Hello Pioneers!

Here are this weekend's races! If you've been creating your own races, post the name of your favourites in the comments so others can look for them!

Saturday 3rd February - 02:00 UTC / 03:00 CET / (Friday 2nd) 18:00 PST / 11:00 JST
Est Distance: 130 NM
Est Time: 33 hours
Weather report: ☁️ More detail
A journey around Stewart Island, a southern New Zealand island also known as Raikura. The weather is set to change direction so choose your route carefully.


Sunday 4th February - 20:00 UTC / 21:00 CET / 12:00 PST / (Monday 5th) 05:00 JST
Est Distance: 15 NM
Est Time: 3 hours
Weather report:☀️ More detail
A race around an inlet at these beautiful islands.


Sunday 4th February - 12:00 UTC / 13:00 CET / 04:00 PST / 21:00 JST
Est Distance: 5 NM
Est Time: 50 mins
Weather report: 🌦️ More detail
This week we're near the ancient city of Rome in Italy.


Remember, if you don’t want to sail alone, you can look for a crew in the Multiplayer Forum, there are plenty of sailors looking for crew members or boats to sail with. Perhaps some of you more experienced sailors could team up with newbies and spread the knowledge?

Share your progress on Twitter and Facebook, and the Steam Forums - we'd love to hear what you think and how you got on!

Enjoy!

Hello Pioneers!

Here are this weekend's races! If you've been creating your own races, post the name of your favourites in the comments so others can look for them!

Saturday 3rd February - 02:00 UTC / 03:00 CET / (Friday 2nd) 18:00 PST / 11:00 JST
Est Distance: 130 NM
Est Time: 33 hours
Weather report: ☁️ More detail
A journey around Stewart Island, a southern New Zealand island also known as Raikura. The weather is set to change direction so choose your route carefully.


Sunday 4th February - 20:00 UTC / 21:00 CET / 12:00 PST / (Monday 5th) 05:00 JST
Est Distance: 15 NM
Est Time: 3 hours
Weather report:☀️ More detail
A race around an inlet at these beautiful islands.


Sunday 4th February - 12:00 UTC / 13:00 CET / 04:00 PST / 21:00 JST
Est Distance: 5 NM
Est Time: 50 mins
Weather report: 🌦️ More detail
This week we're near the ancient city of Rome in Italy.


Remember, if you don’t want to sail alone, you can look for a crew in the Multiplayer Forum, there are plenty of sailors looking for crew members or boats to sail with. Perhaps some of you more experienced sailors could team up with newbies and spread the knowledge?

Share your progress on Twitter and Facebook, and the Steam Forums - we'd love to hear what you think and how you got on!

Enjoy!

Hello Pioneers!

We wanted to give you warning that we have schedulled some server downtime on Monday 5th at 11:00 GMT/ 12:00 CET/ 3:00am PST / 20:00 JST.

This is so we can move servers and do some vital maintenance. We expect this to take around 2 hours. Hopefully this doesn't disturb your sailing plans too much!

Thanks,

Hello Pioneers!

We wanted to give you warning that we have schedulled some server downtime on Monday 5th at 11:00 GMT/ 12:00 CET/ 3:00am PST / 20:00 JST.

This is so we can move servers and do some vital maintenance. We expect this to take around 2 hours. Hopefully this doesn't disturb your sailing plans too much!

Thanks,

Hello Pioneers!

Here are this weekend's races!

If you missed yesterday's update, we opened up the race creation system to EVERYONE! Why not give it a spin if the races below don't take your interest? You can find everything you need to get started on our website here: https://www.sailawaysimulator.com/player-created-races/

You can also race in teams now! Richard explains how this works here:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/sailaway/announcements/detail/1663386372392636876

You'll see from the update yesterday that we've fixed some issues with the Livery system, so why not dress your boat in one of the great designs in the Steam Workshop or make your own to race in!

Saturday 27th January - 18:00 UTC / 19:00 CEST / 10:00 PST / (Sunday 28th) 03:00 JST
Est Distance: 140 NM
Est Time: 28 hours
Weather report: 🌧️ More detail
We're racing to Tobago and there's a couple of routes you can take - which one depends on how much you like tacking.



Sunday 28th January - 12:00 UTC / 13:00 CEST / 05:00 PST / 21:00 JST
Est Distance: 15 NM
Est Time: 3 hours
Weather report:☀️ More detail
This race takes us twice through the strait between the island of Djerba and the Tunisian mainland.



Sunday 28th January - 04:00 UTC / 05:00 CEST / (Saturday 27th) 22:00 PST / 13:00 JST
Est Distance: 5 NM
Est Time: 50 mins
Weather report: 🌧️ More detail
This week we're in the middle of the Philippines in the beautiful Bohol Sea.



Remember, if you don’t want to sail alone, you can look for a crew in the Multiplayer Forum, there are plenty of sailors looking for crew members or boats to sail with. Perhaps some of you more experienced sailors could team up with newbies and spread the knowledge?

Share your progress on Twitter and Facebook, and the Steam Forums - we'd love to hear what you think and how you got on!

