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how does it work?
Select your sailing area, the weather conditions and sail- or motorboat. Buy your navigation instruments in the store, pick up your crew from the yachtclub bar and set sail.
Hanging trapeze in open boats, capsizing, diving in a wave with your Tornado catamaran, swimming crew, almost everything is possible.
For optimal sailing pleasure and control, you can connect the special control unit with rudder on your game port (on the Sound card).
You have to calibrate this once, so that the position of the rudder is similar with that on your screen.
It is also possible to generate your own familiar sailing area with jetties, isles and buoys.
Ofcourse you can set the wind, and stream conditions in your sailing area.
To make sailing easier you can let the computer handle the sails.
The Technology
In contrary to other sailing simulators, a pre-defined polar diagram will not be used to prescribe the speed of the ship on a certain course. Instead all aerodynamical forces will be calculated completely. For example: on the mainsail, the jib, the keel, the rudder and the hull. The aerodynamic interaction between mainsail, jib and spi will also be taken into account. The boats in Sail Simulator sail almost in a lifelike way. Therefore, every boat has its own special sailing characteristics. Just as in real sailing in open boats and catamarans the position of the crew is of big influence on speed and stability. Sail Simulator uses the same simulation engine as used in Sail Simulator 2.1.
The wave size and period depend, just as in real live, on the wind speed, the depth of the water and the upwind distance to the shore.
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Sail Simulator 3 is not available anymore in our online shop. If you are interested in buying a copy, please contact us at stentec@stentec.com.
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