Facebook

Login

Support Sailonline

If you haven't already - join the SAILONLINE YACHT CLUB!

Please also consider making a donation - all amounts are greatly appreciated!

Profile for Doc Häagen-Dazs



Name Doc Häagen-Dazs
Email Address haagen.dazs2009@gmail.com
Website URLhttp://opencontainerii.blogspot.com/
AvatarUsers avatar
Posts16
  • 2010-07-28 15:04:19
    Re: Comparing SailingOnLine with VirtualRegatta
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    Thx for the offer! I'll take you up on it, for sure!
  • 2010-07-28 14:34:40
    Re: Comparing SailingOnLine with VirtualRegatta
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    Thx Toño! Very helpful. The relearning curve will be steep for me. But I'm definitely seeing the light. I can't tell if my membership has expired. (Maybe I'll be informed?) I'll give it a go!
  • 2010-07-28 13:12:17
    Re: Comparing SailingOnLine with VirtualRegatta
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    I have to thank Toño for a GR8 comment! I'll make two responses:

    1. MP-VR has improved their game controls considerably since the VORG days. Give them credit. OTOH, it may have been too much, too soon of late. Last night's crash was maybe the next-to-last straw for me.

    2. Please correct me, if I am wrong about SOL. In SOL one can't be AFK too long, compared to MP-VR? That's my recollection from one very fun race some time ago? That format doesn't work well for my life style.

    3. What does SOL charge for each race?

    (sorry: 3 points)

    --- Last Edited by Doc Häagen-Dazs at 2010-07-28 13:12:57 ---
  • 2010-07-28 12:52:28
    Re: Comparing SailingOnLine with VirtualRegatta
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    I'll read Toño's comment in a minute. First I will have to post my extreme displeasure at MP-VR's crash in the Solitaire du Figaro race. The software shut down in the middle of the night and then resumed hours later. I was in 100th place. Now I am in 13,500th place, having crashed. I am just too .... out of sorts at the moment to comment further.
  • 2010-07-25 23:22:31
    Re: Comparing SailingOnLine with VirtualRegatta
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    Thanks for keeping this thread alive, Danny. I enjoyed my single SOL race. I think I like the graphics. I disclose I am much more of a sailor than a gamer. I am much more experienced with MP's VR software, and especially the extras which have recently been vastly improved. I am also familiar with the characters and adversaries I encounter there. I do not find anything negative to say about SOL. Far from it!
  • 2010-05-13 14:06:05
    Re: Comparing SailingOnLine with VirtualRegatta
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    I appreciate this comment too! I enjoyed my first and only sail on SOL. I soon got used to its format and liked the frequency of the racing. Much easier to log on, too!

    Virtual Regatta has improved and still is improving. That's where my ' virtual' friends are. Most importantly, longer races are more in tune with my real-world schedules. I'll probably stay there, going forward.

    I really am impressed with Jacob's ombudsmanship, however. And finally, when competitors are critically assessing the way a regatta - or any other sport/game - is managed, I always pay attention to their ranking on the leader boards. In this case, I find myself well below most skippers commenting on this thread!

    Enough said!
    :-)
  • 2010-02-24 16:22:42
    Re: Comparing SailingOnLine with VirtualRegatta
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    I agree!
  • 2010-02-23 16:06:39
    Re: Comparing SailingOnLine with VirtualRegatta
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    I do have to credit the SailingOnLine Forum with more cred than Virtual Regatta's Forum. In the latter case, my topic was just frozen. Some questions are not to be asked over there? Is it professional courtesy? Whatever! SOL Forums win by an horizon job!
  • 2010-02-23 03:28:32
    How Does One Withdraw from a Race...?
    Board » Technical Support
    ...before it starts? I entered the Caribbean Sprint 2010 before I realized it was a weekday race. I cannot indulge in that madness and still keep my job. I hate to take up another's position. Is there a way I can withdraw my boat?
  • 2010-02-23 03:21:51
    Re: Comparing SailingOnLine with VirtualRegatta
    Board » Sailonline Yacht Club
    Many thanks to all for the responses to my honest question. I thank Aethereal, especially, because he drew for us a distinction with a difference.

    I look forward to my next SOL experience.

