Upcoming Events

Sanchon (98,26) 16.00-17.30 SLT
- Pixeleen Mistral

Vagabonds Yacht Club races in Sanchon sim and 20+ connected water sims for RL-style yacht racing. Bring your Flying Tako 2.x or 3.0, and sail round the buoys and round the continent. We continue Le Grand Prix de VYC with a great way to work on your open water sailing skills and racing tactics. See SL yacht racing at its most realistic with both beginners and SL's best sailors. Spectators welcome!

Hollywood (96,149) 14.00-16.00 SLT
- MarkTwain White

Our weekly regatta runs from 2PM to 4PM. Come and enjoy the fun.

If you are new to saiboat racing come and check it out. Our widow's watch above the Admiral's Daughter Pub is a wonderful place from which to watch and enjoy the races.

Buy a TAKO racing sailboat for as little as 1L and learn the very realistic sport of SL sailboat racing.

Sanchon (98,26) 7:00PM - 8:30PM SLT

This is the last VYC regatta for the month of february and since we break sailor rankings down by month this should be interesting... I expect to see Silkie and Mel match racing since they are the top contenders for the sailor of the month at this point...

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Vagabonds Yacht Club races in Sanchon sim and 20+ connected water sims for RL-style yacht racing. Bring your Flying Tako 2.x or 3.0, and sail round the buoys and round the continent. We continue Le Grand Prix de VYC with a great way to work on your open water sailing skills and racing tactics. See SL yacht racing at its most realistic with both beginners and SL's best sailors. Spectators welcome!

Sanchon (98,26) 4:00PM - 5:30PM SLT

Saturday we will march 4th into a new month of racing will a blank slate for the monthly sailor rankings

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Vagabonds Yacht Club races in Sanchon sim and 20+ connected water sims for RL-style yacht racing. Bring your Flying Tako 2.x or 3.0, and sail round the buoys and round the continent. We continue Le Grand Prix de VYC with a great way to work on your open water sailing skills and racing tactics. See SL yacht racing at its most realistic with both beginners and SL's best sailors. Spectators welcome!

Joiner (160,130) 19.00 SLT
- Kanker Greenacre

SLSF Meeting! Thursday! 7 pm! Joiner (160, 130)! Bring your own topics for discussion. Also, think of creative ways to spend SLSF funds. Everyone is welcome.

Hollywood (96,149) 14.00-16.00 SLT
- MarkTwain White

Join us for our weekly regatta in the fabulous Hollywood sim. Sail or spectate. This is THE place to be on Sunday afternoon.

Then stay and explore Hollywood (currently a candidate for BEST PRIVATE SIM in the MVA AWARDS contest) while waiting for the start of our OSCARS FORMAL BALL at 5pm.

Stop by the race instructions and course landmark dispenser at Sanchon (227, 92) to get the course. We are back to the Osondoson and back long course, but will retain the southeast wind.

Sanchon (98,26)
- Pixeleen Mistral

Vagabonds Yacht Club races in Sanchon sim and 20+ connected water sims for RL-style yacht racing. Bring your Flying Tako 2.x or 3.0, and sail round the buoys and round the continent. We continue Le Grand Prix de VYC with a great way to work on your open water sailing skills and racing tactics. See SL yacht racing at its most realistic with both beginners and SL's best sailors. Spectators welcome!

I have posted this to events for Thursday at 6 pm. If you are an experienced sailor come and practice racing or help provide lessons to some newer sailors.

http://secondlife.com/events/event.php?id=170505&date=1141891200

Stop by the race instructions and course landmark dispenser at Sanchon (227, 92) to get the course. The long course will run down the western side of the continent, using the same course as we did on tuesday. We'll see if Pacifien can win three regattas in a row.

- Pixeleen Mistral

In order to increase sailing opportunties to the many folks who have expressed interest in sailing but have not become involved, we are restructuring the events schedule. Here is the new schedule for Sunday sailing events in Hollywood:

1PM -- NOVICE SAILING LESSONS
This will begin each week with an classroom slide show lesson designed to get novices in the water and sailing. Although the basics will be covered in each lesson, the second half of the lesson will introduce a new topic each week.

Those who don't need the classroom lesson are encouraged to come and practice. If you are an experienced skipper you are asked to attend and offer your services as a ride along coach. We will provide instructions for both coaches and those that would like a coach to help them master the techniques of sailing the Tako sailboat. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS as coachs. Coaches need not be expert sailors. Any skipper who knows how to tack and trim sails with confidence can fulfill this role.

A NOVICE RACE WILL BE HELD AT THE END OF CLASS. ALL NOVICES THAT RACE WILL BE GIVEN $50L. THE WINNER OF THE NOVICE RACE WILL BE GIVEN A TAKO 3.1 AS A PRIZE!

2PM -- We will return to our popular FUN SAILING events at 2pm. SAILBOAT DRAG RACING, and SAILBOAT SOCCER are designed to be fun activites that teach you sailing skills. Also, one on one lessons can occur at this time.

3PM -- Our weekly regatta will be help in this time slot. If we have more than nine boats sailing we will divide the fleet into "A" and "B" fleets (based on turn out) and two trophies will be awarded.

