All the designs were very creative. We have created a gallery at the ACA32 Operations Building in SL if you would like to see the designs and we invite all of you to post your boat pictures at http://www.flickr.com/groups/aca32/. 
For the best designs we have space at ACA marina if you would like to showcase your ACA32 sails design. Send an IM to Florencia007 Csak. 



Thank you to all the participants! 

Florencia007 Csak  

How to participate:
Submit a picture of your ACA32 sailboat design by sending an e-mail to fsanmartin@9th.com with subject “ACA32 Sails Design Contest”, include your avatar’s name.
Note: to participate you must have the “ACA 32″ brand name on your main sail (not like in the picture above).

Deadline:
November 30th 2007

Awards:
Lindens $1.500 + sailboat dock at ACA’s marina for your ACA32 sailboat.

Florencia007 Csak
9th.com, President
ACA Management

SL group: AmericasCupAnywhere
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/aca32
Blog: http://aca32.wordpress.com

1. Instructions and support:
If you have questions, write a comment on this blog and I will reply ASAP or IM me inworld at Florencia007 Csak

2. Edit PSD file in Photoshop:
You will find 2 psd files in your ZIP:
- ACA32-main-9th.psd (main sail)
- ACA32-jib-9th.psd (jib sail)

• Create your design in or bellow the layer named: “your design here”
• You will also find a layer called “mask help” to create a new mask if needed.
• Turn on guidelines and you will see where you need to cut the file to create 3 files of 1024×1024 for the main sail (top,mid,bot) and 2 files of 1024×1024 for the jib sail. (top,bot)
• When you are done with your design, turn off comments layer, save the psd file with different files names like -top,-mid,-bottom at the end for the main sail and -top,-bot for the jib psd file.
• Open the psd files and crop them using the guidelines to make the 1024×1024 size files
• Save as .tga format with 32bit each file and you are ready to import into SL your textures.

3. Edit ACA32 sails in Second Life:
Please keep the ACA 32 brand on your new sails. Thank you!

• Import your new textures
• Drop your ACA32 Racer on the floor. To see the sails, sit on the sklipper ball (the red one) and issue the /1 showsail chat command. Right click to edit.
• Click “Select Texture” and touch only the side of the prim you want to replace with the new texture. Do not replace all the sides because the prim sides for the borders are transparent.
• Select the texture and replace it with new one from your library
• Do the same for all parts of the sails till you have your new sails design completed
• Take a copy of your new ACA32 Racer back to your inventory and use this new copy from now on. (I suggest that you keep the original as a backup)

You can buy the ACA32 Racer from ACA sims in Second Life:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/AmericasCupAnywhere/128/128/0

ACA32 SAILS DESIGN CONTEST
How to participate:
Submit a picture of your ACA32 sailboat design by sending an e-mail to fsanmartin@9th.com with subject “ACA32 Sails Design Contest”, include your avatar’s name.
Note: to participate you must have the ACA32 brand name on your main sail.

Deadline:
November 30th 2007

Awards:
Lindens $1.500 + sailboat dock at ACA’s marina for your ACA32 sailboat.

Florencia007 Csak
9th.com, President
ACA Management

SL group: AmericasCupAnywhere
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/aca32
Blog: http://aca32.wordpress.com

Come and visit us at the boat show.

This will be a MAJOR show and attraction to all sailboat lovers.

The show will be held in the entire marina of Sailors Cove
– home of Tradewinds Yacht Club
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Anchor%20Cove/195/186/25

See you there
Florencia Csak

These gestures will speed your sail trimming and increase your sailing precision. Once you have confidence in using them, you will not need to use time consuming keyboard commands or the HUD.

Before you activate the gestures you must assign them to function keys. To assign a gesture to a function key, right click on it and select open. In the gesture window select a shortcut key which you want to use for that gesture.

To activate these gestures, right click on each gesture and click activate. Once active, your function keys F2 through F10 will send silent chat commands to your boat. I strongly suggest writing the list of gestures down on a piece of paper for quick reference while you are sailing. They will quickly become second nature.

Cory Copeland

The Big Cat Race Autumn series starts on Thursday 4th October:

Race times are entered into the database immediately after each race. Click on the race above to view the race times.

Abella Beck won the first ever Big Cat Cup by a huge margin and is back for more in the Autumn cup.

CONGRATULATIONS!! from ACA

PST*YHC will be hosting friendly japan races on Tuesdays from 6am to 8am SLT.

Please contact Taku Raymaker for more information on PST*YHC races.

All the best,
Florencia007 Csak
ACA Management
9th.com President and Founding Partner