On April 16, with a big smile Charlz Price and Fiona Haworth downsized for the day, and turned the keys to Triumphal Yacht Club over to Tiny World Regatta 2011. Chaos Mandelbrot chaired the “minor, low-brow” event, 🙂 and with Orca Flotta’s help turned the OrCafe into Tiny World Headquarters, sponsoring a nonstop program of music, racing and cruising that ran from dawn to dusk!
Kudos to Beejee Boucher, Greythistle Twine, Jakespeed Northman, BennyThe Boozehound, and Don Septimus; they each took turns spinning great tunes that set the right mood and built tiny spirit over the day’s activities.
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When people weren’t dancing, they were on the water sailing. The competition events included separate morning and afternoon fleet races, designed for the convenience of sailors in different time zones. Between the aquatic hot-rodding sets, Kittensusie Landar and Leeward Cruising Club took center stage. They orchestrated a distance, mass cruise that launched from the Schiffsratten docks in Pslande. The fleet sailed through Dire Strait and passed by DYC in Knaptrackicon to re-enter Bingo enroute to a landfall back at Triumphal! It was great fun, and BennyThe Boozehound piped through his soundtrack all along the way. It was a “Tour-de-Force” of truly tiny proportions. 🙂
Oh. I forgot to mention one of the best parts!
Triumphal’s owners Charlz Price and Fiona Haworth provided everyone with TrYC Tiny-compatible racing and cruising sailboats! The boats are actually pretty great, so go over to Triumphal and get one. They are powered by the BWIND engine, and are very nicely (and thoughtfully) detailed. The boats will carry two sailors and they have adjustable textures and sit positions (so your Tiny can see over the cockpit). The TrYC cruiser/racer even comes with a spinnaker!
This was my first acquaintance with Charlz and Fi’s club boat; it turned out to be easy to use, very stable and quite speedy, as the first group of racers discovered on Saturday morning. That 8:00am timeslot had a packed house with five sailing teams on the startline. Despite the crowd, the weather proved perfect for sailing, with no noticable lag.
The short race course was also well-suited to the short skippers and swift sailcraft; the morning fleet quickly racked-up results for five consecutive race heats. Chaos Mandelbrot was Race Director, and Silber Sands was head judge throughout. At different times, Orca, Joro, Naeve, and Jane were the Tiny Race Road Crew helping Silber out.
The Regatta used the ISAF standard low-point scoring system with one discard. Under those rules (and probably under any other), Aislinn Farella emerged the undisputed 8:00am winner with three First Place finishes! Lothor Vlodovic had two Firsts, and earned Second Place. He sailed a super series, ending a single point behind Aislinn! Nice job! Here are the numbers:
8:00AM Races
Orca and Beejee
Race 1:
1: Aislinn Farella IDAF06 — 00:07:29
2: Lothor Vlodovic IDLV42 — 00:07:34
3: Julia Ceres IDJC61 — 00:08:22
4: Orca Flotta IDCAFE — 00:09:33
5: Blunt Fhang and Garbet Psaltry — DNS
Race 2:
1: Aislinn Farella IDAF06 — 00:07:23
2: Lothor Vlodovic IDLV42 — 00:07:26
3: Julia Ceres IDJC61 — 00:07:51
4: Orca Flotta IDCAFE — 00:09:39
5: Blunt Fhang IDBLUN — 00:09:40 DSQ
Race 3:
1: Lothor Vlodovic IDLV42 — 00:07:14
2: Julia Ceres IDJC61 — 00:07:51
3: Orca Flotta IDCAFE — 00:08:03
4: Blunt Fhang IDBLUN — 00:09:07
5: Aislinn Farella IDAF06 — DNF
Race 4:
1: Lothor Vlodovic IDLV42 — 00:06:51
2: Aislinn Farella IDAF06 — 00:07:00
3: Julia Ceres IDJC61 — 00:08:36
4: Orca Flotta IDCAFE — 00:08:59
5: Blunt Fhang IDBLUN — DNF
Race 5:
1: Aislinn Farella IDAF06 — 00:07:08
2: Lothor Vlodovic IDLV42 — 00:07:11
3: Orca Flotta IDCAFE — 00:07:37
4: Blunt Fhang IDBLUN — 00:08:35
5: Julia Ceres IDJC61 — DNF
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The afternoon races were just as great!
