgirl Talks Winds of Change Thursday at NYC

October 21, 2008

This past week, Mothgirl Dibou rolled out her new Wind, Wave and Current System. Moth’s been working on this for some time, and she’s shared many of her ideas and early models with sailors to get their input and feedback. Taku Raymaker’s fleet over at Waypoint were particularly involved recently, helping Mothgirl test out the [...]

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Monday dockside

October 20, 2008

******************************************************** Croozin’ A few weeks ago, several of us started a dialog about simple things we could do to encourage and support cruising in SL. I think we may have some agreement now, a few good ideas, and some practical steps we could take. I thought to list them here, so we can begin some [...]

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The Times They Are a Changin’
& Blowing in the Wind

October 19, 2008

For an old school Republican who has rued the day that the neo-conservatives took over the Grand Ol Party and pushed compassionate conservatives to the background (even while taking OUR mantle for themselves) I cannot tell you the joy I feel in the current state of affairs regarding the presidental election in the United States. [...]

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Shore news

October 19, 2008

New Feature I’d like to try a new feature for COM. I want a place to post short announcements, do some shout outs for sailors who’ve done good things, and maybe share stuff from my inbox of SL news, gossip, and ‘events of interest’ for sailors and the sailing community. Don’t tell me; I know [...]

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