Sail Games and Marine Softwares

"virtual Spectator is an exciting new live Internet sports channel established to deliver animated action from the Louis Vuitton Cup - the Challenger Races for the America's Cup - LIVE from your computer desktop. The technology gives Virtual Spectators access to real-time, 3D animated race action from data sent directly from the racing boats." ...

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Quality Simulations was founded by Ilan Papini, its goal is to create and promote realistic simulations for aviation, sailing and space.

Untill now, Ilan Papini has written the following simulations:

Hang Sim - realistic hang gliding flight simulator ( released in 1998 ) . Virtual Sailor - immersive and realistic sailing simulation ( released 1999 ). Micro-Flight - realistic light aviation flight simulator for ultralights, gliders and planes ( released 2000).

All of the three simulations feature open data formats for creating scenery, boats and planes, and this allowed many users to create scenery and vehicles for them.

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Online Boating Sailing Course, Lessons & Schools
The online boating courses on this website are designed to present basic and advanced information about sailboats, powerboats and boat handling in US waters.  These courses are not designed to substitute for a US SAILING certification course or on-the-water training by a sailing, windsurfing or powerboat instructor, but may be used as one of the tools in preparation for taking a certified course or in continuing your boating education.

US SAILING is a non-profit organization, founded in 1897 and mandated by congress, the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act body of the sport of sailing. US SAILING is responsible for the selection of the Olympic Team, the Paralympic Games Team, the Pan American Games and World University Games Teams, and the annually designated US SAILING Team, US Disabled Team, and US Youth Team. US SAILING has the highest standards in small, keelboat and off-shore sailing courses and lessons. It only makes sense to Join and learn to sail with US SAILING.
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SailX

"SailX is a free sailing environment where users race regattas virtually.

This environment was created several years ago by sailors for sailors. Mainly intended as a training tool for sailing rules and regatta tactics it soon developed into a full on-line environment and a game.

Sailing is free but if you register you will be able to name your boat, access more fields and use the protest system.

You can also buy a subscription, that will get you a ranking world-wide and access to exclusive events and more racing modes

To know more about SailX you can browse the Wiki page

Although starting immediately to sail with us is possible we recommend you to spend a couple of minutes learning the basic keystrokes, the flash tutorial will help you...."

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Boat Design

Discussion forums:
boat design, boat building, powerboats, sailboats, multihulls, design software, education, services and employment...

Boat Design Gallery
A gallery of professional and student design work, projects in process, power and sail. Please post your boat design & boat building images for everyone to see

Boat Design Directory
A marine design directory and search engine. Boat plans, designers, boatbuilders, materials, powerboats, catamarans, propulsion, sailboats, multihulls, shipyards, software, books, & resources.

Boat Design Net
A site connecting boat builders and designers, showcasing innovations in design and construction and providing access to articles, resources, software, and inspirational sites."

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At MaxSea, we strive to be the leader in the invention and development of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including marine navigation and electronic charts. We translate these advanced technologies into value for our customers through our professional distributors and dealers worldwide.

The MaxSea-NavNet software brings NavNet radar, Fish finding and chart control directly to your PC. The critical combination of the navigation network and software is the ultimate solution to serious boaters... Learn more

What people say about skippersoftware!

"...provides hours of fun and help to brush up on or maintain your skills."
Sailing Today

"... clear graphics and minimal text make this an easy way to learn."
Practical Boat Owner

"Great job in many ways! You should be proud. Good graphics. Good voice over. Loved the quiz on lights and shapes. well done and challenging. good for advanced sailors. "
Richard Jespen - OCSC Sailing, San Francisco USA

"It is the best learning software I have seen and the most user friendly."
Captain Ronald J.F. MacInnes - Gael Sail Offshore Sailing School, Scottland

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Regency Yacht Vacations

"Delcam’s CADCAM Solutions are used by a huge variety of companies within the marine sector for the design, manufacture and inspection of the tools and patterns. These tools are used to produce the hulls and decks of composite sailing yachts and motorboats from small inshore motorboats to large 150ft luxury motor yachts.

Boat yards across Europe and America use Delcam’s Power Solution to support a range of unique and innovative manufacturing processes. The processes can simply involved the design of boats and yachts, the design of patterns, the production of 3 and 5 axis toolpaths both for machining plugs and trimming out feature such as port holes and deck fixtures into the finished hulls

Delcam’s adaptive machining solution enable these processes to be tailored to meet the variation that regularly occurs within the manufacture of large flexible structures.

Other applications within the marine sector include the design and manufacture of props and other propulsion systems, whether these are machined, molded or cast. "

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Coastal Explorer™

Show Full Size Image Coastal Explorer™ is a sophisticated and full-featured, yet very easy to use navigation software package designed specifically for the pleasure boater.

With support for more charts and chart formats than any other recreational navigation system, route planning features with multi-level undo capability, integrated gazetteer and guide books, virtual instrument display, and obstacle alerts, Coastal Explorer will help you make your next cruise safer and more enjoyable.

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