Sub: Sail Potters on PC in very realistic sim.

mike (alamo@airmail.net)
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 22:29:37 -0500


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Hello Potterers,
I have owned a P15 for years and love sailing her and sailing in general.
To that end I have always enjoyed looking at sailing simulators that can run
on a PC. I've looked at and bought so many hardly believable sail sims that
I thought one would never be written - until now. I found Virtual Sailor and
it runs nicely as a fairly uncrippled demo. PCs need DirectX drivers and
these can be found on the net. Just try this one - it's almost wet.
Virtual Sailing is written with an open architecture to that boths boats
and scenery areas can be added into the program. Enterprising PC geeks can
model and add any particular sailing area. Areas currently available to sail
and explore are the Agean, part of the Caribbean and the even the Great
Lakes. There are pages at the site with basic (very basic) info on modeling
both boats and sceneries for the VS library of options (some work even in
the demo). I looked at it but that stuff is all too deep for me.
Anyway, there are already a variety of different boats and ships to sail.
More are being made all the time. If you don't download the sim, at least
look at the page of boats and ships they have. Alas, no Potters though.
Maybe someone will figure out how to add a P15 or P19 to the mix - then we
could go Pottering anytime, virtually anyway.
If you wish you were sailing right now but aren't, point your browser to
http://www.hangsim.com/vs/ and pick up this puppy, at least look at it. It
is one amazing sim imo. It there anyone else with opinions on this sim? Is
there anyone who would you like to see a Potter sail in it? I hope someone
does.
Happy Sailing,
Mike Garner