One of the highlights of the last week or two was a dinner cruise on the One And All, a brigantine that operates out of Port Adelaide. She's mostly used for sail training, but she does regular short cruises as well. Artyem and I went on a "Sunset Cruise", a 4-hour trip (including dinner) that goes out through the Port waterways and pootles around ( Read more... )

Much as I have been enjoying sailing in Second Life, sometimes it can be a tad aggravating. Today I have been trying to sail the newest addition to my little digital fleet - a Trudeau Tradewind brigantine - around the Passages course, a nice long racing course specially designed for this class of ship that should take around ninety minutes or so to ( Read more... )

I've been getting quite thoroughly sucked into the whole Second Life Sailing thing. I've bought several new boats - two dinghies (each with very different handling characteristics) and a beautiful classically-designed schooner, of which I shall say more in a moment ( Read more... )

I just thought I'd quickly share this snapshot I took of my latest SL acquisition, as viewed in the Windlight client:


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