GO BOATING!

Folks, there's a world of boating out there that's so wonderful, you'll just never believe it till you do it.  Boats of every description in places of every kind....big ones, little ones, fancy ones, plain.....they're all "jewels" to somebody and ready to take you to places you can't go any other way.

I know, I know...."it's expensive,"  "I can't get away," I don't know how."  All that's relative to what you believe, for there are boats that are less expensive, you can get away for a charter if you can't own your own, and "knowing how" is what BoatMaster is all about.

BoatMaster will teach you how to get away and back to the dock, safely and without bustin' up stuff.  That's the first thing to learn.  After that, we'll tell you how to go about the next steps.  Lots and lots of boaters will  help you.  

Just get started.  The "first step is the longest."

Tell us some stories about your boating or I'll tell some stories of my own....and THAT will be an ugly sight.

This blog is established to learn boating skills and to develop new uses for the innovative new boating software, BoatMaster, V.2.

This can be seen at www.boatmaster.org.

The original version was developed in response to my own boating need. My wife of many years was completely frustrated by my instructions in how to handle our boats at the dock. After years of frustration in many boats....sailboats, outboards, twin and single screw yachts....we still didn't have our own act together. I looked for a teaching simulator, and finding none asked my rocket-scientist-brother-in-law-computer-guru if we couldn't just make our own.

We did, and in the first version I found more fun and interest than I'd ever expected. The thing actually FEELS like a boat being docked....it generates the same feeling of panic when it's crashed as a real one, except that nobody gets hurt, and no insurance claim is filed. I've found it very, very useful, personally, and we've now had users from around the world give us similar feedback.

New uses; new features that our users "wish were there," are all invited to this blog. Please comment on what you see, what you feel about this program, and by all means give us and all the readers, your own "stories."

It'd take me too many years to give you mine, but I never tire of hearing others.

The program allows five demos before purchase, so you can see for yourself what you're getting. It's priced lower than the cost of a single fender, and thus is available to EVERY boater.

Enjoy, and return.

WILL IT RUN ON A MAC?

Alan asked a vital question.  Will it run on a Mac?

We tried running it with Parallels, and find that it's a bit "jerky." We don't recommend that solution at this time, but if there's much interest we can port it later. Anybody else want a Mac version? If so, send your Mac friends to the blog comments, and we can see where on the development schedule to put your need.

If there's a need, we'll meet it.