Socially|Mundane

I looked and looked and looked but I just could not find the giant graffiti sign that said "Torley was here - LULZ!"

I really enjoy cruising the grid in my tall ship. I have a fleet of them more or less, but sometimes I really like to take-out my gunboat. The prim build is stunning and it certainly is one of those joyful-surprises, quality-wise. Among the (very few) best purchases I have made in three years.

And it even takes damage if "UR doin' it wrong!":

Yes, there is the Blake Sea, but the problem with the Blake Sea is that the entire area is a no-rez zone, save for little square parcels slat-and-peppered through-out where you can rez your boat and off you go. However, the island areas are beautiful builds and there is a lot to see and explore. However, the better boats in Sl are two-parts: the main hull and the attachable "detail" portion, built this way to get around the 32-prim limit on moving vehicles.

And many areas of the mainland are interesting and quite beautiful, especially the Linden-provided builds:

Unfortunately, some regions - those water or shoreline regions can be a problem. As a rule, Linden Lab includes an openspace region next to shoreline regions as an "ocean-buffer" - but sometimes they don't. Part of the challenge of sailing coastlines comes in navigating those areas where residents use every inch of land "space" they have, even when they don;t need to. As I sail from my berth in Neobelow and make my way to the Blake Sea and back, there are a couple of challenging spots. But fortunately there is just enough room to squeeze even my huge Frigate through. Kind of like a micro-Suez-canal.

Fortunately, on those sims at the edge of the series of regions (a hard-edge) - I can usually squeeze through. Until I run into something like this...

A bridge. One. Single.

Bridge.

Here it is with water-rendering turned-off so you can see what I mean:

/me weeps.

This one bridge is blocking my access to the entire northern half of the continent, spoiling everything. I mean, c'mon! Do you really have to build right to the very edge of the world?

You obviously don't sail or own a boat in Second Life, do you?