The NYC Bismark Sea Start Line has moved! (Just a bit)
After more discussion than the topic probably deserved, NYC today moved the Bismark Sea Start Line (slightly). It’s a small change and you might not notice the difference. However the new location should reduce traffic jams and tacking collisions when several boats are racing. In case you keep track [...]

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 The Autumn regatta series for the Zinnemann Cup is in full swing, and I had a chance to watch the races last Thursday over at the Americas Cup Anywhere Race course.
The Zinnemann-40 Catamaran is the creation of Hans Zinnemann. Everyone reading this website… all three of you… already know I think HZ is pretty fantastic. [...]

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Glida Pilote is usually in charge of the Friday Tako Races at NYC. However this week, while Glida is away, this supreme responsibility fell to Jane Fossett and Oliphant Ming.
Although Glida often serves up a Friday menu of marathon courses and Force ten winds, Fossett opted for a kinder, gentler race dancecard, chosing four races on the [...]

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As many sailors will recall, the original TruCor Beach Cat was launched seven months ago as part of a charity fundraiser jointly sponsored by NYC, SYC, MBYC, and KS. The boat was an instant success, and bright beach cat sails are a common sight skimming across the waters of Second Life. The skipper and crew animations, bright colors, [...]

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OKOK… a little hot gossip.
 Our roving reporters tell me that JeanCarlo Kepler’s been quietly training behind the scenes on his ACA32. JeanCarlo usually sails with M1sha Dallin’s TYC race fleet, and M1sha is SL Sailing’s ACA32 Maestro.
Here’s a view I caught of the Kepler boat doing solo laps in Empress Augusta Bay this morning. When JeanCarlo [...]

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I had a chance to watch part of yesterday’s ACA32 races at NYC. Cynthia Centaur is the Race Director for this weekly series, and the start gun usually goes off at 11:00am each Tuesday.

 This year’s ACA Cup contenders Cynthia Centaur and M1sha Dallin skippered their ACA32 racers. Epicurus Emmons, another contender from the 2007 ACA Cup, showed [...]

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Last evening, members of the big-boat race fleet converged once again on Bismark Sea to share stories, watch the sun set, and put their racing mettle to the test.
Three races were held, using what’s become a familiar theme: the B-1a race course with ‘standard’ NYC race wind (spd 11). If you think the standard B-1 [...]

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I’m going on a voyage. Wooot! And what a voyage it will be. From Alexandria all the way up to the site of the second cataract and the magnificent Abu Simbel, I will be immersed in Egypt and its history for 17 glorious days. Well, maybe not so glorious: “Day 12 which tomb is this?”.
What’s [...]

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My passion for sailing both in RL and SL often takes flight in photography. Capturing images of sailing craft has, for reasons that are more instinctive than conscious, always spoken to the artistic and aesthetic side of the sailor in me. But the sense of satisfaction taken in review of a perfect shot soon fades…unless [...]

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After many weeks of fierce Tako Cup racing, only two sailors are still standing: Armchair Binder and Hans Zinnemann. On November 11 they’ll go head-to-head, and the winner takes home this year’s Cup. Armchair and Hans are as different as night and day; their final matchup promises to be electric.  Armchair’s the American entry, and [...]

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