The grand opening of the winter fair, 15 dec 2024 with DJ Melanie Auxifur

Wow, so many people visited the party! And went to the market as well! 

Many thanks to all the merchants, One Andonly for sponsoring the " lucky ducky" lottery and all who helped building and making pictures and video.

Of course we want to see who was wearing what outfit and who was tipsy and who danced with who.......

watch video of the winter fair opening party

Colonization of Celyddon Utopia!

Ahoyy captains !! The Catronians sailed a long way to the home base of the Celyddon Navy, they found a little island, uninhabited and with a beautiful nature, so they explored and found a perfect home base! What a surprise it was when they found out there are caves, lots of wood to use for repairing ships , and a perfect place as a start of the colonization of the new lands. The booze and the gold is hidden, the fires are burning, and the cannons are loaded! 

Kitely's winter fair 15 dec- 15 jan

We are organizing a winter fair for all merchants who like to do some advertisement for their work. We offer you a little market stall where you can put some vendors or boxes to show off your work. Freebees are encouraged but not needed of course. (it has nothing to do with sailing and so, but well, just an addition to the winter holidays)

The market is on a winter themed platform sized about 12 sims. Most of the platform is used for our 11 cities skating tour, that has been popular every year and will give the skaters who finished the tour and collected all stamps, a nice prize. The landscape is wonderfully made with islands and lots of possibilities to skate, get lost, and find shelter in little cabins.

In the middle of the platform is a Dutch themed snowy city, with a small market place reserved for merchant guests who like to expose their work.
If you are interested to use one of the little stalls:
HOW TO GET THERE:

grid.kitely.com:8002:Catronian Archipelago. Use the winter fair sign. Pick TWO stalls you like and rezz a prim so people see its taken. It is popular it seems so make sure you check it our fast. When there are no stalls left, we will make more ( IM me )

The fair will be opened Sunday the fifteenth of December , close to winter holidays , starting with a party with DJ Melanie Auxifur

New buildings at Ravensteijn 's docks 

Smugglers activities? Apparently there are activities at the north side of Ravensteijn and little Fishermans houses and merchant shops are built. It seems the smugglers are doing well in their trades! Official opening will be announced. 

News of the week! Friday 25 oct

BATTLE LOGS Oct 25, 2024

Halloo there. Cap'n Snoots Dwagon filling in for Trouble Ahead, cos she is swamped. I've been asked to recount the recent ship battles, so I'll do my best.

I was late to the event and totally missed the first battle. So obviously that was totally irrelevant, since no Dwagons there.

The SECOND battle however, that was something. Every captain was in good form, and had some surprising turnouts. We had five Captains and it seemed the entire battle consisted of us all shooting at anything that moved. The Captains were Trouble Ahead, One and Only, Till Underspiel, Ballyrae Hanly and myself, Snoots Dwagon. We're not 100% sure who sank whom, except we know of two definite battles:

Surprisingly, Captain One was sunk by Trouble Ahead... certainly a rare happening since One is the master of the long shot. Congrats Trouble on that one. Cap'n One took it in good graces and commented on the skills of all the Captains that day.

The Rabid Pink Pirates (Captain: me) managed to sink two ships. I don't remember who the first was because cannonballs were flying fast and furious. I will say however that every Captain fought honorably and bravely. We faced off head to head and all did their best, no dirty tricks.

For me the most memorable battle was between the final two ships: The DEADLY SMUGGLER (Cap'n Trouble Ahead) was staring straight at the Rabid Pink Pirates (moi), and we both began our run. What neither of us realized is that both of us were down to 3 points and either or both of us could be sunk. We simply came at each other straight on, come what may. Canons fired and after the passing... the Deadly Smuggler kissed the bottom and the Rabid Pink Pirates somehow managed to sail by with all three points intact. That was a fine and honorable battle, one of the best I've seen. All observers remarked enjoying watching that final run.

Overall it was a fine day for sailing and the battles were enjoyable, with everyone in good spirits. We gathered at the docks afterward and had a nice chat before having to leave for Ratty Life.

