Sail with New Freebooters

I took a look around a few sailing blogs this morning, starting off in BlogSpot.com and occasionally following links out of BlogSpot blogs.
First, an editorial review from Publisher’s Weekly, appearing in a fishing blog, of the book At Sea in the City - New York from the water’s edge. The writer, a professor at the [...]

The first leg of the Volvo Ocean Race at sailonline.org was invaded by a large and chatty group of folks from virtual world Second Life’s sailing fraternity. Since then, I have had an exciting ride as a passenger on a wiz class dinghy, and several sailonline stalwarts have actually bought themselves boats and started learning [...]

I thought it might encourage you to come and join in the fun if I showed you what you couldn’t see in my earlier video. Here’s a Firefox/Fireshot screen capture of the sailonline.org navigator’s console that I have annotated:
I’ve given you a link rather than embedding it, so that it’s still big enough for you [...]

I can’t wait for Wednesday 19 Nov. At 12:00 UTC (what we used to call GMT), all my old pals will be lined up in Capetown ready to pit their wits against one another in navigating a boat to Cochin in India, on a simulator that uses real time genuine weather forecasts that are quite [...]

video by Mike K-H about sailing simulator sailonline.org