Every release of the SkipperCheck COLREG and ship-handling simulator, newest first: what changed, in plain words, and a link that opens it straight in the simulator.
An hour before the gun the race committee lays the daily Riga – Skulte – Riga course to the race's own wind: a start line square to it, a windward mark a mile upwind, then Skulte, and a finish line square to the leg home. The lobby shows the course as it is laid.
🛟 MOB (Shift+O) marks the position on the chart and the radar, puts the dan buoy over and starts the MOB clock. DRILLS runs the recovery methods that fit each boat (the figure-eight, quick-stop and deep beam reach under sail, a direct return under power, the Williamson, Anderson and Scharnow turns for ships) by day or night, scored out of 100.
A reload, a crash or a dropped phone no longer ends your race: open the simulator again within 10 minutes and REJOIN THE RACE puts your boat back where the server last had her. % POLAR on the race panel compares your speed with ELEONORA's speed table, measured on the simulator's own physics.
⛵ REGATTA (with a free account) races real skippers in identical ELEONORAs: a daily Riga – Skulte – Riga race with the gun at 19:00 Riga time at ×10, time trials against ghosts whenever you like, and races of your own with an invite link. The 3-D view draws the committee boat and its flags, the marks, the line and the other boats' sail numbers.
The new Online Sailing Simulator page describes sailing in Free Mode, and its Start sailing link puts you aboard ELEONORA off the Daugava mouth with the sails up and AUTO TRIM on.
Three more own vessels: an AC75 foiler (America's Cup class) that lifts clear of the water from about 16–18 knots of boat speed, a 40 m explorer motor yacht with hybrid and silent electric modes, and Libava, the replica of a 17th-century Dutch yacht from Liepāja.
Four more own vessels: LATEKO, a Beneteau 50 with twin wheels and a bow thruster, the Latvian-built sailing catamaran Namejs with two engines, and two dinghies, an ILCA 7 and an Optimist, that you hike out and right after a capsize.
Free Mode is free for everyone, with no account. The shared sea and regattas need a free SkipperCheck account. The detailed Baltic and Croatian charts and every docking lesson come with Marine Simulator Training or the Skipper Refresher Course. The simulator is a training tool, not a navigation product.