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Sailing in Second Life

There are many very active groups of people involved with sailing in Second Life. Many Yacht Clubs are active and doing weekly races and some times a year there are huge regattas. At least twice a week there is are cruising, often with a cool party afterwards on the final destination.

• 1 Places to Sail
• 2 Sail Boats
• 3 Yacht Clubs
• 4 Other Resources
• 5 Do's & Don'ts
• 6 SL Sailing Pictures

Places to Sail

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 wonderful Sea_of_Fables or just cruise up to the north with some friends. Gulf of Lauren Just to the north of Bay City , the gulf offers several lightly-themed water regions for sailing, as well as access to the northern and southern channels towards ANWR and Abbotts. Gaeta is a sailing-friendly mainland continent with tens of sims to sail around the huge island. Puerto Arianti A free use marina with sailing information, a maritime museum and some free sailing and nautical items.

Maps and sailing routes for all continents can be found at Waterways .

Where to get a boat? There is a real active boat builder scene. Tradewinds Yacht Club (TYC) In the Sim of Dex has regular boat shows and works extensively with boat builders. Tradewinds is home to the Free BWind boat (a fantastic beginner and intermediate sailboat) along with the Free Flying Fizz. Many clubs have boat stores and vendors

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Several Yacht Clubs have vendors of boat-builders on their land Nantucket Yacht Club (NYC) as well as several other clubs offer the Shelly Fizz for free. The Shelly is a realistic sailboat, for beginners. 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. --> Second Life Ships Database - more than 100 sailboats listed

Yacht Clubs

(alphabetically) Danshire Yacht Club (DYC) Fishers Island Yacht Club (FIYC) Kazenojin Seiringu (KS) Les Glénans (LG) Mango Yacht Club (MYC) Located at the beautiful tropical area of the Fruit Islands with over 100 sims for Sailing. Mowry Bay Yacht Club (MBYC) Nantucket Yacht Club (NYC) Located on the edge of Blake Sea and close to Nautilus Continent, NYC exists to encourage sailing in Second life. New Port Yacht Club (NPYC) New Port Yacht Club is part of Bay City , and provides access to their nearby waterways Schiffsratten Yacht Club (SrYC) A German Yacht Club that organizes training courses and races. See Schiffsratten Blog for details. 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 (TYC) Over 1,000 members, over 300 sims to sail though, 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. SLurl Triumphal Yacht Club (TrYC) WayPoint Yacht Club (WYV) WayPoint Yacht Club is dedicated mainly to supporting Japanese sailors and helping them join the SL Sailing community. Through sailing and racing, provide opportunities to communicate with people all over the world. SLurl

Other Resources

Second Life Geography links with two themed articles: Water and Waterways ; the last one provides maps and a link to download navigation maps.

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 - Pictures about all kinds of boats, even RL ones sl sail - Pictures about everything related to sailing in SL SL - Beauty of Sailing - Emphasis on artistic SL sailing pictures Second Life Sports - Different SL sports, including sailing

• keep all alphabetic sorted
• start point for sailing,
• Yacht clubs
• under vessels, alphabetic order of SL shipyard (slURLs)

Due this should be a informative wiki and less advertising the general sort order must be alphabetically. -- Dil Spitz 18:05, 13 February 2010 (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?

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Simple pleasures: sailing in second life – mackenzie abbot reporting.

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May I just add: While the Loonetta is a nice cruiser, there are loads of racers available as well; Most importantly many of these are actively raced on a weekly basis.

Apologies for the late reply to your comment. I decided to keep the topic of racing boats for a future feature as I know very little about it. A good contributor needs to do research before writing an article! The topic is about sailing of which I am quite competent (although my wife would disagree) and a feature about racing boats is on the horizon (pardon the pun) Thank you for your comment and if you can be of any assistance in future sailing/racing articles, please don't hesitate to contact me via IM Mack

Really nice and informative article.Points of sail are general reference terms used to describe the direction a boat is sailing in relation to its angle to the wind.Close Hauled is an exact point of sail. It is equivalent to the definite angle to the wind where a boat's sails simply start to increase lift and propel the boat forward. This angle is generally around 40 to 45 degrees far from specifically into the wind. The genuine edge will change relying upon the attributes of the boat and its gear. This is the closest the boat can sail upwind. At the point when sailing close-pulled, the sails are acquired tight and the centerboard is the distance down.Good day. ~Sara.

