For Windows 98 or better, including XP or Vista, and Macintosh OS X Power PC and Intel-based Macintosh.

You have a choice of Five different simulators:

• Advanced Racing Simulator - New 2008 Edition! Now with option to create your own Personal Race Area as well as twelve, popular real-world racing areas! Experience high-level racing from the skipper’s perspective in an intelligent 20-boat fleet. 25 different boat types, including New 25 foot Sport Boats, 35 foot Sport Boats, Ideal 18s, and Offshore Catamarans. Very realistic boat response to your sail trim, weight placement, steering, and boatspeed adjustments. You’ll need to sail your boat well and be quick with tactics and strategy! Interactive, animated tutorials teach Racing Rules, racing tactics and strategy.

• Sailing Tactics Simulator - New 2008 Edition! Now with option to create your own Personal Race Area as well as eighteen, popular real-world racing areas! One or two players can match wits against each other, the computer’s expert match racer, or a fleet of 30 aggressively sailed boats. 25 different boat types, including New 25 foot Sport Boats, 35 foot Sport Boats, Ideal 18s, and Offshore Catamarans. Easy to use simulator interface lets you concentrate on the tactics and strategy of racing! Interactive, animated tutorials teach the latest Racing Rules, racing tactics and strategy.

• Distance Race Sailing Challenge - New 2007 Edition! Compete in 11 different distance races, including Chicago to Mackinac, Vineyard, Chesapeake Governors Cup, Ft. Lauderdale to Key West . Emphasis on strategy and boatspeed. Sail in a 20 boat fleet of offshore racers, sprit boats, racer-cruisers, or catamarans , plus New high performance ultra light sportboats.

• Sailing Dynamics Instructor - New 2007 Edition! Novice and intermediate sailors can learn the fundamentals of sailing, rules of the road, and fine points of sail trim. As you build skills, progress to racing basics. Practice sail shaping and boat handling techniques. Brush up on the latest Racing Rules. Includes expanded interactive sailing skill and racing tutorials, sailing simulator, and racing simulator. Sail Optimists, catamarans, skiffs, dinghies, keelboats, cruising sloops, and offshore racers, plus New high performance offshore catamarans and ultra light sport boats.

• Coastal Cruising Simulator - New 2008 Edition! Practice essential cruising skills as you enjoy up to a five-day cruise or passage in a wide variety of cruising grounds. Captain monohulls, multihulls, motorsailers, or trawler yachts. Navigate using modern equipment or dead reckoning. Docking Practice Simulation included. Choose an idyllic passage or white knuckled mayhem!

All simulators are designed so you’ll be under way quickly. Use keyboard or mouse to operate your boat. No special devices are needed. All Macintosh purchasers get both Native OS X and Classic versions on CD-Rom.

• Firebrand Passages – The Posey’s cruising adventures, problems and solutions.
• Cruising Suggestions – Practical advice to improve your coastal cruising skills.
• Racing Suggestions – Expert advice to improve your sailboat racing skills.
• Rules of the Road tutorial – Sailboat right of way training.
• Racing Rules of Sailing tutorial – Right of way training for sailboats while racing.