Open Virtual 470 World Event with Sail Simulator 5 Saturday, 17 July 2010 12:30



This week the 470 world cup competition takes place in Scheveningen. Stentec will be demonstrating it's new beta version of Sail Simulator 5 in the Brunotti Beach House this weekend.

Next week's wednesday and thursday (July 21 and 22) the world cup organisation, InPortRace and Stentec organised the Open Virtual 470 Worlds. This competition can be entered by anyone.

More information can be found on www.470worlds2010.com/game.asp. You can submit through the Entry Form.
 

Beta Sail Simulator 5 and Boatset 1 released Friday, 16 July 2010 15:24

The beta-version of Sail Simulator 5 and new Boatset 1 Add-on are now available on the Stentec server in Heeg. The menu of www.sailsimulator.com already shows the racing statistics of the beta.

If you did order your Boatset 1 online, log-in to your Stentec account, go to Download overview and download both the beta and Boatset1. Today an e-mail with license code and download links was send to all who signed-in for Boatset 1. 

After installing the beat you need to install Boatset 1. Then you have 11 new boats an Fluessen/Heergermeer as bonus scenery. The boatset contains: 29er, 420, Flash, Hobie 16, Hobie Tiger, Laser Radial, Nacra Infusion, Polyvalk, Optimist, Splash and a RIB to follow the races. 

Beware !
- The beta can only be installed with an official license of Sail Simulator 5 or 2010.
- When installing the beta, the previous version will be removed and you can not participate to the official races, unless you re-install the previous version.

Your score from beta racing will probably not taken into account when we replace the database at official release after the testing period. We are very interested in your comment and suggestions. Mail to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Signing-In is possible untill the official release planned for the 2th half of August. Untill that time Boatset 1 can be purchased with 5 Euro discount in our Online Shop.

 
 

Release Boat Set 1 further delayed until at least the end of June. Tuesday, 01 June 2010 00:00

The development of the 11 new boats in Sail Simulator 5 will take more time than we expected. This has mostly to do with the specific details of the boats.

At the end of April we made our first internal test version with the majority of the boats. This was the first time we sailed a Hobie 16 catamaran in front of the coast of Scheveningen. See the screenshot to the right. Below that you see the bigger Hobie Tiger F18 on the new Heegermeer scenery. Both boats yet without trapeze wires, but at full speed.

The modeling and perfecting of the boats and adding the multiplayer functionality for them will take us at least another couple of weeks.

Read more about this fantastic upgrade in a previous news release.

You may pre-register Boat Set 1 in our Online Shop.
Sailing area Heegermeer/Fluessen will be added as a bonus.

 
 

Sail Simulator 5 server moves monday march 15th. Friday, 12 March 2010 15:13

Next monday (march 15th) the Sail Simulator 5 server will be moved to a new server. We are very excited about the new server because it has a lot more bandwidth than the old one and the machine is al lot faster. With this server more users can sail their on-line races without connection problems or network lag. During the move the server will be down for a short time. It is planned at 07:30h (UTC). After that, It may take some time to get connected again because the DNS caches all over the internet have to be updated. This can take a maximum of 24 hours.