She might be controlled by a genuine breeze from abeam, yet she is influencing a phantom to breeze from dead ahead in an equivalent and inverse bearing to her own advance through the streaming air. This ghost joins with the genuine breeze to create the real breeze over the sails. http://www.mysheriff.net/profile/boat-rental/sag-harbor/930761702/

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Sailing in secondlife for beginners, controlling and navigating your boat, quick menu:.

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There are many boat builders in SecondLife and they all are different, but one thing they have in common, the boat is supposed to move (but not all do).

Types of boats

Motor yachts.

With motor yachts big or small, often these are the main steps you need to take:

• Rezz your boat
• Start the engine
• Increase throttle in steps usually done by using either the arrow keys or the page-up/page-down keys.
• But on some models you also need to use gears with page-up/down
• Steer the boat by using the left right arrow keys

If the boat is well designed, you see in chat or in hover text the amount of throttle, often designated by a simple number 1-2-3 etc. If you want to back up because you want to park in a slip or got stuck somewhere, the throttle works the reverse way, sometimes called astern .

Popular brands for Motor Yachts are:

BBX – good looking if you like their style. Not as heavy in prims as in the past, but still a somewhat primitive steering system. Still a bit high in price, although it helps to compare their prices on MP and in their shop. Yes, it can differ considerable.

PRESTIGE 650 – A popular cruiser. Like the BBX nice styled but a somewhat primitive steering system. Its a boat for decoration and parties mainly, not so much for sailing. Designer has no in world shop, but offers a demo version on MP .

In some cases designer add a touch or reality by calculating the amount of fuel consumed by your engine, if you run out of gas you need to add fuel. Or if you drive too fast too long, your engine overheats. Some permit you to switch that realism off, others don’t.

Sailing boats

In a sailing boat you need to set sail. This can oft be done by using a HUD (Head Up Display) or chat commands like for instance RAISE. Again, reading the manual gives you the appropriate instructions. Make sure you understand the difference between the sails like Mainsail , Jib , Genoa , Spinnaker . Here you can read more about that .

Sails also need to be moved left or right depending on the Apparent Wind Angle (AWA) to keep maximum wind pressure on the sails. Often this is accomplished by using a HUD or using the up-down arrow keys . Some sailing boats have an optional autopilot function, this keeps the sails set at optimal position in relation to the wind angle, especially a blessing for beginners.

To make sure your sails are set in an optimal position, many sailing boats help the captain with indicators. This can be done by sound, by luffing (small strings of cloth on the main sail, the so called telltales ) or by simply using hover text colours and/or << >> characters indicating the correct position of the sails. Some boats like the Bandit 60 show correct sail setting by colouring the console.

If you are lucky, your boat package contains a well written user manual. I strongly recommend you read this manual at least in part before you try to use your boat. Having a basic understanding of the main commands like start, stop, raising sails and steering are very helpful to avoid frustration and disappointment.

if you buy more boats from the same builder it becomes easier, but there is still very little standard when it comes to sailing in SecondLife.

Navigation of your boat

Wind in secondlife.

Wind in SecondLife? yes, there is wind in SL but its a bit flaky. Some sailing boats sail purely on the SecondLife wind and you have no control over it.

