Sailing in Second Life
There are many very active groups of people involved with sailing in Second Life.
Places to Sail
Starboards Yacht Club (SYC)is the oldest (formed in August of 2005) and largest Yacht Club in Second Life. Every Sunday at noon you can join a free Learn to Sail class. After a brief lecture, you will go "on the water" with a sailing coach. This is a great way to get into the sailing scene in Second Life. You can rezz your boat here and sail directly to the Blake Sea. There is a large marina and a marine mall for your shopping pleasure.
Tradewinds Yacht Club Is free to rezz your boat. Located at the north end of a huge body of water on the Mainland, has a boat store, is active with many boat builders and is home of the SL Sailing History Museum.
Blake Sea - Half Hitch This is a nice start to sail.
Marina "Free Adriatic" in Grant friendly Marina, it's always nice to do a fast fun race in the south or just cruise up to the north with some friends.
Nantucket Yacht Club (NYC) Located on the edge of Blake Sea and close to Nautilus Continent, NYC exists to encourage sailing in Second life.
Schiffsratten Yacht Club (SRYC) A German Yacht Club that organizes training courses and races. See Schiffsratten Blog for details.
Mango Yacht Club (MYC) Located at a 82 sim's beautiful tropical area of the Fruit Islands.
Sail Boats
Where to get a boat?
At Starboards Yacht Club (SYC) in Hollywood, you can get a free Shelly Fizz, a demo Fizz, a demo Jangars, AND a demo Tako. SYC is on the shores of the Blake Sea.
There is a real active boat builder scene. Boat types of various quality and prices are available.
simple first boat for free
Nantucket Yacht Club (NYC) as well as several other clubs offer the Shelly Fizz for free. The Shelly is a realistic sailboat, for beginners.
Other Resources
Sailing Wiki A wiki with information about sailing in Second Life. Available boats, sailing slSailing.org General Sailing Information plus forums.
slSailing.com Sailing News, reviews, blogs.
areas and clubs, .... Answers some of the questions below.
slSjp.net Second Life Sailing Japan.
slTYC.com Boat Builders news, Boat Shows, and Race Information.
Metaverse Sailing Exciting commentary
Do's & Don'ts
The ultimative "Do" is have fun! Be nice when possible and helpful.
The ultimative "Don't" is never ever click on moving vessels! That would stop them and may the sailor make forget the "Do's".
SL Sailing Pictures
Second Life Sailing, Ships & Boats
sl sail
Second Life Sports
Dil Spitz's Photos
todo's
- under Top 'Places to sail', all in alphabetic order, with links:
- start point for sailing,
- routes,
- Groups,
- Yacht clubs
- under vessels, alphabetic order of SL shipyard (slURLs)
--Dil Spitz 18:37, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Original Post
I have started this link and/or blog to Help us Novice Sailors in SL as to where in the SL world is the best place for Sailing. What are the best boats? Where is the quality water for sailing? What are the sailing resources in SL? What is the Sailing Community in SL? Are their and Sailing Schools? Instructors? Academies? Navies? :-). I have several boats (errmm "Vessels") both powered and sailing. But my interest lies mostly with sailing. I spent a fortune to find a piece of land which was big enough for a house and water property for a dock for my boats. I thought I was clever enough, by ensuring that my water opened into (or bordered) open government seas. But, I have found I can only sail for a short distance before I hit the proverbial end-of-the-World. I was hoping to Circumnavigate SL and I can't even get out of my Region. Oh well, I digress. Any thoughts, help, or input for the Newbie Sailor?
JaeTee Oh