Documented and signed-- Captain Snoots Dwagon, the Rabid Pink Pirates
--o--

News of the week! Friday 11 oct

Today it was certainly payday! All captains sailed the Niitti gunboat and it was really a tough battle. Sailing captains: One Andonly, Snoots Dwagon, Till Uhlenspiegel, Captain Bally, and Trouble Ahead. Hitting the enemy was not easy, so it took the captains a long time until just two captains remained , Snoots and Trouble. Trouble ran Snoots on the rocks ( very harsh.. yes ... ) and shot him to the bottom of the sea. Celyddons commander finally received his gold coins: as a support for the building of a new colony on a new grid. 

Great fun as ever!

The Celyddon crew is building a colony on a new grid Utopia where all our ships sail very well, so we can have more sailing waters to organise battles or just sail for fun. When all is ready we will publish the grids URL. We will explore new seas!

News of the week! Friday 27 sept

Mike Mchugh came to Catronian Archipelago to make a video about daily life on the sims, and that means a lot of flying bullets , ships, booze, crazy people and laughter. Go check it out here! (made with the purpose of promotion of the Kitely grid)

Daily life on Catronian Archipelago

After the video shooting people gather at the Northern Pearl, Captain Snoots flagship, for a chat, a dance and bongo lessons, as you can see below. Left to right: Melanie Auxifur on bongo, Trouble Ahead in a tipsy dance, Snoots Dwagon teaching, Commander Bally keeping an eye on everything, One Andonly in rhythm, and Till Uhlenspiegel as ambassador of the Celyddon Navy.  

News of the week! Friday 13 sept 

A "whatever works" battle today!  All kinds of ships sailed today, what ships are surviving the best? Gunboats? No. Statenjacht? No. Duyfken: she is tough to sink! Good chance she might be the best! Batavia and Sea Eagle : this tall ships just give the others a lot of bullets and stay afloat for a long time! 

News of the week! 8 sept 

HALLOWEEN EVENT/CONTEST: scary ships! 

Ahoy captains! We organize a " DECORATE YOUR SHIP HALLOWEEN THEME" contest. All ships of all builders will be allowed to join the contest and the most creative and scary ship will win a prize in KC's. We would to like to do a cruise with the ships so the jury can make a decision ( date of the event will be announced). When you want to join with your ship, please give your name to Trouble Ahead.

News of the week! 23 aug

After all captains returned from holiday , we started the new season with a race on Friday! And a messy one too! Some captains sailed Duyfken, others sailed their Statenjacht , resulting with two winners: round one One Andonly, round two Captain Okwaho Euler. It seems sailing different ships in this race adds some fun and people can chose for the defensive or offensive strategy :)  It was funny to see captains navigating to avoid all the floating barrels in sea, and others dropping exploding barrels on the helpless ships coming too close!

Race track wit gates will be stay so captains will be able to test their ships and make a good choice for next week's race. 

News of the week! 12 July

A video of tonights battle , for downloading and watching! Round one : After this nasty stern shooter One hit all the players in the field,  Commander Bally jumped in at the right moment and sunk him. Round two was for the fisherman One Andonly, enjoy watching !

Video movie  of a battle in bird eye perspective

News of the week! 1 July 

Tall ships can be bothered by little gun boats .. and can't hit them with cannons, because they are just too high to be aimed well !! Some smart captain thought... we need to throw them little ships barrels on their heads !!!! So been said, the Duyfken crew  ( see pic below) will be able to push off barrels overboard and let them fall on the attacking ships!! The nasty barrels explode! Even when drifting ( they will 30 seconds , they will explode when ships hulls touch them, so dangerous for the stern hunting captains too!!

This version of SPD Duyfken is scripted by Christine Nyn and in its final stage of testing, soon ready for release! 

News of the week! 29 may 2024 HG Safari group visited!!!!!!!!

It was making us nervous! What happens when we will have a group at about 20 persons , let them walk through a teleporter gate, invite them to sail in drivable little boats for a tour?? How will the 4x4 world behave on such an invasion all at once! That's a hard one!! Especially when there are many scripted objects. We had no idea if the groups boating would work well.
This is what happened to us at Wednesday the 29 th and it was nerve wrecking , but finally all went well, 29! visitors came to explore and after some heavy loading people raced around in their little boats and made fun.

If you want to read their comments on worlds performance and see the pictures ( they are fun) here is their presentation on the HG safari website.
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/05/t ... i.html?m=1

News of the week! 24 may 2024 HG Safari group will visit !!!

