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This is awesome!

Do you plan on adding different types of boats with varying sailing characteristics?

Adding a multihull could be an amazing second option for those who want to compare downwind/upwind characteristics as usually debated.

Oh and if you ever feel like adding in internationalization to this, I'd love to help with a Turkish translation.

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Hey, thanks!

Yes, different boat profiles is on my list of things to add at some point. There are some impressive global races [1][2] that happen every few years using some interesting boats, so it would be neat to follow along virtually in this way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ocean_Race

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vend%C3%A9e_Globe

If you ever get tired of sea-going vessels, I read an account of the Graf Zeppelin's 1929 circumnavigation which claimed that daily route planning was very similar to sailing in that taking advantage of weather patterns gave them significant deltas on top of the motors.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/08/19/globetro...

Follow along sounds neat!

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