Enjoy!

Hello Pioneers!

Here are this weekend's races!

If you missed yesterday's update, we opened up the race creation system to EVERYONE! Why not give it a spin if the races below don't take your interest? You can find everything you need to get started on our website here: https://www.sailawaysimulator.com/player-created-races/

You can also race in teams now! Richard explains how this works here:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/sailaway/announcements/detail/1663386372392636876

You'll see from the update yesterday that we've fixed some issues with the Livery system, so why not dress your boat in one of the great designs in the Steam Workshop or make your own to race in!

Saturday 27th January - 18:00 UTC / 19:00 CEST / 10:00 PST / (Sunday 28th) 03:00 JST
Est Distance: 140 NM
Est Time: 28 hours
Weather report: 🌧️ More detail
We're racing to Tobago and there's a couple of routes you can take - which one depends on how much you like tacking.



Sunday 28th January - 12:00 UTC / 13:00 CEST / 05:00 PST / 21:00 JST
Est Distance: 15 NM
Est Time: 3 hours
Weather report:☀️ More detail
This race takes us twice through the strait between the island of Djerba and the Tunisian mainland.



Sunday 28th January - 04:00 UTC / 05:00 CEST / (Saturday 27th) 22:00 PST / 13:00 JST
Est Distance: 5 NM
Est Time: 50 mins
Weather report: 🌧️ More detail
This week we're in the middle of the Philippines in the beautiful Bohol Sea.



Remember, if you don’t want to sail alone, you can look for a crew in the Multiplayer Forum, there are plenty of sailors looking for crew members or boats to sail with. Perhaps some of you more experienced sailors could team up with newbies and spread the knowledge?

Share your progress on Twitter and Facebook, and the Steam Forums - we'd love to hear what you think and how you got on!

Enjoy!

Hello Pioneers!

Player Created Races has been a feature tested by a small group of dedicated players for a while now and they have been busy creating all manner of races for players to enjoy.

From today we are opening up the system used to create these races to all Sailaway players to get as much feedback as possible before we exit Early Access, if you are interested in creating races for others please visit the following page on our website for instruction on how to get started: https://www.sailawaysimulator.com/player-created-races/




A new feature with this latest update is the ability for players to create a Race Team, these teams are a way for a group of sailors to make their racing teams more official.

Richard explains how this feature works below:

“Your current team is shown in your user profile just underneath your profile picture. If you are not a member of a team yet, you see the button "Show Teams".
Clicking that 'Show Teams" button will bring up a window with a list of all active teams.

Underneath that list is a button called "Add new team". But, becoming a team captain does not come lightly. The button will only appear when you have won at least 3 races with 4 or more competitors.

Clicking the "Add new team" button will bring up a new window where you can enter the name of your team, a description and set the team logo. You will automatically be added as leader of this team. This should show in your user profile. After that you can invite other people to join your team. These people can be assigned a role. The Leader, Co-Leader and Manager can invite/uninvite sailors and edit the team data itself. The Senior can only invite/uninvite people. And the Sailor can just sail.

After you have set up your team, you can go to the main menu, to the boats section. In the right top corner there is a drop down called "Add extra boat". By selecting one of the options that start with "Team:" a team boat is added. Only the original creator of the team can do this. But once a boat is added, it will show up in the boat menu of all members of your team. And all of them can jump on board by selecting the team boat. There is no need to invite them when you want to go sailing.

The leader, co-leader and manager can edit the appearance of the team boats.

Finally, the order of the tams in the window that shows all team is not random or alphabetical. Teams are ordered by their team rank. The best team will appear on top. Winning races will improve the rank of your team.”

There is a large amount of new player shared functionality with the inclusion of this feature so don’t be surprised if things don’t quite work as they should first time, please report any bugs with this feature in the usual way.

• Fixed an issue where telltales on the Folkboat would remain visible when the sails were lowered.
  
• Sailors who completed the recent Canary Islands Long race should now have the correct badge.
  
• Fixed some issues with leaderboard waypoint distances.
  
• Fixed an issue with deck anti slip and deck cabin textures not being loaded correct from the Workshop.
  
• Seagull SFX should no longer play when the Sailaway window is not the focus.
  
• Ctrl + Shift + U should now work again for all players to hide the UI.
  
• The navigation window should now remember its last position and size.
  
• Fixed the Windows 32 bit crash issue 32 bit users had been encountering.

As always If you have a bug you'd like to report, please follow the guide for 'How to report a bug' and post a new thread in the Bug Reporting Forum.

Happy Sailing,

Hello Pioneers!

Player Created Races has been a feature tested by a small group of dedicated players for a while now and they have been busy creating all manner of races for players to enjoy.

From today we are opening up the system used to create these races to all Sailaway players to get as much feedback as possible before we exit Early Access, if you are interested in creating races for others please visit the following page on our website for instruction on how to get started: https://www.sailawaysimulator.com/player-created-races/




A new feature with this latest update is the ability for players to create a Race Team, these teams are a way for a group of sailors to make their racing teams more official.

