Downloadable Software

• 21st Century: Sailing Simulator - now includes multi-player version

• AeroHydro: Marine design and 3-d modeling software including MultiSurf, for Windows (commercial)

• AeroLogic: Loftsman airplane and hull lofting software, (commercial + plus free demo)

• AutoCAD free demos available

• BaseLine Technology - BaseLine II hull fairing system, for MS-DOS (free demo)

• Beken, Danny tidal navigation program for the English Channel

• Blue Peter Marine Systems: Hullform hull design software, including public domain obsolete version

• Calculators of many types on-line

• Carlson, Gregg: SailForm Freeware 3-D sail visualization and design program

• Carlson, Gregg: Hull Designer for Windows Chined hull design program, up to six chines, expands planks, .DXF and HPGL output. (Freeware)

• Collard, Eric - HullCAO, computer aided hull design, for Windows (free demo)

• Creative Systems, Inc.: general and basic hydrostatics ship and boat stability software

• Dominic, Joe: BtDzn - for MS-DOS (needs EasyCAD/FastCAD program)

• Formation Design Systems: Maxsurf range of advanced computer aided design, analysis and construction software, free demo for Macintosh and Windows

• Friendship systems: parametric hull design software

• Ginsberg, Harold: NACA Foils for Boats & Ships NACA4GEN shareware foil generating program

• HullDrag32 hull resistance calculator for monohulls, under development

• Kockums Computer Systems (KCS) - Tribon, for Windows and UNIX Workstations (commercial)

• Lainé, Robert - CARENE 40 & 50, hull fairing programs for Windows (hard chine hulls) (shareware)

• Lainé, Robert - Sailcut Sail design and plotting program - free evaluation copies

• Lug Rig software: navigational software - most programs need Windows 95

• Martínez, Humberto: CAD system (Mac/Windows 95)

• MAXSURF free demonstration from Graphic Magic

• Nautilus hull fairing and lofting programs, including free demos

• Navigation software from Inrete

• Performance of surface-piercing propellers, in QuickBasic, by Fishmeal

• Performance prediction for speed under sail, with free demos

• Pro Mar software: shareware navigation software

• Proteus Engineering FastYacht/FastShip, FlagShip ship design software, including hullform design, structures, powering, stability, maneuvering, and cost estimating, with free demos (for Windows)

• Schwenn, Peter - FastYacht, velocity prediction program for PC and UNIX (optional hull design module)

• Tri-Coastal Marine Software AutoDock marine utility for AutoCAD, Atalanta integrated marine design and manufacture inside AutoCAD

• Vacanti Yacht Design - Prolines, for Windows (not free)

• Viagrafix: DesignCAD free demo for Windows 95 or NT

• Vilmin, Emmanuel: SHAPE3D - Surfboard and sailboard design and drawing program (+ download)

• WB-Sails Ltd - MacSail, for Mac