At some point around 2012 Motor Loon (builder of the famous Loonetta ) created the option to choose your own wind direction and speed on the Loonetta. For some unknown reason to me, these wind speed settings are limited to 8, 11, 15, 18, 21 and 25 Knots (15 being standard). Later boat builders copied this system and today many have this option. It is set by simply typing he value in chat. For instance, you type NW en the wind immediately blows from the north/west direction (you are not moving in that direction, its the wind direction!). Type in 21 and that wind has a force of 21 knots. (1 knot equals 1.85 km/h or 1.15 M/h in case you forgot). Standard flying speed in SecondLife is 31 Knots or 57 km/h, remember that when you try to outrun these pesky guys who try to sit on your boat :))

More recent builders (Bandit for instance), in an effort to mimic RL, took it a step further and made it so that wind direction and speed and gusts still vary randomly around these set values (called BWIND ). This adds to a more realistic experience. If you ever move into sail racing, you will learn that wind is set by the racing director (RD). The racing director is also the person who whoops your ass if you come to close with your boat to the racing area. They shout at you or worse delete your boat. Your boat needs to be equipped to participate in a racing, so it will recognize the external wind setting and other racing instructions. Some builders supply racing versions of their boats.

Using Mouse Look (ML)

An often used alternative for steering a boat is so called Mouse Look (ML). Its a viewer situation in which the mouse is used to turn the camera left/right/up and down, while steering the boat and sails with the four WASD keys .

A and D are used to steer left/right, W and S are used to use the throttle/gears or setting sails, depending on the boat scripting. Sometimes boats also use the E and C keys for gear switching or throttle setting, check your instructions NC.

Main advantage is that the combination of mouse and keys give much more flexibility to see what’s happening around you or behind you. It takes some training to get used to it and is not usable for left-handed people. Not all boats support WASD/mouselook steering. For those who are left-handed , an alternative to use ML is to have the mouse on the left side of the keyboard (obviously) and use the 4-arrow keys to steer and control the sails. Make sure your arrow keys are properly set in your viewer.

TIP: in Firestorm ML setting keep the option Show user interface in Mouselook switched on. Any huds or controls will still be visible.

Also set the other option in Movement>Arrow keys always move me on, if arrow keys are used to steer your boat.

Soon after you mastered the basic controls of your boat another problem arises.Where are you in the SecondLife world, and how do you get from A to B, in short how to navigate . Navigation is not completely unique to sailing. Also when walking or flying you need to know your current position to reach your destination. Of course teleporting is very convenient way of transporting, but that’s not possible on a boat. You need to sail to get at your destination. And frankly, that’s the most strenuous and difficult part of sailing. After a while you get used to the boat controls, but navigation is always a challenge. Its like driving a car, you don’t think about the peddles, but you need to know where you are in the real world and where to go.

In RL these days we have Global Positioning System (GPS), but in SecondLife we do it the old fashioned way. Looking around and above all keeping a close eye on your mini and main maps.

The mini map (MM) – (Ctrl-Shift-M)

The little squares are separate parcels and in many cases an indication of an inhabited island. You want to avoid those of course. The small arrows are avatars and the direction of the arrow indicates if they are above (planes) or below you.

The mini map is so important in sailing that most sailors agree its the number one instrument used in SecondLife sailing. So we take a close look at its functions and settings. Please note: these descriptions are valid for Firestorm (FS), I am not familiar with the LL or other viewers.

These are the things you can do with the mini map in Firestorm:

• open it with ctrl-shift-M, or use World menu>Mini map (or use the button bar as I do)
• move it around by simply placing the mouse on top of it and drag around
• drag the corners or sides of the map to enlarge or shrink it
• the amount of regions you see on the mini map is related to your draw distance (DD), the higher your DD, the more regions show up on the mini map
• zoom in and out by using the mouse wheel, very convenient to see more or less details of the world around you
• rest your mouse on any of the regions, don’t move and its name will pop up
• double click anywhere in the MM will open the main map of the world with your current world position in the middle of the map. Convenient when you want to see the bigger picture. Note: you need to set your preferences correctly or double click will teleport you to that click point…ouch, you did not want to be tp-ed out of your boat. Go to Prefs>Move and view>Double click on minimap and choose open world map from pull down menu
• change what is displayed on the MM by right clicking and choose Show>Objects and Physical Objects and Property lines . The MM then shows you the outlines of parcels and solid objects like land and buildings, very convenient to see where sea ends and land begins. Also you are pre-warned of upcoming sim crossings and you can avoid these pesky region corner crossings which will crash you almost always.
• regions which are off line or simply don’t exist are shown in different colours. One thing you want to avoid is sailing into off line land, at best you are stopped, but often when running into off-line or non-loading regions, your viewer will crash after a view seconds. When your viewer crashes, the boat often stays alive in SL and keeps on going until its stopped by land or some physical object somewhere in SL. A quick trick to see if an upcoming region is on-line, is by quickly removing the water on screen. You can do this with ALT-Ctrl-Shift-7 key command. This derenders the water and you can better see if that region is alive. Same command restores the water. Note: this trick of removing water on screen will only work if you have activated your advanced menu ( Ctrl-Alt-D ) in Firestorm.
• rotate map – ON will keep year heading direction always at the top of the MM. I find this the best setting because the map feels like it follows your heading.
• auto center – this projects your ship position always in the middle of the MM, making it easy to see your current world position
• chat distance ring shows both the 20 meter and 100 meter (shout) radius for chat. its an extra indication where you are and if you can communicate with people around.
• MM also shows you the magnetic compass N-W-S-E and the in-betweens NE-SE-NW-SW. Very convenient if you want to set your own wind as many sailing boats permits when Loon introduced it in the Loonetta.
• finally and most important, the MiniMap shows you the positions of other avatars as little colored dots . Often these dots are other boats which you want to avoid running into at all cost. Nothing is more embarrassing in sailing than bumping into another boat. If you want to know who the avatar is? Simply keep your mouse on top of the dot and the name and distance pops up. No need for any scripted radars that add lag.
• did you know you can change the colours of these dots? Go to Prefs>Colors>Minimap and choose colours for friends, yourself and others. Forget about Lindens, they rarely show up in SecondLife. Change the background opacity to set MM transparency making it more readable

The Main World Map – (Ctrl-M)

Also the main map is very helpful in navigation. Not only because you can clearly see where you are in the world (the little coloured icon). Some sailors prefer this map over the minimap, but its not easy to position it on screen and still see everything around you.

One very convenient feature of the map is the option to click anywhere on the map placing a little round open red dot . If you then close the map this little dot translates into a large vertical red bar as a very visible real beacon. If close enough it will even hovers the name of the region and the distance in meters. If the beacon is too far away (>1000 meters), then the viewer will display little red arrows indicating where the beacon is located. This feature makes navigating very easy. You simply sail from beacon to beacon.

However there are two things you should know. First if you want to clear the beacon you need to open the map and click the clear button . Secondly the beacon becomes invisible when you get below 3 meter. This can be switched off in P refs>Firestorm>General>Deactivate tracking beacon etc . If left on the beacon disappears when less than 3 meters away.

TIP: you can suppress the right hand side of the map with the legend by clicking the almost invisible >> sign at the right upper corner.

Using a Navigation HUD

Suppose you like sailing, suppose you don’t want to be bothered all the time with ‘where am I’ and ‘what is the next navigation point’, especially when you sail with a friend who keeps talking 🙂 Imagine you had a sort of GPS system, a system that guides you along way points so you can sail a pre-defined route and enjoy the vista, talk with your friends and concentrate on steering enjoying the scenery rather than navigating.

A very convenient gadget to accomplish this is a Navigation HUD (head up display) . Its basically a HUD in which you store one or more note cards which contain a number of SLurl’s (map locations or waypoints (WP) as its often called) in SL. The HUD informs you visually with a needle to the next pre-set location or way point. So if you make large sailing trips and don’t want to bother too much during the trip where to navigate to, then make a pre-recorded list of way points in a NC and the HUD will tell you how to steer and when to change directions. It even projects the familiar red arrows and vertical beam on your screen (need to wear RLV for that). The HUD sends an audio signal when you approach the next way point, so you don’t have to stare at the needle all the time. It often tells you the name and  distance in meters to the next Way Point and your current speed in kts and compass direction . Very convenient, especially when you sail with friends and don’t have much time to worry about your route or just too lazy to bother and make a relaxed sailing trip.