Richard explains how this feature works below:

“Your current team is shown in your user profile just underneath your profile picture. If you are not a member of a team yet, you see the button "Show Teams".
Clicking that 'Show Teams" button will bring up a window with a list of all active teams.

Underneath that list is a button called "Add new team". But, becoming a team captain does not come lightly. The button will only appear when you have won at least 3 races with 4 or more competitors.

Clicking the "Add new team" button will bring up a new window where you can enter the name of your team, a description and set the team logo. You will automatically be added as leader of this team. This should show in your user profile. After that you can invite other people to join your team. These people can be assigned a role. The Leader, Co-Leader and Manager can invite/uninvite sailors and edit the team data itself. The Senior can only invite/uninvite people. And the Sailor can just sail.

After you have set up your team, you can go to the main menu, to the boats section. In the right top corner there is a drop down called "Add extra boat". By selecting one of the options that start with "Team:" a team boat is added. Only the original creator of the team can do this. But once a boat is added, it will show up in the boat menu of all members of your team. And all of them can jump on board by selecting the team boat. There is no need to invite them when you want to go sailing.

The leader, co-leader and manager can edit the appearance of the team boats.

Finally, the order of the tams in the window that shows all team is not random or alphabetical. Teams are ordered by their team rank. The best team will appear on top. Winning races will improve the rank of your team.”

There is a large amount of new player shared functionality with the inclusion of this feature so don’t be surprised if things don’t quite work as they should first time, please report any bugs with this feature in the usual way.

• Fixed an issue where telltales on the Folkboat would remain visible when the sails were lowered.
  
• Sailors who completed the recent Canary Islands Long race should now have the correct badge.
  
• Fixed some issues with leaderboard waypoint distances.
  
• Fixed an issue with deck anti slip and deck cabin textures not being loaded correct from the Workshop.
  
• Seagull SFX should no longer play when the Sailaway window is not the focus.
  
• Ctrl + Shift + U should now work again for all players to hide the UI.
  
• The navigation window should now remember its last position and size.
  
• Fixed the Windows 32 bit crash issue 32 bit users had been encountering.

As always If you have a bug you'd like to report, please follow the guide for 'How to report a bug' and post a new thread in the Bug Reporting Forum.

Happy Sailing,

Hello Pioneers!

Here are this weekend's races!

You'll see from the update yesterday that we've fixed some issues with the Livery system, so why not dress your boat in one of the great designs in the Steam Workshop or make your own to race in!

Saturday 20th January - 10:00 UTC / 11:00 CET / 02:00 PST / 19:00 JST
Est Distance: 170 NM
Est Time: 34 hours
Weather report: ⛅ More detail
A race around the beautiful islands of the Canarias.


Sunday 21st January - 04:00 UTC / 05:00 CET / (Saturday 20th) 22:00 PST / 13:00 JST
Est Distance: 15 NM
Est Time: 3 hours
Weather report: 🌧️ More detail
A race around the shallow waters of the Chastye Islands, be careful cutting the corners or risk running aground!


Sunday 21st January - 20:00 UTC / 21:00 CET / 12:00 PST / (Monday 22nd) 05:00 JST
Est Distance: 5 NM
Est Time: 50 mins
Weather report: ☁️ More detail
This week we're off the coast of Cayenne in French Guiana.


Remember, if you don’t want to sail alone, you can look for a crew in the Multiplayer Forum, there are plenty of sailors looking for crew members or boats to sail with. Perhaps some of you more experienced sailors could team up with newbies and spread the knowledge?

Share your progress on Twitter and Facebook, and the Steam Forums - we'd love to hear what you think and how you got on!

Enjoy and Happy Holidays!

Hello Pioneers!

Here are this weekend's races!

You'll see from the update yesterday that we've fixed some issues with the Livery system, so why not dress your boat in one of the great designs in the Steam Workshop or make your own to race in!

Saturday 20th January - 10:00 UTC / 11:00 CET / 02:00 PST / 19:00 JST
Est Distance: 170 NM
Est Time: 34 hours
Weather report: ⛅ More detail
A race around the beautiful islands of the Canarias.


Sunday 21st January - 04:00 UTC / 05:00 CET / (Saturday 20th) 22:00 PST / 13:00 JST
Est Distance: 15 NM
Est Time: 3 hours
Weather report: 🌧️ More detail
A race around the shallow waters of the Chastye Islands, be careful cutting the corners or risk running aground!


Sunday 21st January - 20:00 UTC / 21:00 CET / 12:00 PST / (Monday 22nd) 05:00 JST
Est Distance: 5 NM
Est Time: 50 mins
Weather report: ☁️ More detail
This week we're off the coast of Cayenne in French Guiana.


Remember, if you don’t want to sail alone, you can look for a crew in the Multiplayer Forum, there are plenty of sailors looking for crew members or boats to sail with. Perhaps some of you more experienced sailors could team up with newbies and spread the knowledge?

Share your progress on Twitter and Facebook, and the Steam Forums - we'd love to hear what you think and how you got on!

Enjoy and Happy Holidays!