Our weekly regatta this week is being held in Starboard Yacht Club's expanded five sim sailing complex. Come join us for this historic event.

Regatta at 3PM SUNDAY is preceded by NOVICE SAILBOAT LESSONS at 1PM and FUN SAILING at 2PM.

SYC's weekly regatta this Sunday (April 3) will be held on the Four Sims Course in Hollywood and the Channel Islands sims.

Maps of all four current courses are available at the SYC docks. Just click on a map and get a personal copy.

Novice Class at 1PM

Fun Racing at 2PM SAILBOAT DRAG RACING THIS WEEK

Regatta at 3PM

7 PM Sanchon sim: VYC tuesday race series continues

VYC saturday race series continues in Sanchon sim

The Sanchon Custom Sailboat Contest and Show

Since the early days of the Flying Tako, owners have been customizing the look of their boats, and with the newest versions of the Flying Tako there are even more possibilities. At the same time, the pirate sailors have been developing sailing warships that are also customized and use the same wind-driven physics as the flying tako. Now, for the first time, Vagabonds Yacht Club is sponsoring a 3-day boat show so that everyone can appreciate the creativity of the yacht racing customizers and the pirate warship builders, and the SL community can vote on who has the best flying tako and pirate ship.

Where: Sanchon sim

When: Saturday April 8 @ 6 pm SL time boat show contestants can rez their boats
(after the conclusion of the 4 pm Saturday VYC races in Sanchon).
Contestant boats should remain rezed at the Sanchon boat show docks until
6 pm Tuesday April 11 when we will tally votes received and declare winners.
We will then return the boats to their owners and run the usual VYC tuesday night sailboat races at 7 pm.

Categories:
* Best Flying Tako Sail Customization (L$500 prize)
* Best Flying Tako Hull Customization (L$500 prize)
* Best Flying Tako Overall (L$1000 prize)
* Best Pirate Ship Sail (L$500 prize)
* Best Pirate Ship Hull (L$500 prize)
* Most Deadly Pirate Ship Overall (L$1000 prize)

Note that all pirate ships entered in this contest must be able to sail under wind power and take part in the pirate battles held wednesday nights at 7 pm in Sanchon.

Starboard Yacht Club announces that their Thursday 6PM practice time slot will now host THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE RACES, a ROW regatta using the ISF rule book. See the announcement in the Rules sticky thread about the easy to use self-paced rules class now available 24/7 in Hollywood.

Let's get Thursday off with a bang. Load up some sailing gestures (also available at Starboards Yacht Club) and prepare for some exciting racing.

NOVICE Lesson and Race: 1PM
SAILBOAT FUN: 2PM (Sailboat Soccer in Santa Barbara).
WEEKLY REGATTA: 3PM (Santa Catalina Course)

Thursday 6PM: Thursday Night at the Races. Grand Tour Course.

Sunday Noon: (non-sailing) Easter Egg Hunt in Hollywood. $750L first place, $250L second place.

Sunday 1PM: Novice Class

Sunday 2PM: Sailboat Soccer

Sunday 3PM: Weekly Regatta. Grand Tour Course.

I've called an SLSF meeting this Sunday, 30 April, at 11.00 AM SLT to discuss this year's SL Cup regatta series, culminating June 10th and 11th. We will meet at the Angel's Gate lighthouse in Hollywood to accomodate SYC's Sunday afternoon activities.

Please bring your ideas regarding fleet organisation, seeding, venues, schedule, rules, committee structure, trophies, etcet. This will be an open discussion with the objective of establishing the race committee and general guidelines to be developed therein.

If you cannot attend and would like your position represented, please IM and send me a notecard detailing your thoughts.

Vagabonds Yacht Club will again sponsor a custom pirate and sailboat boat show May 20 in Sanchon sim. Calling all customizers and builders! Get ready to show off your best work alongside a scurvey crew of SL sailors and pirates. The boat show format will be similar to our previous show with boats exhibited on the water for several days and winners decided by popular vote. Categories will include customized Flying Tako sailboats, and wind-powered pirate warships.

Pacifien Massiel will run tonight's races. We'll start with some short courses in Sanchon, then try out a cool new mainland venue that Pacifien has been putting together up north.

Join us in Sanchon at 7 pm... for a sailboat racing adventure

Taking suggestions from a number of you, we have designed a new course designed to make best use of sims and increase strategies and tactics. Come and see the new TRADE WINDS COURSE in Hollywood.

Here is a map of the new Trade Winds Course and sailing dirctions:



Trade Winds Course
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ROUTE:
1. Start to the southwest
2 Circle Hollywood counterclockwise (three sides)
3. Go to red mark by various routes
4. Round red mark to port (left) and go to orange mark
5. Round orange mark to starboard (right)
6. Round Santa Cruz counterclockwise
7. Go to blue mark and round to starboard (right)
8. Go to purple mark by various routes
9. Round purple mark to port (left)
10. Go to green mark and pass on your starboard side (right)
11. Go to the EAST end of Catalina
12. Go to the white mark and pass it on your starboard side (right)
13. Go to yellow mark by various routes
14. Round yellow mark to your starboard side (right)
15. Go around the east side of Hollywood to the Fairway Passage
16. Go through Fairway Passage and finish