News of the week! 11 may 2024

Two rounds of a stunning FFA mid class ships battle! Captains were miss Jennifer Law, Snoots Dwagon, One Andonly Ballyrae Hanly, Till Uhlenspiegel, Melanie Auxifur, Trouble Ahead. Captains used refined tactics and round one was won by Till with Melanie as a gunner... last ones standing after all the other captains sunk each other. Second round was won by Snoots, who had a thrilling face to face battle with One Andonly, both were low HP and Snoots hit One with one last broadside to the bottom of the ocean.

( Picture below: One chasing Snoots, while commander Ballyrae is having his last moments, with a burning ship) 

News of the week! 28 April 2024

Tactics!!!

Now we are done with the stress tests from latest weeks, we only find there is some bad weather every now and then, so most of the time all works fine with ships and sims performance.

The Celyddon captains sail with gunner Melanie , and she is a deadly gunner.

Fridays battle was great fun. Captains Snoots, Bally, Till , Melanie, One, and Trouble sailed their midd class ships and ... all captains had a plan before starting sailing! Was it hiding, was it focus on certain captains? Did they team up? For sure it was seen that all captains were very cautious and hiding behind islands and just attack now and then!  It lasted a while before the first holes in their sails appeared and some captains started  to hunt others seriously! Many nice maneuvers were seen and well aimed long distance shots as well! At the end two captains remained, Captain One and Only, and miss Trouble who had been hiding most of the time, waiting until other ships have severe damage and giving them their last blast. Yes, captain One also was victim tonight and sinks as last One. It was great fun! 

News of the week! 30 march 2024

Who can sink the white flag ship?? Tonight was the training ship test and all captains chased the ship with the white flag ( Christine Nyn made a ship in a rezzer for new captains to learn to sail, flying a white sail, we tested her.. she sunk very soon and working well! We have a great ship for sailing lessons in a rezzer now. Yay!! Okwaho Euler sank the white flag training ship, and Snoots was winner of the FFA , last captain sailing, below the picture of the sinking of Okwaho by captain Snoots Dwagon. 

News of the week! 23 march 2024

Spring party and lottery!

Thomas Swift won the lottery prize: shopping for an easter gift in Kitely 's market! DJ Melanie surprised us again with a wonderful playlist and a lot of party lovers came to join the event !

Mermaids in town 

More fishies in the sea! Miss Marilee Mermaid got her little home on the bottom of the ocean near Port Celyddon. If you are silent , you might hear her sing.... 

News of the week! 15 march 2024

Friday's battle.. navy sailed out with two ships and one gunner, pirates had three ships, all sailing Statenjacht this time. Captains chose to set sail in the south, chosing the difficult part of the sims to sail.. lots of islands to sail around and the risk to run ground! It was a hard fight, where it seemed all wanted to sink the deadly smuggler as first, so Trouble run ground close to western island shores and got her final shot by Till Uhlenspiegel with the countess as a gunner. The pirates Snoots and Okwaho destroyed the remained Navy captains, and finally both incapped, so .... two winners this evening , Snoots Dwagon and Okwaho Euler, but one can ask what is to win when having burning ships? Captains sailed excellent! It was a hard fight. 

The gossip club....

Did you know, on every  Monday 12 AM, the ladies Cata , Sea and Trouble  gather in Chez Hans Restaurant to talk about the news ( or is it gossip? ) 

News of the week! 9 march 2024 

Fridays battle was a test battle on sim performance, and .. sims were good and navy sunk! As a result taxes were raised! The countess got a heavyly armed ship tonight to defend Port Celyddon. 

Captain Snoots Dwagon started a cat sanctuary at his place, and seems to be a good veterinarian as well. All who needs medical assistance on cats, please call him!

Okwaho made a new dinghy, a rum smuggler. We are considering to organise a race with Bwind ships and some elements of surprise! Also the CA sims will be promoted in the 2025 oS fairy and an event on the Craft Grid. 

News of the week!  23 feb 2024 

Tall ship battle on Friday! One ship with crew , two ships only captains. All sailing Batavia Galleon. Final moment was between the Celyddon galleon and someone called " a smuggler" and only with one HP difference ( !) the navy sunk , and one burning ship was left! No one was able to confiscate the cargo, everything burned! Captains sailed very well and it was fun seeing all ships under full sail in combat. 

