Here is a video from the Connection event that took place on June 25, 2008. Watch in high resolution if your bandwidth supports it. Click on image to go to it. Please rate and comment.

In a few days MTW Productions will upload its coverage of the fleet sail and ribbon cutting in Union Passage from [...]

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Here’s a video from the last couple of day’s activities as we await the coming of the connection.
Please go to the YouTube site and both comment and rate this video.

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They are lining up in Osprey Reef and Bulia sims for the anticipated opening of Union Passage connecting the western and southern USS-SL. Photos in Bulia this morning show a growing tent city of skippers itching to be the first to cross the border. Likewise skippers in Osprey Reef are toeing the start line.
It’s understandable given [...]

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Welcome to this new column devoted to the less well known world of the Big Cat Cup. The Big Cat Cup is a smaller and less well known cup than the Flying Tako Cup or the recent vast Flying Fizz World Cup each of which have legions of participants. Each series of the Big Cat [...]

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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 [...]

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Here is archival footage of the Gold Cup Quarter Finals of the World Fizz Cup. This is part one. What is archival footage? It contains the same great video coverage as our full coverage but at a medium resolution. Also there is no attempt to create pacing and/or use interesting special effects to enhance the [...]

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Over the past six weeks of Fizz Cup sailing, we’ve all watched as nearly 6 dozen sailors competed in hundreds of races spread over four large sailing communities. The size and global expanse of the competition truly merits the title of “World Fizz Cup.”
So much great sailing took place, that I fear many truly great [...]

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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 [...]

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