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Heard on the Dock

Adding It All Up – Feb 3 2008

April 8, 2009

  (Note: This article was lost from the site three months ago, but, mirabile dictu, some great sailors helped extract it from the background thermal radiation. I’ll post it here for a week, then retire it to the archives where people will be able to find it listed in proper temporal sequence.) Remember the Handicap Hotlaps project ? I talked about [...]

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Not Just Another Pretty Face – Jan 27 2008

April 8, 2009

Not Just Another Pretty Face This article was originally posted on January 27th, 2008 It was tragically lost from the site three monts ago, but  was recently extracted again from the ether. After a week up front here in the spotlights it will go back to its proper temporal sequence in archive.   When Verkin Ravin’s Tetra [...]

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A Leetle Better

April 7, 2009

 Leetle Cat Gets a Tune Up!  Three rather wondrous boats emerged late last summer from Trudeau Yacht Yard; the Twenty, the Knockabout, and the Leetle Cat. Each had distinctive features and responded to specific user requests. The Leetle Cat was the last to hit the water, and like all Trudeau boats, it was modeled after a particular real-life boat: The [...]

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Sailors Together

April 1, 2009

Second Life Sailing Association: A Reappraisal  1. SLSA Group I have been thinking about the Second Life Sailing Association (SLSA) recently, and what it means. In RL, the International Sailing Federation has been around for a little over a hundred years. It began because there was a recognized need to set basic standards and policies [...]

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Some Betas, More Buoys

March 28, 2009

Mo’ Beta Yesterday I told you about a wonderful new boat, the Shelley Fizz, that was just released for beta testing. Although still in testing, the boat is a colossal hit already, with impromptu brown-bag beta-regattas recruiting sim-busting crowds of sailors. I suspect the Shelley will sustain that start-up steam for some time, as in just 48 hours since the [...]

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FIYC Flaunts Fizz on Friday

March 12, 2009

  Fishers Island Yacht Club is honored to host the launch of Mothgirl Dibou’s new one design sailboat: THE FLYING FIZZ 3.01   Please join the entire sailing community tomorrow as  Mothgirl Dibou discusses the landmark features of her wonderful new boat, pick up one for yourself, and then stick around for the post-launch party!    Sailors Cove Main Dock 2:00pm SLT, Friday March 13 [...]

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Three is the Trick

March 4, 2009

Fizz 3 beta update Wooots!!!  Usually I don’t think it’s a good idea to write about beta boats, but this time I can’t help it.  Occasionally something in beta that is pretty great can become wonderous before your eyes, as adjustments are made, script problems get worked out, and new user features are added. That’s the [...]

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Sailing out of the box

February 25, 2009

Blake Bounding Box Buoy Blues Over the past week a number of sailors commented about extra difficulty they experienced rounding the race marks in Blake Sea.  While making a turn, the boats would clearly seem to hit the mark, even though there appeared to be substantial space between the boat and the marker buoy  (See the [...]

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Takos Tangle

February 22, 2009

 Tako Toreodores Today Saxxon Domela announced the final schedule for the Mowry Sprints Regatta set for March 7, 2009. Mowry Sprints March 7 2009 Schedule 12:00 Live Music: RockPianoman 12-1:00 12:15 Skippers meeting at the Cloud 12:30 Jacqueline Trudeau Introduces her newest creation 12:35 ACC Boat Parade 12:44 Fly Over 12:45 Racers Rez 12:50 Practice [...]

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Maps, Caps, and More

January 29, 2009

Nautilus-USS Ferry I rode on the Nautilus-USS ferry today.  I can’t say very much about it since it technically has not been announced yet, but I can tell you it exists. I guess that’s a step in the right direction! Around the time of the initial public announcement that USS was going to move to a new spot East of [...]

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