From the monthly archives:

February 2009

The envelope, please…

February 26, 2009

Mowry Bay, Mainland Feb. 25, 2009 Mowry Bay Yacht Club is pleased to announce that three legends in the SL Sailing Community have agreed to present the three trophies at the conclusion of the Mowry Sprints. Francois Jacques, Jacqueline Trudeau, and MarkTwain White will join Saxxon Domela to present the winners their hardware. “Each of [...]

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Sailing out of the box

February 25, 2009

Blake Bounding Box Buoy Blues Over the past week a number of sailors commented about extra difficulty they experienced rounding the race marks in Blake Sea.  While making a turn, the boats would clearly seem to hit the mark, even though there appeared to be substantial space between the boat and the marker buoy  (See the [...]

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Takos Tangle

February 22, 2009

 Tako Toreodores Today Saxxon Domela announced the final schedule for the Mowry Sprints Regatta set for March 7, 2009. Mowry Sprints March 7 2009 Schedule 12:00 Live Music: RockPianoman 12-1:00 12:15 Skippers meeting at the Cloud 12:30 Jacqueline Trudeau Introduces her newest creation 12:35 ACC Boat Parade 12:44 Fly Over 12:45 Racers Rez 12:50 Practice [...]

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Touring for beginners: Around Nautilus with Orca

February 21, 2009

(Editor’s note: I’m delighted to welcome Orca Flotta as a contributor to SLSailing.com. Orca needs no introduction, but if you’re new to the SL Sailing community you can get to know Orca by reading Delinda Dyrssen’s August 2008 interview . Welcome aboard, Orca!  /Jane Fossett, Editor SLSailing.com )  Touring for beginners: Around Nautilus with Orca [...]

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Mowry Sprints

February 18, 2009

  NOTICE OF RACE Mowry Sprints Mowry Bay Yacht Club, March 7 2009 Eligibility:  The regatta is open to boats of the TAKO Class whose owners are properly registered with the Race Committee. Registrants must be from a Yacht Club or Sailing Club in Second Life.   One Male and One Female Avatar from each club will be [...]

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BLAKE SEA UPDATE #1

February 13, 2009

Welcome to the first of what will be many Blake Sea Updates. This semi-column, semi-announcement page will work hand in hand with two new features that will appear soon on the United Sailing Sims Web site at http://unitedsailingsims.com. The first feature will be called the Blake Sea Chronicles and will be my blog about the [...]

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Getting Out (part 1)

February 4, 2009

Note: This installment of Cruising comes without photography.  I was doing this cruise solo, and mostly on a semi-spur-of-the-moment, to clear my mind about some things, and only decided to write about it later.  But, as you shall see, it needs a return trip and I’ll remember my camera that time.  So the below is [...]

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FREE SEAS FOR ALL!

February 2, 2009

Below is a great article from Jane dealing with the issue of free sailing on the mainland. It’s something severy SL skipper would love to have: free, unfettered, non-banned, clear, hassle-free open waters across the entire SL grid: east, west, north and south. I want to direct everyone to a topic on the SL Sailing [...]

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Fractal Follies

February 1, 2009

After sailing with the Mowry Bay Cruising Club this past week on their inspection tour of waters around Nautilus City, Chaos Mandelbrot was still in his ”intrepid explorer mode.” Rather than return to the safe confines of his dock and moorage (which he made doubly secure by adding a personal breakwater), Chaos decided to turn his vessel Northward and venture into unknown territory, [...]

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