Ultimate Sailor Buddy

A well done, reliable and popular product in my opinion is the Ultimate Sailor Buddy (3 scripts) which is available on MP as a free version to try out and a full version for 400L.  Way Points are basically SLurl’s. Remember, you get your SLurl’s by going to the main map, click on a map location and click Copy SLurl button . This WP value is then pasted into a NC and in this way a route is created.There is NO NEED to TP to the way point, simply click the position on the map and copy the SLurl. Of course if you want to do a very precise setting then TP to that spot is advisable.

When needed you simply load the NC and off you go. If you made a nice route on a NC, you can give it to a friend who simply loads it into his HUD and he can sail your route too. remember the basic HUD is free, so your friends can try it out without any cost or use it to simply see where your route leads to.. Note:Latest version 1.3 permits to sail a route in reverse order. Soon version 1.4 will be released.

The USB has become a standard gadget in sail racing. Clubs often provide a USB NC for their sail routes.

A route list for a trip around Nautilus

TIP: go to Rainbow Sails Yacht Club  in Second Norway to acquire >140 free sailing routes.

Another gadget I often use is a HUD with a real time compass . Of course your heading can also be seen in the MiniMap, but a separate compass HUD makes keeping your heading much easier, especially when sailing fast. A nice free compass is available on MP at https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/compass-HUD/4354441?id=4354441&slug=compass-HUD Type compass in MP to find others.

This compass rotates when your ava or boat rotates.

So to conclude. Navigation is a vital part of your sailing skills and not as easy as it may look. Main parts are the  mini-map and main map and perhaps a navigation HUD added for easier navigating.

A few interesting links on advanced SL navigation you find here:

• True and apparent wind AWA
• The mechanics of sailing
• Wind mapping
• Sailing YT instructions centered around the Bandit IF

Read on about Using your Firestorm viewer while sailing

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Lovely article, even if i don’t use mini map ever (prefer to rely on the world map if i need to). Still i think that the changing wind and speed via local chat was done by becka on her bwind bbk 1.37 engine script that Motor loon adapted and so many others (being the bandits engine a exclusive version of that engine script, the b wind 2.5).

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The best sea for sailing ?!

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Rowan Amore

Here's a thread that might help

Simo Vodopan

You could consider the sea around the Bay City area to be a nice spot to sail. Pretty low lag with about 24 or so sims to cross making a nice long cruise rounding up to 12 or so minutes round trip. It's pretty stable with the sim crossings there too and such; I have a overall relaxing time flying and sailing that particular course. To me, areas like Bay City and other older historical areas are pretty overlooked by the masses; they need more respect.

Zindra has a good amount of sailing area, just avoid entering the rivers which may cause your computer to experience lag. There are several rez zones, but the one I prefer is the North Shore Rez Zone in Shell Beach, http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shell Beach/80/57/24

Bellisseria has quite a lot of sea to see, and public rez zones are easy to find. You could try http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Springhurst Gulf/221/173/23

5 hours ago, KjartanEno said: Zindra has a good amount of sailing area, just avoid entering the rivers which may cause your computer to experience lag. There are several rez zones...

Yes, Zindra has a good ocean. The rivers are sailable until you get to an upstream dam. They're also wide enough for sailboat tacking, and have LL land on both sides most of the way, so there are no surprise ban lines.

There's a water rez zone alongside the Port of Kama City, but it's not marked.

Yuumo Ichibara

Speaking of Zindra, there is a rezz zone in Philsen near Osbourne Beach and Wendersley that my husband and I particularly like. You can safely sail to all directions from that point:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Philsen/58/104/22

Caroline Takeda

Linden Ocean between Nautilus and Corsica, or try to sail around the entire Nautilus continent, a challenge but really good fun.

Ina Fairport

Blake Sea is pretty good for me. For sailing as well as for flying. You could try this rezzzone  :   http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nautilus - Symacom/28/46/23 From there sail to the west. Keep an eye on the map and you will find hundreds of good sailsims.  

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On 12/28/2020 at 2:52 PM, Ina Fairport said: Blake Sea is pretty good for me. For sailing as well as for flying. You could try this rezzzone  :   http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nautilus - Symacom/28/46/23 From there sail to the west. Keep an eye on the map and you will find hundreds of good sailsims.  

