RJ Kikuchiyo
RJ Kikuchiyo wrote about the SL Coast Guard:
“… As a continuation of a personal and public mission I have endeavored to promote safe boating in SL just as I do in RL. The professionalism and service that I have witnessed from the SLCG staff has only earned more respect from me for the education and [...]

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Big Bots

Whenever I log in, I usually get this announcement in the right upper corner of my screen that tells me how many are online at the moment . As you can see, 68,719 were online when I took the picture . I have to admit however that I never questioned what that number represented, or asked “68,719… [...]

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A J-Classic
Last evening Armchair Binder, Kentrock Mesmer and I stopped over at the Trudeau yacht yard to see what’s new, and we got a chance to speak with Jacqueline Trudeau about her next boat!
The boat is still in “alpha” and isn’t scripted yet. However the hull is mostly complete, the mast is stepped, and the sails are set.  Let me tell [...]

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In a few days 2008 will draw to a close, and another annual chapter of SL sailing history will reach it’s conclusion.
Some time ago, Taku Raymaker told me he felt this New Year was particularly significant.  Waypoint Yacht Club had just turned one year old, and in that very short time it had earned the [...]

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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 about it [...]

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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 boat wind [...]

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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: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie [...]

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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 all [...]

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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 action while [...]

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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 what you’re [...]

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