Everyone has a chance to shine like an Olympic champion on August 10 at SAIL ON. We are going to cover a regatta in an entirely new kind of sailing vessel, for SAIL ON at least. We will race RS/X windsurfer, the very class of windsurfer that will be raced at the Olympics in just [...]

[Read more →]

The Sailors’ Cove complex of 31 sims is about to join the United Sailing Sims of Second Life. The move will expand the USS-SL to 125 regions. The connection will take place when Union Passage region is dropped in north of Osprey Reef and east of Bulia.
The new sim, an open space sim, will be [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Today (May 15th) the third iteration of Second Convention commences at Artificial Isle. A virtual convention in Second Life with live music, sailboat racing, tugby, discussion panels and a celebrity roast (SLebrity Roast) of Marktwain White at 7pm PDT tonight.

The convention is three days in length and open to all to attend, if the [...]

[Read more →]

The Great Exodus and Raft Up
(The greatest photo op in SL Sailing History)
May 10, 2008
[Cross posted as SLSailing.ORG]
As fans of the great SL precursor Snow Crash are aware, The Raft is a huge group of boats and boat people who have lashed up to an aircraft carrier in the metaverse of Snow Crash. Now in Snow [...]

[Read more →]

In a surprise announcement, SYC Commodores MarkTwain White and Nber Medici this morning discussed their plan to transfer the management of Starboards Yacht Club to a newly appointed SYC Steering Committee headed by two new Commodores, Chad Sawson and Aislin Keynes.
Explaining this change, emeritus Commodore White briefly detailed the remarkable history of SLSailing’s success over [...]

[Read more →]

–WORLD FIZZ CUP —
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CUP SKIPPERS
Introduction
I would like to take this opportunity to clarify things and to put an end to some controversial discussions. I am of course talking about the “pumping” effect or “Fizz cheat” you have heard about — decisions must be taken quickly, and here they are, I will [...]

[Read more →]

Patrick Leavitt is the Linden owner of Sailor’s Cove/ Lawson Landing Estate; until yesterday he was also Commodore of Fishers Island Yacht Club (FIYC) (read below to see what happened). On April 17, Patrick met with SL Sailors and addressed a series of their questions regarding Sailor’s Cove Estate.
Jojamela Soon published a full transcript [...]

[Read more →]

Patrick Leavitt is the owner of the Sailor’s Cove/ Lawson Landing Estate; he is also Commodore of the new Fisher’s Island Yacht Club (FIYC) in Anchor Cove.
Patrick was not able to attend the open meeting held yesterday in Sailor’s Cove where Epicurus Emmons discussed FIYC’s sailing plans.
Since some sailors may wish to speak directly [...]

[Read more →]