Truthfully? I wouldn't recommend the Blake Sea for the socialization but sure for the flying and sailing courses it's nice but once you get to certain areas like Siren's Isle or Barbarossa where the undesirables are with their laggy yachts it becomes a slog of a experience. The Blake isn't what it used to be like it was back in the day.

On 1/8/2021 at 2:55 AM, Simo Vodopan said: Truthfully? I wouldn't recommend the Blake Sea for the socialization but sure for the flying and sailing courses it's nice but once you get to certain areas like Siren's Isle or Barbarossa where the undesirables are with their laggy yachts it becomes a slog of a experience. The Blake isn't what it used to be like it was back in the day.

You are right about Siren's Isle and Barbarossa but why should you go there ? Blake is much more than that. I dont have many problems at Blake

Claireschen Hesten

On 12/21/2020 at 3:25 PM, LucaKen Baxton said: i tried theBlake sea .. but it looks like full of lag .. 

Since uplift i would say lag is not an issue around the Blake Sea (with the exception of Barbarossa & Sirens Isle), Satori, Nautilus, Corsica, Gaeta, Dire Straits, Bingo straits etc. in that area. I had a Yava boat going at full pelt between Warben and Basilisk and back with out being chucked off also managed to sail between Emin (Nautilus) and squall (Gaeta)  with only one region crossing that looked like it was going to detach me from my boat. all that would have been impossible before uplift 

I often fly from SNO to Aerodrome Amelia Earhart. A very nice flight with my Piper Tomahawk PA-38 at low altitude. And no lag issues

Or sailing from the Trudeau yard to Fairchang resort. Also very nice.

There are more than 600 Regions of navigable water reachable from Campbell Coast public Rez Zone at the Emyniad / Couse Region border.. want to try and help me make a list of them all?   I have a feeling there will soon be many more.  Search for Connect the Continents 🗺 

Tradewinds Yacht Club has Friday Cruises, often with a party afterwards.  I think they all start away from, then end up at TYC.  I love the Cruises rather than races (I’m a lazy sailor) 😉 and the Cruise Routes can be done at any time for guaranteed and well-tested routes of smooth sailing ⛵ ️ 

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Sandra Absent

Avid SL sailors there are two new sailing areas in SL

Mare Secundus is a nice sailing area. It was already there when Blake Sea did not even excist

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Mar Scarmon

Check out the Sea of Fables in the middle of the Sansara continent.  It's pretty large, with many gorgeous islands and natural areas to explore.

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Katherine Heartsong

I still love the Blake Sea, but agree with @Mar Scarmon Sea of Fables can be fun as well.

Nalates Urriah

Eden is a good place to sail. The area generally has few people there. There are long straight stretches, which are great for my catamaran.

I fly and sail in the area.

36 minutes ago, Nalates Urriah said: Eden is a good place to sail. The area generally has few people there. There are long straight stretches, which are great for my catamaran. I fly and sail in the area. 2018 map:

Many years ago I lived at Fruit Islands and Eden. I sailed a lot there. The estate is still nice.

• 1 month later...

I have had my houseboat in Siren's Cove forever and pretty much neglected it. I kept reading about Bellisseria and imagine my surprise when I found I was connected. WOW what an amazing sailing area for just out sight seeing. SO many cool properties to look at and a wonderful collection of lighthouses.

Currently I dock at Felicite Isle, Blue Lagoon is a great marina and accessible to the Blake. I've put a boat town at my houseboat too though and might start fixing it up now.

There is no best place to sail, but let's say the less frequented ones will be the no-lag ones also. The worst spot is known from all : it's THE POND (Blake Sea) and specially approaching SIRENS ISLE sim as strangely everyone gathers there, even if strangely, there is nothing to do in or so... The best thing to do is to take a LITTLE sail boat and explore ALL of the UCSL. The less known part for now being the one very recently added to the UCSL right of TUARUA FIJI ESTATE on the general map : NORTH MEDITERRANEAN ESTATE, part of AZURE ISLANDS.

Sail also little canals on mainland waters, it can be hard, but fun.

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