What's new in SimSail 5.6
Dec 31, 2021
- Speed of routing increased
- AIS: list of sorted targets displayed in a window
- AIS: CPA graphically displayed when a target is selected
- AIS: colors of targets can be modified
- New scheme of information around the boat
- GSHHS World Coastline updated
- Wifi: UDP mode added
- Alarm added when connection is lost
- New colors for the gradient of wind
New in SimSail 5.5 (Nov 5, 2021)
- Keys "Prior" and "Next" change the wind grib
- MOB: drift position displayed
- AIS improvements
- At low scale, boat is rendered by circles
- After minimisation of the window, parameters of auto refresh are restored
- Tide dialog box: date improvements
- Fixed csv file from conversion of a NMEA file
- Results dialog box: currents lag is in minutes
- Fixed: a polar edited is correctly saved
- Fixed: several issues with NMEA file
New in SimSail 5.3 (Nov 8, 2020)
New in SimSail 5.2 (Sep 29, 2020)
- Atlas of currents
- Water heights of French ports (SHOM 2019)
- Bugs fixed
New in SimSail 3.9 (Nov 4, 2017)
- Tide graph
- Improvements on NMEA phrases
New in SimSail 3.8 (Oct 16, 2017)
- Meteogram available (wind and pressure)
- Visualisation of wind stability in a routing
- Number of BSB charts is no more limited
- Position of the boat is saved at the end of the session
- Improvements on High Definition Screen (High DPI)
- When SimSail is minimized, processor is no more used
- Better visibility of tooltips
- Degradation of VMG Downwind
- Crash report
- Better management of routings
- Numerous bugs fixed
New in SimSail 3.5 (Mar 22, 2017)
- Display of several routings simultaneously
- Compatible high dpi screen
- Fixed : delete old gribs
- MapQuest no more available
- Improved : calculation of VMGs
- Fixed : suppress stored routings
- Fixed : management of panels
- New tool Mesure of distance
- Fixed several minor bugs
- Popup menu (right click) cannot be selected on a panel
- Big gribs are better managed with less use of memory
- Fix Dialog box Routings
- ProgressBar improved
New in SimSail 2.9.1 (Sep 19, 2015)
- Reading of grib2 (free AROME grib2 provided by Meteo France - See the manual how to get them the websites)
- In unique wind, start date is free
- Fix several bugs
- Direction and distance from the boat to the cursor
- Key 'F4' frames the wind grib
- Number of points of current function of zoom
- Updates on Routing Panel
- Key 'C' switches the provider of currents
- Limited display when moving the map
- Improvements of time bar
New in SimSail 2.9 (Jun 23, 2015)
- Unique wind can vary
- Barometric pressure added
- Improvements on stability
New in SimSail 2.8.1 (Jun 10, 2015)
- Scan of wind lag added
- Unique wind can vary between several dates
- Routing possible on lake
- Frame of the route adjusted (Key F3)
- Improvements on calculations
- Improvements on visualisation
- Improvements on serial communication
- Barriers can be locked
- Numerous bugs fixed
New in SimSail 2.8 (Jun 10, 2015)
- Local time
- Major update of the interface
- New toolbar for visualisation of the routing
- New status bar with the percentage of polar reached (GPS)
- Save and open routings
- Enhancements on serial communications
- Full NMEA parsing
- NMEA phrases are displayed in the Com tab of the Options dialog box
- Names of the waypoints can be permanently displayed
- Routing Parameters can be saved and loaded
- Colors are not limited to several values
- Scan of polars are colored
- Colors of currents updated
- Gpx files have been standardized
- Fix minor bugs
New in SimSail 2.7 (Apr 10, 2015)
- Integration of gribs of currents
- Week-ends and gribs of currents are displayed on the time bar
- Type of currents in the window title
- Progress bar during the routing calculations
- Symbol of boat upgraded
- Less effectiveness of the polar during the night
- Fix first opening
- Boat better visible
- Fix name of the grib displayed in the routing parameters dialog box
- Fix overlap of text displayed under the mouse
- Fix routing export (gpx format)
New in SimSail 2.6 (Mar 24, 2015)
- Can read the tidal streams from the SHOM (France)
- Ctrl key over the tool time to have steps of 10 min
- Basic logger
- VMG optimised
- Can define precisely the points of the route
- Routing scan with 3 polars and theirs ratings
- Dutch translation
New in SimSail 2.5 (Jan 15, 2015)
- CHANGES:
- Internationalisation
- Full orthodromy (route, ellipses and routing)
- Infinite map in longitude including normal work around the dateline
- Multirouting by scanning different parameters (polar, wind or time)
- At the end of a routing, display a summary in a window
- Display the reason why the routing did not reached the final waypoint
- Waypoints should be at sea to do a routing and incorrect waypoints are marked
- Routing can be done out of the ellipse
- Actual currents are displayed when routing progresses
- Time lag added for the grib
- Grib is correctly aligned on the mercator map, especially on high latitudes
- Option added for the grib colors (one color per knot of wind)
- Option added to not route outside the grib
- Main folder of SimSail may be moved
- At the opening, load all the previous waypoints
- Option added for the factor of zoom of the map
- Pending local language of the operating system, gpx files read numbers that have a comma or a dot
- Windows of Routing parameters and Options keep their locations on the screen
- Tool time improved
- Popup menus for the route and the barriers have been uniformed and improved
- Option added to display or not the lakes
- Management of the barriers and the route refined
- Menu 'Add waypoints' is now combined with the menu 'Open waypoints'
- Framing of the grib and the route improved
- GPS stability improved
- Routing from the boat
- Routing can be stopped better with Escape key
- Auto routing improved
- Management of the Traffic Separation Schemes improved
New in SimSail 2.3 (Oct 30, 2014)
- The isochrones routing is 10% faster.
