Canting keel !

I have added a canting keel to the ELYD 50, to make it more RL-Open-50 like. The keel has to be canted "manually" after each tack, and you can really see the difference it makes in the heeling angle. As the keel is canted to windward, you also need some kind of daggerboard to provide leeway resistance. This takes the form of (again, similar to the best current Open boats) twin assimetrical daggerboards forward of the keel. The downind one is lowered while the upwind one is raised. This happens automatically as you tack.

There are still a few bugs to iron out, the most annoying of which is that when the sails are set at zero angle of attack, the boat still moves forward... not very realistic!

Oh how i hate this alpha sorting bug!!!

So the first step is to remove as many bugs as possible, and then it will be available for purchase, at a price of between 1500 and 2000 L$. Order yours now if you like by leaving a comment below. It will motivate me to finish as soon as possible!

In the longer term, I plan to do a complete overhaul of the sailing physics, as they are still based on a (heavily) modified tako script.