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Look of the … I dunno, “default”?

All these “look of the day” pictures sure are fun, and interesting, but I think everybody also has a “this is the real me” look… not necessary one that looks like the person in real life, but that tells you how the person thinks of himself or herself…

Here’s mine:

Jeans: DMC Jeans “Stranded”

Sweater: Navy Blue Ribbed Sweater

Shoes: My! Boat Shoes in tan (not for sale yet)

Skin: Belleza Skin Thomas V2 SK3

Hair: =BG= Gearhead Double Clutch White tips, seriously deprimmed and linked to a beany hat from the inventory library

Boat: Trudeau One “Love”

Location: Hanayama

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Our summer house on holly kai

Here’s a little panorama of our little place "off the green"…

Keep in mind, the place is private.

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Up the mallard, …not.

The monster

THIS is so not going to be able to cruise up the mallard river…

“Up the mallard”…

in a previous post, I wrote “I’d hate to take that monster up the mallard”.

 Well, what can i say… I’ve tried it, and you actually CAN beat a VOJ70 upwind through the mallard river… if you know what you are doing.

It is also possible with a Trudeau J-Class, which is not that much smaller…

so what’s the next challenge? the Tradewind?

Two new boats…

…ok, the first one is not that new:


WildWind VOJ-70

a few details:

  • huge genaker
  • canting keel
  • race wind

sails very nicely and fast, good for long distance racing, not so good for explorative cruising because it has a rather huge turning circle… I’d hate to take that monster up the mallard.

the other boat is the

Flying Fizz 3.0…

a few details:

  • no “sail by numbers” anymore, the first boat with actually working telltales in the sails
  • real heeling
  • tasks distributable to crew

this boat will make for interesting racing…