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Coastal Cruising Simulator

New Release 2009 Edition includes:
  • High performance sailing monohull with bowsprit and asymmetrical spinnaker. You can vary certain design features on this boat.
  • High performance sailing catamaran with bowsprit and asymmetrical spinnaker. You can vary certain design features on this boat.
  • Helpful Run and Jibe commands.
  • Numerous graphics improvements.
2009 and 2008 Editions include:
  • Southern Newfoundland cruising adventure.
  • Motorsailer - has less sail area, more displacement and stability, and stronger engine than sailing monohulls.
  • All jibs have roller furling and reefing, useful when docking under sail.
  • Docking Practice Simulation.
  • Key commands to rapidly shift between forward and reverse engine gears.
  • Key commands added for quick Options Menu and Submenu selections.

    PURPOSE: Practice essential cruising skills as you enjoy one to five day cruises or passages. Excellent 3D 360° “Roving Eye” graphics give you the feeling you are really sailing or motoring through the selected cruising grounds! Choose an idyllic cruise or build and test your skills handling storms, frontal passage, fog, equipment failures, dead reckoning, eyeball navigation, or collision avoidance! Navigate and pilot your boat using modern equipment. Practice docking under sail or power in cross currents or high winds. Plot fixes and plan your cruise using electronic charts.

    CRUISING AREAS: Choose from Imaginary Cruising Areas, Passages, or Real Cruising Areas. Forecast generated wind and weather conditions, currents, depths, and typical commercial traffic are realistic for each area.

    Passages include Florida to Bahamas, Bahamas to Florida, Maine to Nova Scotia, and Nova Scotia to Maine. You’ll experience a short but challenging offshore passage where you’ll likely travel at least one night and must negotiate a successful landfall. You then can enjoy shorter cruises along the coast and islands.

    Real Cruising Areas include Maine, Southern New England, Chesapeake Bay, the Exuma Cays in the Bahamas, and Southern Newfoundland cruising adventure! These are actual cruising areas that provide varied navigating challenges and are much larger with more anchorages and detail than other cruising areas. They are an excellent way o gain experience before you actually go there in your boat!

    Imaginary Cruising Areas include Coastal, Inland Waterways, River, or Islands scenarios. Shorelines, islands, and charts differ every cruise.
  • In Northern Latitudes, you’ll encounter cold water, lots of fog, rocks, and commercial traffic. This is an excellent place to practice fog navigation and radar collision avoidance.
  • In Southern Latitudes, there’s less fog but more shallow water and sudden thunderstorms. You’ll need to find a protected anchorage and be prepared to shorten sail when you hear distant thunder or see storm clouds approaching. With shoals about, it’s important to keep careful track of your position and course.
  • In Bahamian Fantasy Islands, there are uncharted shoals and coral heads and few navigation aids. Bottom reading in proper light is required. Plan to get into your anchorage while the sun is still high; otherwise, you may spend a bouncy night on the Banks.

YOUR CRUISING BOAT:  Choose from a sailing monohull; sailing catamaran; high performance sailing monohull or catamaran, both with bowsprits and asymmetrical spinnakers; motorsailer; single screw or twin-screw trawler yacht. For all sailing monohulls and catamarans, select length, displacement, sail area, rig, tiller, or wheel.

Move the tiller or wheel by moving the mouse, or click steer. Sail or motor. When beating to windward, steer by watching the telltales or give that job to your computer crew. Trim your mainsail using Mainsheet Control Bar, mouse wheel, or key commands.  Furl, unfurl or partially furl your jib. Reef, wing, change jib size, or set a symmetrical or asymmetrical spinnaker. Engines have forward, reverse, neutral, several speeds, and easy controls.

Set an anchor (rode or all chain) and add a kellet or set a second anchor using dinghy, sail, or auxiliary. Adjust scope in crowded anchorages so you don’t swing into other boats. Enter your slip, dock, moor, or pilot a narrow waterway under power or sail. Cruise at night if you like – You’ll see navigation lights on ships and lighted aids; but watch your chart!

Boat behavior is realistic in response to your steering and sail trim as well as to wind and waves. Behavior is based on performance calculation models that determine leeway, speed through the water, heel angle, etc. So, you may find yourself in irons, broaching, or unexpectedly backing to port under power!

