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Virtual RC Sailboat in Second Life

Posted by RC Sailboat Guide on Aug-16-09

Wow, it is unbelievable but now you can sail your virtual RC Sailboat in Second Life.
For all you who don’t know Second Life – it is a virtual world where you can pretty much do everything you can do in the real world. From working to sports, shopping to now rc sailing.

This guy build his own RC Dutch Barge and I have to say it looks quite nice.

Here is a link to the article of Ravishal playing with his virtual boat and where you can even buy the boat (if you are in Second Life). Also has another picture of the barge under full sail.

Second Life RC Sailboat

How to create a third hand for model building

Posted by RC Sailboat Guide on May-19-09

I found this tip at RC Caraction.com, but this tip is certainly universal for all model builders.

Current Ebay Model Sailboat Plans Offers

Posted by RC Sailboat Guide on May-18-09

4 Reasons to start Model Sailing

Posted by RC Sailboat Guide on May-11-09

This is a quick post to convince why model sailing as a wonderful and rewarding hobby.

Firstly – It’s relaxing:
As long as you don’t have a phobia against water, standing and watching over a nice lake or the sea is just wonderful. And compared to a loud RC motorboat, where you constantly need to exchange batteries or fuel up, a RC Sailboat lets you enjoy the atmosphere and you even get the time to watch what else is going on around the lake.

Model Sailboat - Art you can play with

Model Sailboat - Art you can play with

Secondly – Boat Building
If you are in to working with your hands and create beautiful things, then a Model Sailboat should be high on your list. Somebody called it – Art you can play with and that describes it perfectly.

Thirdly – Learn to sail
Honestly, what do you think is more fun? Learning from books or buy playing with a RC Sailboat? Obviously model sailing is especially a good way of teaching sailing fundamentals to children, but also grownups enjoy this hobby where you don’t need to get your feet wet.

Fourthly – Competition RC Sailing
The racing fever will quickly infect you as soon as another RC Sailboat crosses your path. And it is a lot of fun chasing each other of the water, seeing your model sailboat fly across the water just powered by the wind and your skills (Actually check out my review of the Nirvana II to see you don’t really need much skills to get started)

If all this didn’t convince you to start with model sailing as a hobby, than I don’t know what.