Joro Aya spent the morning session judging, so by 3:00 pm she was hot to sail, and ready to roll. Joro quickly mastered the Regatta Raceboat, jumping ahead of the fleet and winning the Start in nearly every heat. When the salt-spray settled, the scoreboard showed Joro had grabbed four First Place wins out of the total of five events.
Woots, Even under the day’s Small Circumstances, Joro had the right stuff, ending up with a perfect low-point score of “4.” Don Berithos and Gemma Vuckovic trailed Joro at a distance… and Gemma came away with the Second Place showing.
Woots! Nice racing everybody! Here are the details:
3:00PM RACES
Tiny World Trophies!
Flotta Flying
Race 1:
1: joro Aya IDSLUT — 00:07:24
2: don Berithos IDUS82 — 00:08:21 DSQ
3: Gemma Vuckovic IDGV78 — 00:09:07
4: Ipan Tatsu ID565 — 00:09:09
5: BennyThe Boozehound ID3333 — 00:09:13
6: Allie Tomsen ID80AT — 00:15:24 DSQ
Race 2:
1: joro Aya IDSLUT — 00:07:14
2: Gemma Vuckovic IDGV78 — 00:07:44
3: don Berithos IDUS82 — 00:07:56
4: Ipan Tatsu ID565 — 00:10:11
5: BennyThe Boozehound ID3333 — DNF
Race 3:
1: joro Aya IDSLUT — 00:07:14
2: Gemma Vuckovic IDGV78 — 00:07:44
3: BennyThe Boozehound no ID
4: don Berithos IDUS82 — 00:08:14
5: Ipan Tatsu and Duana Starflare ID565 — 00:10:10
Yes, Joro out front... again
Race 4:
1: don Berithos IDUS82 — 00:08:01
2: Ipan Tatsu ID565 — 00:09:08 DSQ
3: joro Aya IDSLUT — 00:11:44
4: Gemma Vuckovic IDGV78 — DNF
Race 5:
1: joro Aya IDSLUT — 00:07:20
2: Gemma Vuckovic IDGV78 — 00:07:36
3: don Berithos IDUS82 — 00:07:44
4: Ipan Tatsu ID565 — DNS
For such a small event, Tiny World ended up pretty wondrous. 🙂 On Saturday TrYC was chock-full of happy, funny people who were dancing, sailing, and cruising their weekend away. So Please give a huge, much deserved hug and sound loud applause to the great team that put it all together: Chaos, Charlz, Fiona, Orca, and Kittensusie. WOOTS!
Addendum
I don’t know about you, but my personal criterion for a ‘Regatta well done‘ is pretty simple. A sailing event is a success if somebody comes up and says: “Hey, that was fun; let’s do it again tomorrow!” 🙂
Chaos in younger days
Well… the day after Tiny World, that happened big-time.
On April 17, a rather huge fleet of sailors descended once again on the Triumphal race waters for a Sunday Leeward Cruise. This time however, Kittensusie Landar and Francois Jacques set the destination to Chaos Mandelbrot’s home dock at Wicked Good. 🙂
A truly sim-busting crowd made landfall there, and all joined-in once again, thanking that Penguin for a Tiny job… but a job done HUGE! 🙂
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Metaverse Sailing 
Thanks Jane for all your help and kind words. I would also like to thank the Tiny SAR team that helped with securing the race sims, very much appreciated. Thank you.
You are offering thanks?
That seems a tad backwards. 🙂
Through humor, humility, wisdom and dedication,
you and Fi serve as an unfailing beacon,
a secure landfall, and true friends
for countless sailors in Second Life.
We all know that, but probably don’t say it enough. 🙂
(P.S. Charlz? Tell Elbag Gable same goes for him,
even though he’s a Brit. 🙂 )