I know, I know, I haven't done much work in ages. But to my defense, I collected some stuff, to make some really nice entries, an I dearly hope, I will succeed.
A little while ago, a good friend of mine, asked me out on a little tour all up and about Sansara, the first real mainland continent in SL, and the first one, that attracted sailors, and other water- and boat enthusiasts.
After a little drive around the cost, he took me with his Boss to Bay City. And I have been to many places in SL but this place.. damn.. it was a REAL city, like one would imagine one. I was amazed! Plus the lag was pretty calm, since Sansara isn't as over run as the Blake Sea.
It took me quite a while to think about, what should my first post after that long winter break be about? Just saying, hey I am back, seemed so.. weird. So I decided, to keep my style. I picked a song I deeply admire, and collected some pictures over the last days. I don't really know what to say or talk write about. Three month without Second Life .. were tough but nice too. Coming back is strange because, nothing really has changed, and yet a lot of things seem different.
My first tours, were just around the home base, now in Gale Nook, not longer my beloved Hay Harbor.I still hope, I will be able to get it back one day. The only real home I ever had. It will be my .. return to innocence...
And if you want, then start to laugh
If you must, then start to cry
Be yourself, don't hide
Just believe in destiny
Finally after one week, I was brave enough for a little tour with Jasp in his IF. It was a lot of fun, and that was what I missed most, the sailing, and my dearest friends. On the picture below, I am chilling at my beach, not trying to look at my old place, because it's right next sim. And.. the new Hay Harbor isn't much easy on the eyes. But yah.. jealous much...
Oh, I can't forget, the new Catwa-Head. Dang.. I am in love. It took me around eight hours, to repaint my skin, so the face fits perfectly, but now it does, so do the lips. I do love it, what is your opinion?
With the first snow in my real life, the first snow arrived in my second life as well. It took me a while, and some thinking, but I feel its snowy and just purrfect. I used some low lag snow all over the place, we got ice floes, snow slushes, piles of snow everywhere, and don’t forget the snowman or Santa himself, parking his sleigh behind my house. Maybe one can see him ride through the sky on Christmas?
I thought about using a nice aurora Borealis, but its really big, and I don’t know if my neighbours would appreciate it.
After that bad blew Jasp and I took we analysed the race, and worked on our weak spots. After finding some new start approaches, we digged deeper into the the spinnaker run, and woohoo, got OVER 14 knots out of that sweet girl!
We focused on our slowest lap, so we did just these legs several times, and I am pretty happy with the outcome.
Raceline : Winner: Jaspar Recreant ID#181 ! Race time: 00:15:00 Lap times -- Start: 00:00:01 -- Last lap: 00:14:59
Raceline : Winner: Jaspar Recreant ID#181 ! Race time: 00:14:46 Lap times -- Start: 00:00:04 -- Last lap: 00:14:42
This week was amazing, tough and weird and.. just everything all together. I started writing again, about everything but also about my healing heart. That probably helped me a lot, to push through my writers block. I met someone and he makes me smile and laugh, and my sister took me too a long overdue photo shoot. It was exhausting, but not just for me, also for the artist, because I got a new profile picture, by,, exactly, my sister Dakota, and it became sooo amazing.
I also started working on one of my boats again, another good sign for back to normal... but .. winter is coming..
Everyone of us knows that saying, but for those of us who live in Sailors Cove it is true. Winter is coming, tonight! Wait.. I think I heard doom bearing melodies all over the place! But I wouldn’t be me, if I wasn’t prepared, all of my land and home is already wintery, so I am sitting on my beach now, enjoying the warmth of a fire, and this new amazing picture of myself, while waiting for the first snow!
Sometimes I really hate bad luck. Everything seemed to be fine, Jasp and I were fit, full of energy, and ready to roll. But SL wasn’t with us this very nice Sunday. The day of the first snow. We got distracted slowly after the start, and came to late to the line and right into the wind shadow of Titus' yacht.
Usually that wouldn’t be so bad, if the scripts wouldn’t be lagging and working... we hadn’t have that luck, and all the race we sailed like being in a wind shadow, as if our yacht would have been made from lead. Soon Kovu got us, brought us into another wind shadow, and the race was basically done, but we kept trying. We did everything like we did on Friday, and finally, on the last two legs, the boat seemed to be back in its place, and groove.
We came in third .. of three... but we came in at all.
Congratulations big time to Titus and Kovu, you really rocked today, you won well deserved. Therefore you will get from me a huge thumbs up and big huggies. If I hadn’t to leave so fast, that would have screamed for a beer together.
Race 32 - 22 November 2015
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Race Results:
1: Titus Tobias ID1153 -- 00:46:22
2: Kovu Kumel IDBEAVER -- 00:48:11
3: Jaspar Recreant ID#181 -- 00:48:51
[05:24]
Lap Times:
Titus Tobias ID1153 -- Start: 00:00:03 -- Lap 1: 00:16:22 -- Lap 2: 00:15:03 -- Last lap: 00:14:54
Kovu Kumel IDBEAVER -- Start: 00:00:27 -- Lap 1: 00:16:26 -- Lap 2: 00:15:27 -- Last lap: 00:15:51
Jaspar Recreant ID#181 -- Start: 00:00:07 -- Lap 1: 00:16:57 -- Lap 2: 00:16:18 -- Last lap: 00:15:29
Wishing I was knee deep in the water somewhere Got the blue sky breeze and it don't seem fair Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair Sunrise there's a fire in the sky Never been so happy Never felt so high And I think I might have found me my own kind of paradise
-Lyrics by Zac Brown Band ft. Jimmy Buffett
It was Saturday again, and I found finally again the time to follow my passion. Like every weekend, the Rainbow Sails Yacht Club started a cruise, and Jasp and I right in the middle. This cruise took us through the Columbia River, up north to a pyramid, and than back south on a fast run home. It was an interesting and fast cruise, some tacking at the start, but a very relaxed way back.
It was partially a bumpy road, like every Saturday in SL Waters, caused Jaspar to drop of off my Flying Shadow, the Dragons Touch II. Maybe I should check his Harness, it might be defect. Considering the fact, that it was a fast cruise with a very fast boat, I had rare time to shoot some action pics, but I was able to get you a few at the first and only Rendezvous Point.
Kovu joined us with his, new? , OP 65 or OD 65, I am sooo bad with boat names – of boats I don’t own. But I loved it and I probably might get one too. This writer is sooooo weak.
But any ways, it was a great cruise, and I had lots of fun, no matter how bumpy it became by times.
