SJOGIN 90 minutes Demo
SJOGIN is a sloop type sailing boat with a single advanced mast and a rig consisting of a jib in the forward stay and a Marconi as mainsail. Although it is designed to optimize upwind sailing, it nevertheless offers an almost optimal performance at all angles of navigation.
The main features are:
* It can work with GLW personal wind and with the GLW racing and cruising system, which allows to run hotlaps as well as specific or small boats races.
* It has a Hud which indicates the boat parameters with buttons to adjust the sails (sheet) and move the avatar to port or starboard (hike).
* The Hud contains a 'Menu' that makes easy enabling/disabling the main options.
* There's the option for automatic management of sails (autotrim) and automatic management of the helmsperson and the crew position (autosit).
* It allows 2 sailors, helmsperson and crew member. Both can act as counterweight to the boat's lean and manage the sails.
* It offers sail trimming with telltales, which allow a precise sail adjustment.
* You can save your personal options as default settings.
* SJOGIN is copy/mod. It is also delivered a sjogin-x version (no mod) with preset racing options.
* The animations are compatible with AvSitter.
* A Designing Kit for textures modification is included.
* SJOGIN has 3 different speeds: real, cruise and race mode
- GLW wind for cruising and racing
- Interactive Hud which indicates the boat parameters and menu options
- Autotrim and Autosit options
- Two sailors, helm and crew compatible AvSitter
- Design Kit included
Excellent boat!
Lalia and Ixeya (ISard) are in my opinion currently the best saliboat-boatbuilders in SL. This is a friendly and cheerful boat, easy and enjoyable to sail. Recommended, not just for beginners.
I'm reviewing the demo because I bought my boat in-world.
Excellent demo!
Leaving aside the good qualities of the boat, which I'll cover in a review of the full-featured item, I think this is the best demo I've tried. You're handed a no-copy version of the boat which gives you ninety minutes of total sailing time spread over as many sessions, in as many locations, as you like. Leaving aside the well-known vendor who has their boat demos time-out after only ten minutes (a ridiculously short time to get the feel of a new sailing boat), many vendors with more reasonable policies require you to start your demo at their in-world shop every time, and delete the demo as soon as you stand up.
