Virtual Sailor is a state of the art sailing simulator which accurately models the entire marine environmnet from a sailboat's perspective, including: wind and wave dynamics, sailboat dynamics, ocean and sailing sounds, and dynamic weather conditions.Virtual Sailor uses many special effects for simulating day or night marine environment and has a huge land and sea environment based on real topographic data. Simulates yacht racing including wind shadow effects. Built using the latest technology in 3D graphic acceleration and sound mixing making the program an advanced, yet easy to use, virtual environment, allowing 360 degrees look around. Although the simulation is extremely accurate, the program does not require the user to understand marine terminology. Full expansion capability using open formats for all files, making third party sceneries add-ons as easy as possible.