Welcome to this new column devoted to the less well known world of the Big Cat Cup. The Big Cat Cup is a smaller and less well known cup than the Flying Tako Cup or the recent vast Flying Fizz World Cup each of which have legions of participants. Each series of the Big Cat [...]

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Over the past six weeks of Fizz Cup sailing, we’ve all watched as nearly 6 dozen sailors competed in hundreds of races spread over four large sailing communities. The size and global expanse of the competition truly merits the title of “World Fizz Cup.”
So much great sailing took place, that I fear many truly great [...]

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A lot has been said about the 2008 World Fizz Cup in these pages.
As Rear Admiral MarkTwain White predicted long ago, Fizz ‘08 has turned out to be the largest and the best organized sailing competition — by far — in the history of Second Life sailing.
This past weekend saw an intense [...]

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Yes MTW Productions knows they got it backwards. They released the Silver Cup finals video BEFORE the semi-finals. That’s indie film makers for you. Anyway, below is the newly uploaded video of the event. It also showcases some special effects. If you click on the screen (but not on the play button) you will go [...]

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The World Fizz Cup Silver Cup finals was held on Saturyday May 24. We are uploading the video on the finals before the video on the semi-finals so that we can get it out before the Gold Cup competition occurs. The semi-finals will be the next video released by MTW Productions. Although you can click [...]

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Here is a short video of some of the Skutsjesilen last Sunday morning. A good reminder here in of the tonnage rule. The bigger boat has the right of way, and if you don’t believe that, just try to move the bigger boat out of the way. GRIN

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(The wind articles will continue next, but I just had to publish this, since it has been waiting very patiently.)
Don’t ask, don’t tell?
How do you learn to sail better or race faster? The same as “how do you get to Carnegie Hall”, right? “Practice, practice, practice”. Well, yeeeessss, but what about asking questions of those [...]

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Here is some video from the Silver Cup Quaterfinals.

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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 [...]

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Although Rear Commodore White was on shore leave Saturday, five stalwart skippers converged on Starboards Yacht Club that morning to toast him in absentia and race the Passages Course.

Epicurus Emmons and ahjep Kattun won the dice toss for first and second starting positions. They decided to compete sailing Daemon Shepherd’s new Green Turtle Tjalk. Ahjep [...]

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