OK, I promised you two more reasons why I thought the TC 2007 was important. Here we go: 
#3: Racing Rules. MarkTwain White deserves another shout-out here for his emphasis on Racing Rules in TC 2007.
The goal of SL Racing, I guess, is to develop an online experience that closely matches a real-life sailboat race. [...]

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New event in SYC at “GMT compliant” time….
Great news for sailors from European and African coutries:  every
sunday morning (your time), new sail boat regattas will occur at
Hollywood - Starboard Yach Club.
Specially dedicated to GMT, GMT+1 and GMT +2 time zones, races will
start at 1.30 AM SLT.
First races will use our dear Takos 3.3, but we [...]

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My trip to Egypt was wonderful beyond words, but I will try. Grin. I have uploaded the beginnings of a MarkTwain White in Egypt website. I encourage you to make use of the “comments” section you find throughout the site.
 
 
Now that the Tako Cup has concluded there are two excellent video presentations of the event. [...]

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The Tako Cup 2007 is now in the history books, but I’m still musing about it. I think TC 2007 was a real watershed event that will have a lasting impact on SL racing; I don’t want it to slip by too quickly without some comment and discussion. To paraphrase Samuel Johnson (or maybe it [...]

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The numerous designers and organizers and patrons of sailing in SL have done a grand job of bringing us as close to the RL experience of sailing as is technologically feasible…given what we have to work with. A big part of sailing - the sense of community, the thrill of competition - stems from [...]

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Another Surfwidow Beaumont Masterpiece.

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On Friday afternoon Bismark Sea was awash with Tako sails as the usual suspects once again converged on the NYC start line for Friday “Last Call” Tako Races.
 
As usual, the group of diehard sailors was pretty impressive:  Oliphant Ming, Liv Leigh, YumYum Divisidero, Jeff Abruzzo, Hpathe Boucher, Francois Jacques, AiLi Ling, Chaos Mandelbrot, and Svar Beckersted all bellied [...]

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Under treacherous SL conditions and unstable Linden seas, Armchair Binder today prevailed over Hans Zinnemann 3:1 to take the Tako Cup 2007 by a unanimous decision of the Race Committee.

The sea conditions today often made the final match more about survival skills than racing tactics. Over the next few days we’ll be posting many of [...]

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WOOT!

Pardon me, I’m excited.  I had a chance to see the Friday PM Tako Races today at NYC.
Glida Pilote usually attracts a big fleet, and today was no exception.
Chaos Mandelbrot, Konradin Kappler, Francois Jacques, Glida Pilote, Glorfindel Arrow, Daizy Dovgal, Qwerty Freenote, and a new sailor, Frapp Graf, all came to test their speed, skill and [...]

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Everywhere we turn these days…the word “innovation” applied to all manner of things from kitchen sponges to plasma televisions. Everyone and everything is “innovative” no matter how mundane or, at the other end of the spectrum, technically complex. More often than not these innovative products and services in the marketplace are, in large [...]

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