SL Relay For Life Sailboat Races

...guh - "closed for maintenance"!..

...i guess it's staying down right through the closing ceremonies...whose idea was it to bring the grid down right during the least-trafficed-hours, erm, nevermind...

...if it's any consolation, i dreamt about helping out - what does it mean that 'il buono, il brutto, il cattivo' was playing the whole time in my dream as we worked the event?..

Holy Cow! Didn't we do two days of RFL racing last year? With getting ready for the Cup races yesterday and the aftermath of that, I decided to put some time in on RFL this AM. Obviously I have not been monitoring the forum this week.

Well it was fun to design the course with its dangerous reef and rocks. Would have been nice to have raced it. Oh well, there's always next year I guess.

...heheh - well, the 'reef' i thought was a very nicely-done sandbar!..it worked well, too: i'm generally pretty decent at running the shallows, and not only did it lure me in with its siren song, nearly all the way through before grounding me at the very end, but the more i struggled to break free the more hopelessly beached my boat became, to a ridiculous extent before i finally gave up...

...thanks everyone who put in hard work for the relay for life, and especially kanker for his dedication to pull an all-nighter on top of all that!..


















(did we manage donations from anyone at all besides from the the folks organising/staffing the event?)

When the sims open back up, could the first person who gets to the sailing venue please take a snapshot of the leaderboard by the start line and send it to me? We'll have to extend the time trial period, but I don't how long yet. I won't be on this afternoon, and I'm the only one who can turn off the time trial boats. I bet they decide to keep the sims open through today, maybe longer.

I think last year's RFL ran for about 14 hours - which is how long we sailed for too. This year's RFL was supposed to be 12 hours from opening ceremony to closing ceremony, but we scheduled the sailing from 7 to 5 (ten hours) so that people could attend the ceremonies.

The RFL kiosk on the dock had over L$27000 in donations when the sims went down. The two one-of-a-kind RFL Takos had bids for L$12500 combined. A handful of people participated in the time trial, but hopefully more will try it this morning until whatever time we decide to stop it.

Thanks for building the course, Mark. Thanks to everyone who took shifts, and made donations, and helped test the course. I think I'll take a nap while SL is healing itself.