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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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 runner [...]

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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.
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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 “Ratings” line just below [...]

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The fourth Passages contest was held on Saturday, March 29. Eleven boats sailed off into the treacherous waters of the Southern United Sailing Sims. Seven boats returned. The most interesting of the DNFs (did not finish) was two-time Passages winner Epicurus Emmons who in in a moment of panic (or temporary insanity) double clicked on [...]

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The third edition of Passages took to the waters of the Southern United Sailing Sims today when nine Tradewind brigatines set sail. Of the nine boats, one ended up retiring due to SL problems (Bea Woodget) and another (Kentrock Messmer) did not correctly complete his chosen course, but he finished with a great time. Grin.
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Ten boats set sail from Hollywood last Saturday morning. The morning was bright and clear. The crews were in high spirits. With that many Tradewind brigantines on the water it was no wonder that as race director I had my doubts how the start would go. Well, it went GREAT.
Before the crews raised anchor and [...]

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We have tweaked the Passages Rules and Regulations. The new rules can be found on the Rules and Regulation Page under the Passages section of this web site, here.
The main changes are:
1. The East option requires the addition of Start to South Rock before a captain heads for East Rock. The West option is unchanged [...]

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The inaugural running of the Passages Contest took place in USS-SL waters on Saturday when six Tradewind brigantine captains sailed from Santa Cruz sim across some 40 sims seeking the accolade of being the captain of the first crew to win Passages. The honors went to Oliphant Ming who sailed single handed and completed the passage [...]

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There has been some significant updating to the Passages rules. The version here on COM has the new rules marked in green. The new rules are also available from the Rules notecard giver in Passages Pub (without the highlighting , though).
Photo credit: Transparent Banshee

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Jacqueline Trudeau launched the Tradewind brigantine today in Trudeau Cay before an audience of more than a hundred residents filling two sims and overflowing into a third. Here is the first of two videos covering the event. Crank up the volume for best effect. Your comments are appreciated.

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