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Tradewind Launched!
Under construction in the Trudeau boatyards for over 3 months, the Tall Ship Tradewind launching into the Second Life Seas on Sunday, February 24 was witnessed by a very large and enthusiastic turnout. The event filled up the sims around Trudeau Cay in the southern United Sailing Sims and in my mind I was counting down seconds until a spontaneous region reset :) But she held and following the Christening by Larinda Cordeaux:
(Launch photos courtesy of Bato Brendel)
(Launch video courtesy of Marktwain White)
Tradewind’s slide down the ways took slightly longer than anticipated (boy, those scripts are the first to go in a void sim populated by 50 people!). She finally hit the water, settled to her waterline, and the party was on!
About Tradewind
Tradewind is the Trudeau tall ship. The shipwrights at Trudeau have modeled Tradewind after the ocean-going vessels from the great age of sail – boats used by whalers, mercantile traders, smugglers (and yes, pirates!). She is rigged as a brigantine with working square sails on her foremast, fore and aft on the main and staysails between the masts. Squarerigged vessels are best suited for following winds (blowing from behind the boat) and the great ships depended on the tradewinds for trans-oceanic crossings. Hence our name :)
Using a combination of rideable physical vehicle and avatar worn attachment, Tradewind offers the best of both worlds, realistic sailing for you and your passengers and crew in a beautifully textured, completely rendered – above and below decks – traditional tall ship. The Tradewind attachment can also be rezzed inworld for display and liveaboard purposes. The full cabin interior primset rezzes separately to minimize the attached primcount while sailing.
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In time for holiday shopping…
If you’d like to purchase a Trudeau yacht as a gift for a friend or loved one this holiday season, you are in luck. We’ve switched over to a vendor system that has a “Buy as a gift” option:
Just click the “Buy as a gift” button, the vendor will prompt for the recipient’s name on the chat line. Your purchase (if done within the following 30 seconds) will go to the named recipient. It is better to give than receive, right? Right? ;)
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Sailing is Fashionable!
Schooner Larinda and the boat show found it’s way into the style blogs:
Thanks for the mention, Bing :)
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We proudly launch our topsail schooner “Larinda“, the largest and most elaborate sailing yacht of the Trudeau fleet. After a flurry of building activity in the Trudeau yards, the last bit of varnish and antifoul paint dried just in time to make the opening of the Sailors Cove Sailboat show running Oct 14th though the 20th.
At 70 ft from sprit to fantail, she is influenced by the designs of famed naval architect John Alden, considered the world’s greatest schooner designer. Also reminiscent of the 19th century New England fishing schooners, she was lofted and built up from RL boat plans, so her lines and proportions are as exacting and true to life as we can make them.
Like the other larger Trudeau yachts, she is a combination vehicle (27 prims) and attachment (254 prims). Thanks to the ingenious sailing mechanics originally devised by Kanker Greenacre and modified by Jacqueline Trudeau specifically for the Trudeau line of yachts, she *really sails* using the SL wind.
Quite a few of those 254 prims were used in constructing a fully outfitted cabin, enterable via 6 opening hatches. Companionways in the split deck house are offset to port for easier access beneath the booms. Below are 2 double berths – a forward vee-berth and aft double quarterberth, all with a couples lying cuddle poses. The “L” shaped settee cushions have correct sit orientation scripts, but of course you’ll probably want to add your own poseballs for your preferred belowdecks activities. ;)
A selection of traditional nautical color schemes are set by voice commands.
See Larinda and the rest of the fantastic boats at the Sailors Cove Boat Show running through Oct. 20th. And a BIG thanks to Tasha Kostolany, Izabella Bentham and Ravishal Bentham for organizing this fantastic SL event.
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