REALISTIC 3D 360° “ROVING EYE” GRAPHICS: In the 3D Sailing and Cockpit Views you can look as far as the horizon in any direction; and look at your boat and sails from any angle. Watch for approaching ships and weather phenomenon, follow front and back ranges, check the sun angle, read the bottom in clear Bahamian waters. Look around to see navigation aids, landmarks, islands, river mouths, etc. Take handbearing compass angles on these features in the Sailing View to plot a fix on your chart. Or, follow a ship’s progress with the handbearing compass and adjust your course to stay out of its way! Zoom in with your binoculars if necessary. Graphics improvements include much better shoreline detail and nighttime graphics with or without moonlight. {short description of image}

NAVIGATION: Check the weather forecast before you start – it differs every cruise and gives realistic clues to wind patterns and impending weather conditions. Plan your itinerary and anchorages using the full screen online chart. The chart is zoomable and slidable so you can look at large area or detailed charts. Full screen chart can be centered at your boat. You also can watch your boat’s progress in the Sailing View chart plotting GPS window. All magnetic bearings in the simulator include appropriate variation for the charted area. Display present current vectors and speed on your chart or page ahead in hourly increments.

Plot fixes on your chart using handbearing or GPS. Measure distance and angles on your chart using computer dividers and protractor. Set waypoints in your GPS and see them on the chart. Then steer to the targeted waypoint in the Sailing View. Or, use your handbearing compass and chart to establish danger bearings that keep your safely off underwater hazards. Practice dead reckoning and depth sounder navigation for emergencies or fun!

If you use radar on your boat, vary the range to track distant and close in targets. Use the adjustable electronic bearing line and variable range marker to measure direction and distance. Use this information to plot fixes on your chart and track ships and obstructions in the fog or at night.





EASY TO USE COMPUTER INTERFACE: Very intuitive screen layout. Easy to use control buttons and single key commands. Buttons are context sensitive and color-coded to give quick status updates on your boat controls. Help Menu and online instruction manual get you started quickly and cover all features of the simulator.

DOCKING PRACTICE SIMULATION:  This is an alternate use of the simulator, not part of a cruise, which provides practice landing alongside a face dock or into a slip under many different wind and current conditions, which you select. You can land under sail or power, bow or stern in first.  You have full use of all sails and engine just as you would in the real cruising world. And, you can practice as long as you want without fear of destroying your topsides!

FEATURES THAT IMPROVE YOUR CRUISING & ENJOYMENT:

• Continued improvements in simulator speed and graphics detail to take advantage of newer, faster, wide screen computers, while still being fully useable on older Pentium and OS X computers. Wide screen capabilities.
• Sound Effects include foghorns, ship horns and whistles, your engine, thunder, luffing sails, and rushing water when you sail fast. Or, you can shut off all sounds.
• 10 levels of difficulty keep you on the learning curve and having fun! Your days and nights are idyllic at lower levels. At higher levels, unexpected problems can occur any time. Your engine, GPS, radar, or depth alarm may fail. They will be fixed if your successfully land at a slip or dock. Thunderstorms or fog may cut visibility drastically. High winds and rough water may cause severe leeway or cause your anchor to drag. If you don’t keep a good lookout or radar watch, you may be run down by a ship or tug and tow!
• Key commands to quickly make changes to Options Menu and Submenus.
• Select a problem: Regardless of difficulty level, you can select to have no engine, no GPS, no radar, no depth alarm, high winds, or fog so you can practice certain skills. Or, you can select NOT to have these problems! Any instrument or engine failures are repaired if you successfully land at a dock or float.
• 3 Hour Time Jumps when anchored, moored or docked can be turned on or off.
• Your skill score: When you complete a cruise, points are awarded depending on difficulty level, problems selected, length of cruise, emergencies handled successfully, and roughness of your anchorages. If you get stuck aground or collide with a ship or fishing vessel, score is 0. The Docking Practice Simulator has its own scoring criteria.
• Online “Old Salt” (Coach) is aware of your situation. If asked, he offers advice on improving your sailing and cruising skills at any time during a cruise.
• Cruising Suggestions e-book gives extensive advice on anchoring, maneuvering under sail and power, dead reckoning and other piloting techniques, weather, navigating (visual and electronic), and other cruising skills.
• Reference manual e-book gets you cruising quickly.
• Ease of Use Features: Optional, easy mouse click steering or single key command steering. Quick-Click Mainsheet Control Bar. If your Windows mouse has a wheel, use it to trim your mainsheet. Optional tack and closehauled, run and jibe commands. Easy mouse controls, context sensitive buttons and many hot keys! Help screens. Option to give some jobs to the computer.

Polish your cruising skills before you leave the dock with Coastal Cruising Simulator!

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