Sail a historical full-rigged ship in real global weather
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Sail a historical full-rigged ship in real global weather is a company in show hn launch.
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This is a simulator of a frigate from about 1800. It has realistic physics, tuned to match historical performance. The UI is based around commands given in period naval language. Rather than use the current weather, it has a full year's weather data (for 1980 - taken from https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis2.html). This allows the weather to change realistically under time acceleration.To learn the basics of handling a square-rigged ship, start the "Harbour" scenario, click on the instructions button at the bottom left, and follow the instructions to try to get out of Portsmouth harbour.To go for a long sail, start the "The World" scenario. Open the map, control+click anyw
As a business in show hn launch, Sail a historical full-rigged ship in real global weather is listed here with the public details available about it.
Its current recorded stage is Show HN launch.
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| Stage | Show HN launch |
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