Yes MTW Productions knows they got it backwards. They released the Silver Cup finals video BEFORE the semi-finals. That’s indie film makers for you. Anyway, below is the newly uploaded video of the event. It also showcases some special effects. If you click on the screen (but not on the play button) you will go [...]

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The World Fizz Cup Silver Cup finals was held on Saturyday May 24. We are uploading the video on the finals before the video on the semi-finals so that we can get it out before the Gold Cup competition occurs. The semi-finals will be the next video released by MTW Productions. Although you can click [...]

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 An Article by Nber Medici

I have been so pleased with the international character of sailing in SL (as well in RL…but that is another story). If you look at USS-SL, you see that we have a Japanese Yacht Club (thanks to the efforts of Taku Raymaker), a French Yacht Club (thanks to the tireless Bea [...]

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SILVER Cup semi finals were held by SYC this Saturday… and all spectators enjoyed the races…
9 sailors were competing in 3 semi-finals, with a Scoring System based on ISAF Appendix A, best 4 of 5 races (worst result is discarded).  In each semi-final, the winner advances to the SILVER - FINAL.
Semi finals results (pdf [...]

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Here is a short video of some of the Skutsjesilen last Sunday morning. A good reminder here in of the tonnage rule. The bigger boat has the right of way, and if you don’t believe that, just try to move the bigger boat out of the way. GRIN

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(The wind articles will continue next, but I just had to publish this, since it has been waiting very patiently.)
Don’t ask, don’t tell?
How do you learn to sail better or race faster? The same as “how do you get to Carnegie Hall”, right? “Practice, practice, practice”. Well, yeeeessss, but what about asking questions of those [...]

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Here is some video from the Silver Cup Quaterfinals.

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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 [...]

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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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SILVER Cup quarter finals were held by SYC this Week End..
18 sailors were competing in 3 groups of 6, with a Scoring System based on ISAF Appendix A, best 4 of 5 races (worst result is discarded).  In each group, the 3 top ranked of them advance to the SILVER semi finals
In group 1 [...]

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