SZ Designs opens shop in Germania Seagull!

SZ Designs is opening a new shop in the most beautiful sim, Germania Seagull. This is absolute must place to visit by anyone enjoying serene and tranquil places, breathtaking sceneries, sailing in pictoresque waters and meeting friendly people.
The docks where the SZ Designs shop building is located, opens into a traditional looking port with seawalls [...]

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Hollywood Marine Mall

Nber and MarkTwain have been opening a new shop for nautical items, called Hollywood Marine Mall. You can also find all the SZ Designs antique nautical and maritime items, as well as the custom sails selection there. The new mall is conveniently located right next door to the Starboards Yacht Club.
And for the christmas season [...]

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Big October Sale at SZ Designs – 50% Off Sails and Nautical Items

In order to celebrate few exciting upcoming events in advance – will post about them more bit later this coming week – SZ Designs is having a Big October Sale going from Oct 14th to Oct 20th.
All vendor sold Flying Tako sails, and all the antique nautical and maritime items and sailing accessories are discounted [...]

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Custom Sails

I have been doing personalized custom sails for the Flying Tako boats since April 2006. And I got into this sailmaking thing sort of by an accident. I had been thinking that I would like to create something here in SL – but I didn’t have a clue what I should do. I did have [...]

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One-stop yacht shopping

Over time I have tried to create a place in Second Life, where people new to SL sailing could easily find out about boats, yacht clubs and other sailing related things. And as part of this have tried to offer a selection of wind powered boats that might spark the interest of someone, who maybe [...]

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Pearl

This was a project that took some time to get finished, with some unexpected things happening and then arranging the boat to be sold from a vendor (it is still a Tako, so Kanker owns the vendor) … and in the very end Kanker also updated the Tako to version 3.3 – so Pearl was [...]

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Navigating around the waters … with buoys

Couple weeks ago I introduced a selection of nautical navigation buoys, the first incarnation of these appeared at the Relay for Life sailing sim this summer. The buoys are based on the IALA defined lateral and cardinal marks (find out here more about what that exactly means) … or in other words similar buoys [...]

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Starting the SZ Designs blog…

.. so what is this all about? I will try to mostly gather the information about product updates, new items and such here – so there would be one place to find about them and learn more about new products too. And most likely present pictures too.
The in-world product update groups are more or less [...]

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