Opening of new restaurant in Port of Morgan

Chef cook Hans Worst opened his restaurant in Port of Morgan, a stylish Michelin star restaurant , serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. From traditional dishes like fish and chips to the more refined choices. Of course ice and mousse desserts with fresh fruits are served. He can use some kitchen staff, dishwashers mainly. IM Hans Worst if you are interested!

News of the week!  16 feb 2024 

Fridays battle result: two rounds in mid class ships: round one some captains run ground and results are equal: no one won!!!  We saw the commander Bally sailing nakid ( a degradation of the Navy standards), he could not find his new clothes! Round two was won by Snoots Dwagon, close fight to Trouble who lost the one to one battle with Snoots. It was great fun again and good sailing too!!

News of the week!  4 feb 2024 

Valentine day is coming! For the ones who like to surprise their love, we made a tower with a perfect atmosphere to have privacy and romance. A dinner for two, fresh baked cakes, champagne , candle light, and the possibility to stay over the night! Moor your sailing boat and enjoy your unforgettable Valentines day! Teleport at landing point is called " love nest". 

HG Safari group is visiting CA!!

The HG Safari group  is a group that visits places of interest in all grids and decided to visit ours in spring on a Wednesday evening.  We will plan a guided water taxi tour for them to inform them in a funny way what happens on the sims. See link below:

HG Safari Group

Friday's battle s result 2 feb 2024 

We did a race. Three captains sailing , countess Melanie as a passenger in round one, and this brings luck! Her ship ended first today. Round two was won by Okwaho Euler who chased Trouble's stern very badly, bringing her down to 10 so her speed lowered, he took his chance, and sailed out of her cannon range and finished as first. Good race and great fun! 

News of the week! 

14-01-2024

A new landing point was made to make it more easy for people to find things. 

22-12-2023

For celebrating holidays we made a snow world with a skating tour with eleven checkpoints with stamps. Those who collect the stamps will get the " Eleven cities cross" trophy. You can find the teleporter near landing point. The snow world will stay online also after the holidays. 

DJ Melanie Auxifurs performance at 22 th dec 2023 in snow world 

News of the week!

18-11-2023

Fridays battle: sink the galleon! Batavia Galleon sailed, chased by Ballyrae Hanley in his Lorcha and Judge Snoots Dwagon in his Statenjacht. How come we heard people calling " Sink the Judge" so often?? Instead of that, the Galeon was sunk amazingly fast, even she tried to hide far away from the attacking ships. The two captains who stayed afloat ended the fight in a heroic battle, ending very close with the sinking of the navy, with the smuggler Trouble and her ever screaming parrot Tony also aboard. Yes, the Judge survived!

News of the week!

A mysterious captain Tivvi Tuuli sent a message he found a huge chest with coins on Okwaho's island , which appeared to be Navy loot!! He spent a lot of coins in many grids in all the pubs, gave all the people there free rum, and we wonder.. how did the chest came on Okwaho's island, why did the Navy lost so much tax money? We need to solve the riddle. Can we find the loot on Okwaho's island ? 

News of the week!

SUMMARY OF THE COURT EVENT 27-10-2023 AT PORT OF MORGAN S COURT HALL: THE ACCUSATION OF OKWAHO EULER STEALING BOOZE OUT OF THE NAVY S CELLARS

-At the courts wall is a picture of Okwaho s cellar showing barrels with alcoholic ( rum or whiskey) The picture was made by Judge Snoots Dwagon, who got a tip about stolen barrels from the Celyddon Navy cellars. Snoots inspected Okwa's cellar, made a picture to bring in as a proof.
-For some mysterious reason Judge Snoots does not appear at court and Governor Morgan takes his place.
A hilarious conversation starts. People who appeared into court:

Accused : Ohwaho Euler.
His defendant: Cata Raven.
Representative of the Navy: Ballyrae Hanly.
His defendant: Till Uhlenspiegel.
Witness: Trouble Ahead.
Replacement of the apparently drunken judge Snoots Dwagon: Governor Morgan of Port of Morgan

First part of the conversation is the proof brought in against Okwaho.
There are remarks from the Navy on Okwa's looks, a pirate. Pirates are always guilty! There is a picture on the wall, with the so called stolen goods. Okwaho s defense brings in : "only the looks of a person is no proof at all"
Witness Trouble Ahead brings in her part of the story. Okwaho showed her the booze in his cellar, telling her he shipped it from Port Celyddon s island and both got drunk at this occasion. They both got sick from it. It seems judge Snoots Dwagon was tipped about this and he took action by inspecting Okwa s cellar and making a picture for evidence.

