Sailboat racing
I love this game, but wish it would allow for competing for 2nd place, can you update to do this? Also, the NY upwind practice is the only course option where the “competition” will not run into the marks. I play at slowest speed and strategize.
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February 2026
This is a fun app, but I did notice that when a boat on starboard as approaching a boat on port and it’s very close this app makes the boat on starboard duck the boat on port. Every time it does that I go why did the boat on starboard duck boat on port?
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February 2026
This is a fun app, but I did notice that when a boat on starboard as approaching a boat on port and it’s very close this app makes the boat on starboard duck the boat on port. Every time it does that I go why did the boat on starboard duck boat on port?
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Response from developer
I updated to allow for competing for 2nd place. Enjoy!
Good Game
Like it, needs more levels
Как играть
Постоянно вылетает
Worlds greatest game
Pocket sailing
悪くない
操作が簡単で良いゲームだと思いますが、片方にフレ切ってしまうレースが多く、2番手や3番手からの逆転が難しいので、修正があるともっとよくなると思います。
Good game
Enjoy
Solid 👌
This game is incredible and I think all sailors should play this game
Good practice
Great app for learning how to take advantage of wind shifts and tactics!
Bugs
Вылетает во время игры
Overall fun
Every now and then the boat will turn opposite of the command and cost you the race. Other than that its fun
スタートやばい
スタートをもっと何とかして欲しいけどそれ以外はまあまぁあとブローチをランダムにしてもいいかも
Simple!
Hard to view wind angle shifts at such small scale. But good job!
Great, it’s great
Great
Yacht racing
Great
Regattas
Great app. Would be neat if an option for a 5 or 7 race regatta could be scored!
Ok
Should up date the rules sop that they refelct the RRS, add pre start and allow for an after race review.
Review
Not bad, controls let it down, uninstalled due to frustration
Nothing fancy, but good!
Nothing too fancy, but a good little sim!
Rough ‘round the edges.
Overall this is a great game. The way the AI works is almost perfect (follows almost every rule (starboard, leeward, etc. (and in a realistic way))). As well as localised wind direction and wind shifts, which is almost unheard of in sailing simulators. A very simple game capable of much more than you’d think. There are a few issues though, and fixing these would improve the experience of playing the game.
Firstly, the AI has some issues rounding marks. First example of this is that they won’t give you buoy room. I have seen multiple instances where I would be overlapped with another boat entering the three-boat-length circle, and the AI wouldn’t give me room to round the mark, instead just pushing me straight into the mark, ending in me getting protested. There is already a sort of zone surrounding the marks so this shouldn’t be too hard of a rule to implement. Another issue rounding marks is that I would give the AI buoy room, the AI would tack onto a higher lay-line (as expected), well… at least it would try to. The AI would tack onto port as if tacking back to starboard to make the mark, but then would never tack back and would just sail way away from the course, never making any attempt to come back. These are the issues with mark rounding.
Secondly, the random start position mode doesn’t work very well with the mechanics of the game. The only races that you have a good chance at winning in this game are starts that the game puts you at the boat for (the starboard side of the line). If you are anywhere else on the line you are basically done for that race. If there was at least 30 seconds before the actual start of the race for you to simply position on the line it would make starts much easier and give everyone in the race the ability to fight for a good position on the line, which is much better than just pressing play and hoping you get a good spot. This would improve starts by a large margin.
Lastly, the steering system is hard to use. Both steering options in the game aren’t exactly great for steering a boat. The default option would be okay if you were to get rid of the tap to tack option, as small corrections especially when reaching to the finish on a triangle or trapezoid are very hard to do without the boat randomly heading up unexpectedly; so an option to disable this would be helpful. The head down option is great for ducking people on an upwind, but makes pretty much everything else nearly impossible, with the boat just fighting you the whole time while you’re on a downwind or a reach. A modified version of the ‘sail to tap position’ would be ideal.
If these changes were to be made, it would make for a much better experience playing this game. This game is already awesome, and has the potential to be even better. This review is meant to not criticise, but help to improve this wonderful game. With these improvements, the game would be incredible.
Firstly, the AI has some issues rounding marks. First example of this is that they won’t give you buoy room. I have seen multiple instances where I would be overlapped with another boat entering the three-boat-length circle, and the AI wouldn’t give me room to round the mark, instead just pushing me straight into the mark, ending in me getting protested. There is already a sort of zone surrounding the marks so this shouldn’t be too hard of a rule to implement. Another issue rounding marks is that I would give the AI buoy room, the AI would tack onto a higher lay-line (as expected), well… at least it would try to. The AI would tack onto port as if tacking back to starboard to make the mark, but then would never tack back and would just sail way away from the course, never making any attempt to come back. These are the issues with mark rounding.
Secondly, the random start position mode doesn’t work very well with the mechanics of the game. The only races that you have a good chance at winning in this game are starts that the game puts you at the boat for (the starboard side of the line). If you are anywhere else on the line you are basically done for that race. If there was at least 30 seconds before the actual start of the race for you to simply position on the line it would make starts much easier and give everyone in the race the ability to fight for a good position on the line, which is much better than just pressing play and hoping you get a good spot. This would improve starts by a large margin.
Lastly, the steering system is hard to use. Both steering options in the game aren’t exactly great for steering a boat. The default option would be okay if you were to get rid of the tap to tack option, as small corrections especially when reaching to the finish on a triangle or trapezoid are very hard to do without the boat randomly heading up unexpectedly; so an option to disable this would be helpful. The head down option is great for ducking people on an upwind, but makes pretty much everything else nearly impossible, with the boat just fighting you the whole time while you’re on a downwind or a reach. A modified version of the ‘sail to tap position’ would be ideal.
If these changes were to be made, it would make for a much better experience playing this game. This game is already awesome, and has the potential to be even better. This review is meant to not criticise, but help to improve this wonderful game. With these improvements, the game would be incredible.
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Game constantly crashes!!
The game is amazing itself but it just randomly crashes in the middle of gameplay without any way to fix it!!!!
