From Japan to SL

Looked for sea areas for outer sea sailing. Since yachts in SL are ‘coast only’, it is impossible to sail out of the blue line (there is no SIM.) This is the North end of Nautilus continent where we live. This is a part of ‘Coastal waterway’ prepared by Linden and there are several public rez points.




The start point is a small island. This point can be used as a goal but a bit poor for the target. When sailing, you can set the wind yourself or use natural wind (SIM wind). If you use yachts by WildWind, the commands are ‘wind lock’, ‘wind dir’, and ‘wind spd’. For example, /1 wind dir 0, /1 wind spd 10, etc. SIM wind is slow and lull sometimes, but it could be also interesting to sail waiting for the wind.
Start: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vipiteno/39/41/21




It is only about eight minutes sailing, but it is exciting when the target island comes in sight and crossed the final SIM border without incident. There is some seaside-SIM that is off-limit or causes freezing, so it had better not enter the red lines in the top picture. The goal island is an island open for public and the facilities are free to use. It could be good for a date spot… Other free yacht rez point can be found by searching with “boat rez”.
Goal: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kenosaki/147/186/22




Total view of the Nautilus continent. The arrow shows the above course. Our houses are on the west side. The course at Kazumi’s pier that was introduced last time is in the inland sea seen on the left. The Nautilus continent was the fifth land. At the first time, it had many water surfaces for sailing and shoreline SIMs can be passed freely by the courtesy of the residents, but recently many places became landfilled or off-limits. Although it is called ‘continent’, the width is only about 30 SIMs wide, less than 8km that is about half size of Izu-Ohshima.




The continents of SL. There is no SIM in the blue area in this map and it is impossible to enter. Moving from a continent to another one is only possible with the right four SIMs and left two. I will challenge it next time.




The SL world. The white ones are the continents shown above. There are many independent SIMs scattered on the left. What does the dark area that I eclosed with blue lines? Is it reserved for future SIM setting? The width of the total area is about 300km that is as same as the Kanto Plain. The world could be considered small, but it is amazing to imagine that it is equicalent to make all cities, houses, and fields in the whole plane realistically modeld.