- The start date and time cannot be selected out of the range of the grib.
- The non-homogenous gribs can be loaded. It concerned Saildocs which can provide a grib that covers two weeks, with a grid for the first week different from the second week.
- Several icons of the right panel have been changed.
- For the dual routing, sailing and engine, the engine is now on when the boat speed is below a threshold.
- Stability improvements.
New in SimSail 2.2 (Oct 22, 2014)
- Correction of bugs.
- 3 times faster.
- Barriers added.
New in SimSail 1.0 (Feb 10, 2014)
- Direct2D implemented and choice between Direct2D and GDI+ can be made in dialog box Options.
- Additional options in the dialog box Options with new tabs.
- Management of the shorelines 'Gshhs' has been totally rebuilt. The full world is available.
- SimSail can read the original data that can be downloaded at http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/files/download
- See the file gshhg-gmt-nc4-version.tar.gz
- Automatic quality of the shorelines has been implemented and is visible in the status bar.
- Routing improved with Counter currents fixed.
- Display of the winds has been improved. There are more arrows and the colored surface is more readable.
- Several improvements on the toolbar to limit at maximum the refresh of the window.
- A bar below the toolbar has been added to better navigate in the grib or in the routing.
- Display of tides has been added for the main reference ports.
- F1 key displays the help. Several shortcuts have been added.
- Speed of rendering has been increased.
- Stability improved.
New in SimSail 0.9 (Jan 14, 2014)
- New dialog box with tabs for the options of SimSail.
- Toolbar can be hidden when the mouse is not over. This option is saved.
- Tooltips have been added for the buttons of the toolbar. They can be shown or hidden and this option is saved.
- The name of the waypoints are displayed close to them, under the mouse position.
- Several Colors can be changed in the options dialog box and saved.
- Folders of gribs, waypoints, routes and polars can be changed and saved. The first time SimSail opens, the folders are the default ones. When they are changed with the Options dialog box, they are saved and restored.
- New dialog box with tabs for the routing parameters.
- The polar can be displayed. Access by the Routing dialog box, Polar Tab. Escape key comes back to the normal display.
- The details of each point of the routing is displayed on the left. Keys, Page Up and Page down, in conjunction with Control (10 time steps) or Shift (60 timesteps) key allows to navigate along the routing.
- The route is displayed with arrows to see the departure and the arrival.
- The speed of the boat is calculated in interpolating the polar with a bicubic spline.
- The boat cannot have a course inferior the VMG upwind or superior to the VMG downwind.
- A unique wind available for the world can be set.
- Gribs from zyGrib, UGrib and Meteo Consult can be read.
- The display of the winds in gradient colors has been improved.
- The time to calculate a routing has been divided by two.
- SimSail doesn't need anymore msvcr100D.dll.
- SimSail is now under the licence GPL3.
- When the routing is not in the time or spatial range of the grib, SimSail utilises the engine.
- The routing can be exported as a route and can be open in a navigation software like OpenCPN or MaxSea.
- Several optimisations in the rendering.
- Routing can be done without the currents.
- Legend of the routing has been added and display of the routing can be selected from the legend on the upper right.
- Memory leaks almost solved.
- The tides can be displayed for the main ports.
New in SimSail 0.8 (Jan 14, 2014)
- First release candidate to have been tested by another tester at sea.
- New toolbar with vertical menu of buttons.
- Polar can be changed.
- New routing procedure, in particular when a waypoint of the route is reached.
New in SimSail 0.7 (Jan 14, 2014)
- Compressed gribs with bz2 extension can be read.
New in SimSail 0.6 (Jan 14, 2014)
- Enhancement of routing.
- Lambert projection.
New in SimSail 0.5 (Jan 14, 2014)
- First realease candidate tested at sea during summer 2013.
- Basic routing.
New in SimSail 0.4 (Jan 14, 2014)
New in SimSail 0.3 (Jan 14, 2014)
New in SimSail 0.2 (Jan 14, 2014)
New in SimSail 0.1 (Jan 14, 2014)
- Map moving on Win32 C++ GDI+.