Got your Sailing for Life 2008 teeshirt yet?
Well? What are you waiting for?

Relay for Life is a world-wide fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. In the past 20 years, RFL has raised more than $1.5 Billion USD for Cancer research, which is certainly nothing to sneeze at.

SL-RFL is equally impressive; it’s one of the largest charity fundraisers in Second Life. The RFL fundraising events are organized through a series of teams that represent all the different communities and motley interest groups that bring their distinctive character to this highly important effort.

For the last few years, the sailing community’s RFL Team’s been named Sailing for Life, and it’s prospered under the steady (and tireless) direction of Suzanne Zeluco. Last year Sailing for Life raised an amazing L$ 640,000 by sponsoring a series of fun events across all the Clubs, including running sailboat races, holding parties and auctions… and selling tee shirts, sails, and damn near anything else that wasn’t bolted down.

Sailing for Life 2008 is now underway, and that’s the 2008 Logo above. Please check out SZ’s recent announcement for all this year’s details.

After you do that, run (don’t walk… don’t even sail) over to her place in Caddo to grab a tee shirt or sails; all the proceeds will go to find a cure for cancer. It could be one of the best things you do all day. If you can’t make it to the SZ Designs Sail Loft, check out your favorite yacht club… chances are they have Sailing for Life kiosks and vendors!

And of course don’t forget your favorite nautical racing companies… I snapped the above candid picture of M1sha Dallin as she displayed SZ’s sails on two Domela Designs textured Tako hulls. (Come to think of it, is that how she wins all those races? I mean, do you think she rezzes several boats and then picks the one with the fastest logo?)

M1sha has versions of the sail for the Fizz, and Tacheshi Schnyder also has a unique set at Waypoint Yacht Club:

Sailing for life is just getting off the ground(or should I say jumping the waves?). Over the next several weeks, you’ll be seeing announcements for a number of events sponsored by various yacht clubs and sailing groups, that will eventual culminate in a final major SL-RFL weekend in late July.

Kudos to Orca Flotta and her compatriot Mowry Race Directors Julia Ceres and Tory Micheline. They were first out-of-the-blocks for RFL this year, scheduling a regular Saturday afternoon race on the Hepurn Line that benefits RFL!!! Go Mowry!!!!

And GO SAILING FOR LIFE!!!!!