Races

Next Race: 00d 00h 00m

Current Races:

Roma Giraglia Regata 2026

Our eighth race of nine to celebrate all things Mediterranean - fickle winds, history and olive oil – is another buddy-up; this one with the Circolo Nautico Riva di Traiano . Founded in 1984, as the new Traiano yacht Harbour neared completion, the Circola since then has developed into one of the major yachting competition centres in Italy, and next to the 450nm Roma per Tutti (which SOL buddied earlier in the year), the Roma Giraglia Regata is its other headline offshore event. First raced in 2005, the 210nm course takes competitors from Traiano to a rock on the inside of the Ile de la Giraglia off the northern tip of Corsica and back to the Italian mainland for a finish in the bay of Santo Stefano. We’re racing this one in our Class 40!
Race #2058
INFO by brainaid.de
Class 40 PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: MED - SUPBUD - SYC
Race starts: Oct 08th 16:00 Registration Open!

▶ Flash
GO TO RACE

Arctic Tern - Greenland to Antarctica 2025

Welcome to the fifth leg of our MIG series. Now it's time to race the Arctic Terns, on their migration from Greenland to Antarctica, 8300 NM. This is also part of our monthly Ocean Championship, and as such the first race of OCQ4 2026. This race will be sailed in our Maxi Trimaran. Race #2061
INFO by brainaid.de
Maxi Trimaran PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230 Ranking:
OCQ4 - OCCH - SYC - MIG
Race starts: Oct 05th 11:00 Registration Open!
▶ Flash
GO TO RACE

Bornholm PYOC


Welcome to the Baltic Sea, where we are about to hold another sprint race. The course runs from the north to the south of the beautiful Bornholm island. There are only two waypoints, the start and the finish so the choice of which side of the island to sail along is up to you. Our Albin 79s will cover a distance of approximately 23 nautical miles.
Race #2064
INFO by brainaid.de
Albin 79 PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: SPQ4 - SPCH - SYC
Race starts: Oct 03rd 06:00 Registration Open!
▶ Flash
GO TO RACE

Cross the Convergence 2026 - Masirah to Chagos


Having crossed, re-crossed and re-re-crossed the Convergence Zones of the Pacific and the Atlantic, we now face our second crossing of the Convergence Zone of the World’s third great equator-spanning sea, the Indian Ocean, taking us from the channel between Masirah Island and the Oman mainland to the Chagos Archipelago. It’s 1900nm and we’ll be sailing our very fine Archer 78, and won’t mention that both locations (of departure and arrival) are heavily militarized and the why’s and what next’s concerning that – mindful as always of SOL Netiquette.
Race #1988
INFOby brainaid.de
Archer 78PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: CCZ - SYC
Race starts: Oct 02nd 18:00 Registration Open!
▶ Flash
GO TO RACE

Carib Rum Run 2026


Ahoy, ye landlubbers and seasoned salts! Welcome back to Sailonline’s legendary Carib Rum Run, perfectly timed to kick off on International Talk Like a Pirate Day, 19 September!

This year, we command the magnificent Falkun—the ultimate high-tech superyacht modeled after the iconic Maltese Falcon. This 1759nm slalom takes us through the Caribbean’s rum islands to plunder barrels from local distilleries and deliver them to the rum-parched sands of Cancun.

Join SYC before the finish to disguise yer boat with a pirate name for this race only. Hoist the sails, sharpen yer cutlasses, and plot your winning course!
Race #2060
INFO by brainaid.de
Falkun PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: SYC
Race starts: Sep 19th 05:00 Registration Closed
▶ Flash
GO TO RACE

Go to race archive

SYC Ranking

  1. Sailonline Yacht Club Member KaSToR
  2. Sailonline Yacht Club Member CriticalHippo
  3. Sailonline Yacht Club Member WRmirekd
  4. Sailonline Yacht Club Member rafa
  5. Sailonline Yacht Club Member Panpyc
  6. Sailonline Yacht Club Member cdhinman
  7. Sailonline Yacht Club Member rumskib
  8. Sailonline Yacht Club Member rthinman
  9. Sailonline Yacht Club Member BRENTGRAY
  10. Sailonline Yacht Club Member Sax747

View full list

Series

Mobile Client

SYC members have the benefit of access to our mobile/lightweight web client!

The mobile client