Sail Simulator 5 and Boat Set 1 Bundle

Sail Simulator 5 :

Experience the excitement of realistic virtual sailing. Trim your boat, control the sheets and steer the selected sailing boat at maximum speed through the waves. Sail Simulator 5 has been optimized for organizing regatta sailing and match racing on your local network or using the Internet. A stable mulitiplayer session is easy to setup.
Sail Simulator 5 skippers have full control over the boat even in strong wind and high seas. Trim the sails and tighten the sheets to sail the boat at maximum speed.
Organize multiplayer races with other users through the Internet or local network (LAN). Outside Cabrera and Treasure Island we defined two racing tracks. Wind and waves can be set before the race.

Highlights :

* Intuitive and flexible control interface
* Stable multiplayer server for long distance races
* Realistic aerodynamics with wind shear and twist
* Realistic wavefield and seaworthiness.

Boat Set 1 Add-On for Sail Simulator 5 :

he Nacra infusion and Tiger F18 Cats are made for speed. They both outperform the older Hobie 16, although this type once owned the world speed sailing record.Sailing faster than the wind is easy, but we do not know yet if passing the wind sailing downwind with genaker is possible (-VMG > Vwind_abs) at certain conditions. The Nacra can has almost the same speed as the VOR below BFT 5. Due to increased hull drag the Hobie 16 is diving earlier than in the beta version. So take care and select a heavier helmsmen.

The 470 is the most popular boat until now.The sailing behaviour has been improved considerably in our opinion, mainly because of better physics that resulted in more power in the sails.

The Bavaria 36 with spinaker now is not just a normal Bavaria. In Sail Simulator 5.2 the speed at BFT5 under spinaker can be considerable. For example the 29er is faster but more difficult to sail.

The RIB is now fast and stable on course even on the autopilot. It has a top speed above 30 knots. This allows beautiful camera work following almost all boats with exception of the VOR above BFT5.

And then the Optimist. Whow. It's a racing maschine pure sang in high wind speeds. Easy to handle even by kids. Recommended for online sessions especially with a lot of short waves. Have fun.

The Splash and Flash are both easy to sail, like the new Laser Radial.

The PolyValk is the most popular sailing boat on the Dutch lakes. Also very popular for racing with a large fleet. It hass not the speed of the wooden racing Valk and also lacks the spi, but it is more comfortable above BFT 4.
Wind and Wave setting for undeep Fluessen scenery

The Fluessen/Heegermeer lake area in Friesland forms a perfect place for sheltered undeep water racing. The most frequent wind is BFT 3-4 SW giving relatively high waves in the NE corder near Heeg. About the depth. If you select the VOR you are suck in the mudd as soon as you enter the scenery. Using the wind depended wave setting the udeep water is preventing the waves to develop to greater height at windspeeds above BFT4. At high wind speeds the waves are unrealisticly long and relatively flat. To solve this problem open the Advanced setting and decrease the development until the Period is around 3.5 seconds. If you want to sail in braking waves simply increase the steepness from a standard value of 0,02 carefully up to 0,06 or higher. Do this for both waves but don't overdo to keep it sailable.