Five Weeks to Second Sol Regatta!
Reblogueado desde Metaverse Sailing: Woots! The Second Sol Regatta is still five weeks away, but plans are heating up, and all the details are falling into place. Second Sol is a Sail4Life fundraising regatta that will cover two weekends, from June 15-June 23; you can read all about it here. I wanted to take a moment today to … Lee más
Sail4Life plans 2013 Second Sol Regatta
Reblogueado desde Metaverse Sailing: Friend? Can we talk? Is your romance with virtual sailing losing it’s lustre? Are the usual griddy races depressing you, leaving your bowsprint retracted And your mainsail flapping aimlessly? Well sailor, never fear. Sail4Life is here to help. We have a therapeutic intervention planned to get you off that barstool, out of … Lee más
Danshire Yacht Club Gets a Makeover
Reblogueado desde Metaverse Sailing: I wanted to take a moment to give a huge shout-out to Elbag Gable and RJ Kikuchiyo for their wonderful help expanding and remodeling Danshire Yacht Club in Knaptrackicon. Knaptrackicon Knaptrakicon sits in the middle of Nautilus between Bingo Strait and Dire Strait, and it includes the major channel that connects the … Lee más
Sexy Sixty
Reblogueado desde Metaverse Sailing: In the summer of 2009 Corry Kamichi launched her JMO-60; it quickly became my all-time favorite Wildwind monohull. The JMO-60 was beautiful, blazingly fast, and chock-full of nice details and racing options. Nonetheless, four years have gone by, and that’s a long time in SLSailing. This ocean racer was clearly due for a refit. … Lee más
Hotlap Handicaps for April
Reblogueado desde Metaverse Sailing: I’ve been away quite a bit recently, so I have lots of catching up to do here over the next few weeks.
I’ll begin with a quick update and reminder about Hotlaps! :-) Hotlaps 2013 is a format that lets sailors build sailing skills and have fun by doing solo practice runs and sharing the … Lee más
Don and Roan Update
Reblogueado desde Metaverse Sailing: Yesterday Roan Blackburn posted an in-world announcement updating sailors about Don Berthios’ recent activities. I’m happy to repost her note here. Roan said: *** Don is covering the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup Selection Series in San Francisco this week, where teams of young sailors from around the world are competing … Lee más
Adjustment Bureau
Reblogueado desde Metaverse Sailing: On February 14 a handful of hardy sailors converged on North Sea’s Breadnut raceline for a fun, mixed fleet race. We did two heats on the North Sea Hotlaps course, and everyone sailed a different boat class. Since the sim conditions were pretty good, I thought it might be interesting to look at … Lee más
ReneMarine Presents the RM12 Tofinou – Marina Sport Racer Sailing Club
ReneMarine Presents the RM12 Tofinou – Marina Sport Racer Sailing Club. ReneMarine, Jethro2112 Sands & Rene Underby ReneMarine Proudly announces The RM12 Tofinou. Another new offering in the ReneMarine Yacht Builder Line fine boats. Seats Three Passengers and the skipper. She’s 15 Meters Long with a 4 meter beam. Featuring … Lee más
Waypoint Sails New York 32
Reblogueado desde Metaverse Sailing: Commodore Taku Raymaker used Waypoint’s racing timeslot on Sunday to showcase the new 2.0 upgrade for Maiko Taurog’s ‘Galiko’ New York 32. The Galiko is modeled after Olin Stephens’ 1935 design for the New York Yacht Club, where the boat was the successor to Herreshoff’s legendary New York 30; Stephens gave the NY32 … Lee más
Hotlaps 2013 Progress
Reblogueado desde Metaverse Sailing: The Hotlaps 2013 lap entries are growing; in the first nine days, seventeen skippers logged a total of eighty-six laps that are split across the four courses. The skipper’s names are listed in the box to the right, and the colors match the time-trial entries that are included on the summary … Lee más