Question one of the governor: was the navy missing any booze? If so, was it legally bought? Defender Till told the court it was brought to Celyddon for a special occasion and paid for, but commander Bally also mentions confiscation at sea and the fact confiscations by the navy are always legal.

Defender Cata brings in ( supported by Trouble), the Navy confiscates whatever it wants and this can be seen as thievery as well.

Confusion in court appears! It seems all parties are thieves!!
Governor Morgan states :
-pictures are no evidence
-there are no marks or stamps on the barrels that shows it was original Navy booze
-there are no witnesses who saw Okwaho actually sailing around with the barrels.
- The officers who confiscated the barrels were Commander Ballyrae Hanly and Till Uhlenspiegel There is no proof the booze was confiscated legally.
- As it appears the Judge Snoots Dwagon, who brought in the evidence ( the picture) seems to be snorting in his bed and too drunk to show up in court, might be bribed! The barrels show no marks of the navy! ( this remark was made by commander Ballyrae Hanly)

This of course is a serious accusation made by the navy!

[13:12] Captain Morgan: accusing the court of bribery is serious allegation Officer Bally
[13:13] Ballyrae Hanly: not the court just the judges!
[13:13] Till Uhlenspiegel looks at the Commander
[13:13] Captain Morgan: if you keep this going i will have strip you from your title and put you in the rum cellar to live with the mice!

For some reason Commander Ballyrae starts a conversation about thievery amongst mice: there are always mice in cellars, and more irrelevant things. All people involved ask Governor Morgan to make a final judgment in this case and ending the nonsense talk in court.

And this is Governor Morgans conclusion:

"Considering that fact that there no hard evidence that he ( Okwaho) actually stole it from the Navy cellar and also there no evidence or a way to identify the confiscated items. i here by declare okwaho a free man. And i order the navy conduct the full investigation on how the items went missing right under there nose which is really embarrassing."

Taking the right to appeal commander Ballyrae and his officers will do further investigations on the case.
Defender Cata Raven and Okwaho Euler leave the court room relieved.

At this point Judge Snoots appears in court, asking if he can lead Case two ( the case about tax laws) but the defendant Till Uhlenspiegel leaves court and Commander Bally will not have protection in his case, so no more procedures. How come , the judge is late? How come the Ceyddon navy mentions bribing? We need to clear this!

At the end , governor Morgan and Trouble Ahead brought up the idea to put judge Snoots Dwagon a full week in Bombards Prison to get sober , and to be punished to be too late in Court, for this can be the only verdict with proof of the evening :)

02-09-2023

News of the week !

No battle this week. 

Desmond Lane was responsible for the illegal conviction of Miss T Ahead by sitting on CA s judge s Snoots Dwagon chair, illegal. Punishment was spanking when there was no crime proven nor any accusations done by anybody . Nurse Sea Pearl was sent in to check out Desmonds mental health. Honorable Judge Major Snoots Dwagon "Breather of fires" will take measures. 

Party in CA's theatre : 8 th of sept 1.PM viewer time

Miss Melanie Auxifur will play for us all in the theatre to celebrate a good start of the autumn and a new start of a new season to come. Theme will be " mushroom". All welcome. There will be a lottery duck and some prices to give again: and themed wearable balloons and drinks. 

18-07-2023 Medical services by Miss Sea Pearl

We gladly announce the new medical services in Port Hope 's hospital. As many sailors need treatment our new nurse miss Sea Pearl  is available for all services . The hospital is equipped with all medical needs for broken limps, flesh wounds , gangreen, scurvy, and many more diseases. Her specialization is new hearing equipment for sailors with hearing and listening problems due to cannon and gunshots. You will find the hospital by following the signs in Port Hope's market street. ( near landing point) You will find Miss Sea Pearls emergency sign near teleporters or in the hospital. 

Public humiliation of smugglers at Port Celyddon

Recently we have seen crowd at Port Celyddons docks and prison. It seems there is an execution going on , victim is an unknown captured smuggler. More news will follow.