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Originally Posted by Lo Jacobs  What is it that boaters and aviators do in SL? (Genuinely curious!) |
That's a good question. They do just about everything imaginable. The boating community is basically quite widespread and fairly well organized. I don't know that much about the power boaters, but I know they cruise around from sim to sim and I know they have races. I'm a sailor so I know more about that. There are several yacht clubs and even more marinas where you can launch a boat and sail out into Linden waters. LL has actually done a fairly decent job of creating Linden waters where you can sail without running into ban lines and similar annoyances. They created an area called the Blake sea that contains several sims of just water and a few non residential islands. there are sail boat races, literally every day. Most, but not all, of the mainland is connected to this. What I like to do is long distance sailing. I rez a boat at my sim [quite luckily, my sim is connected to Linden water] and pick a place to sail to. With a little luck, I can make it. Sim crossings are the big problem. Its beter than it used to be, but there are times when its prety bad -like the weekends when there are over 70,000 AVs signed in. I belong to a club that does two long distanc esails a week - one on tuesday which I can't do cause I'm at work and one on Sunday. After the cruise, we have a party at one of the hosting marinas. There are people who into the pirate thing and I've heard there may be even a pirate area inthe works so that the pirates can have sea battles.
The pilots aren't as well organized as the sailors, but there are a few groups for them as well, including NorthStar Fliers which is one of the smaller ones. More and more airports and landing strips are springing up. Some people just like to fly. Some like air to air combat. I fly kind of like how I sail. I like to launch my sea plane and then just fly to another location, be it a landing strip or even land it inthe water. I plan on buying a helicopter soon, since that is actually a great vehicle for sight seeing.
I don't have any personal experience, but knowing human nature and
SL i suspect strongly that people are not only having sexual activity on their boats but I'm positive that a few of them have figured out how to do it in an aircraft as well.
I hope this answers your question.
Sooz