![]() There are keyboard shortcuts for controlling direction, but unfortunately, they don’t work with Smart Tiller. This makes it much easier to compete with the other racers. Once you’ve used Sailing Master a while, you can control sail trim and heeling angle manually.Ī new feature in 1.1 - Smart Tiller - adjusts your course to be 45 degrees off the wind (optimum sailing angle) when you point up or down. Sailing Master’s Autotrim and Autoheel options handle the sails and the angle of the boat for you, so you can concentrate on strategy and tactics. The wind shifts in intensity and direction across the course, with wind-shifts sometimes presaged by dark and light areas on the water upwind. The interface is straightforward (see “Racing to Win”). Sailing Master handles the basic racing rules, forcing you to do a 720-degree turn, for instance, if you fail to respond to a leeward boat coming up behind you. You can’t sail against other humans except by using a Time Trials mode, which ranks subsequent sailors on the same course. You can sail against as many as three boats (with various levels of skill), on Olympic and windward/leeward courses. This program is a fun simulation of sailboat racing, and a good way to learn the wind-shifts at the same time. ![]() If you're an obsessed sailboat-racing skipper as I am, or if an afternoon’s sail sounds like a pleasant break from your afternoon’s work, you should check out Sailing Master 1.1. ![]()
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