Thursday, September 23, 2010

VCC 82™ release Saturday 25 11 am sl.

Press release: Vuitton Cup Class 82™ To be Released this Saturday 25 11:00 AM SL.
Place :New Golden Gates Yacht Club and World Sailing Center . Home of SL Vuitton Cup And Trophy .
New Class: Virtual Yacht Class Racer.                       
Location TBA in Secondlife,
 VCC 25 meters . . LOA.
 Beam .4,0 meters
 Main . 24.8 meters
 Genoa.22.10
 Spinnaker.20.20 .


Monday, September 20, 2010

>The Louis Vuitton Cup is one of the most famous and prestigious competitions in the sport of yachting because of its relationship to the America's Cup. The Louis Vuitton Cup was used as the selection series to select the team to sail as the challenger in the America's Cup. Since the inception of the Louis Vuitton Cup four out of the six winners have subsequently won the America's Cup itself.

Congratulations on your purchase of Vuitton Cup Class Racer TM . This one-design vessel was engineered for the sole purpose of keeping the mono hull tradition in cup racing alive in SecondLife .

Every part of this vessel was sculpted and designed from scratch . Our team traveled to the real world Louis Vuitton Trophy to examine current IACC vessels. The sails are from actual swatches shore crew members gave us.

The hull was designed from a combination of the current hulls used by Mascalzone Latino and BMW Oracle, the result being a hybrid one-design hull that we are proud to introduce as VCC 84 ™ , designed and sculpted by ReneMarine™. The New Xwing Hydro dynamic keel was designed by Jethro2112 Sands .

Don Berithos commissioned the Vuitton Cup Class Racer in May of 2010. Upon seeing the ReneMarine J-Class in February, his view seemed clear and the future bright . He then traveled to Italy to meet with the Louis Vuitton Trophy personnel and top executives to the teams, as well as the shore crews who build and maintain current fleets. He was allowed access to current hulls and gear layouts and visited the sail lofts daily to watch their magic .

This new class yacht for virtual sailing is intended to broaden the sailors’ choices in SL sailing and match racing, as well as fleet . Designed to beat the lag, we have kept the scripts to a minimum.

The wind and speed polars are truly the greatest part of this yacht, as are her full-sized genoa and RM Sculptee Sails .™ and the full-sized spinnaker is designed to optimize the hull forward planing aspects.

Windshadow has been keep to minimum for two reasons:

One - being overshadow from lag in SL. I have yet to see a boat this works properly on, and
Two - the Match Race Fun Factor.

We could have put all the bells and whistles we want in her . This is a racer and racing in SecondLife’s current platform, these scripts will and do tax the systems and create sim locks . If one really needs the real life sailing experience, there are other sites for that such as Virtual Skipper 5. We modeled our sailing characteristics on the Virtual Skipper 5 model.

Fit and finish. The VCC 84™ Is a custom Sculptee Hull with RM SCULPTEE SAILS ™ which can be textured easily. The VCC 84 ™ Genoa well, that’s our trade secret and we will be happy to customize one for you . Templates available at VCC 84 ™ racers site.

Sailing the VCC 84 ™ The ReneMarine Digtial Hud is simple and easy to operate .
Degrees apparent wind are displayed on the easy to read compass.
Windspeed indicator is also displayed in mls .
Speed is displayed in mls .
Course heading is displayed next
Bottom row the function buttons from left to right are as follows .

Button One: raises sails
Button Two: raises and lowers spinnaker and genoa
Button Three: float option
Button Four : TBA
Button Five: moor

Simple, easy, low lag .

Wind : VCC 84 ™ accepts current WWC windsetters in SecondLife .
Simply subscribe to a windsetter at any line in SL or use your own .
VCC 84 ™ will lock the wind and remember it so each time you take it out of inventory
there’s wind available .

Race ID: Boat operates on channel zero - simply type in id xxxx
We’ve tested the boat and found no unique channel needed as it only listens to the owner .
Vessel will carry two sailors only, although others may sit on it, keeping animations to minimum.

Gestures: assign to your favorite keys.
Raise Sail - sail raises and genoa
Lower Sail - lowers to floating state
Moor - moors vessel to anchored state
Raise Spinnaker - spinnaker raises and genoa lowers and vice versa

VCC 84 ™ Collapsible Spinnaker.
ReneMarine ™Sculptee Collapsible Spinaker ™ You’re in for big surprise. As in RL, if you sail to a head of the wind , the spinnaker will collapse and you must lower manually. You will get a penalty ,also .

Showsail option :Real racers hide theirs .
There is none . If you must show your sails simply edit boat check edit linked ,
click the sail you want to display and then change transparency in the texture tab .
Do this also to set your favorite alpha setting. We recommend for the spinnaker 20 at least
and 12 for the rest.
above is displayed a IACC CLASS used in current Vuitton from past Americas cup ©http://www.americascup.com/
This is for display and informational purposes only .

VCC 84™2010 . ReneMarine™2010. Louis Vuitton Trophy and Cup are protected.Trademarks and all rights reserved.
Americas cup 34 and America's Cup©registered copyrighted all rights resevered.