The Bandit IF is based on the real world Folkboat, a one design racing class that thanks to its unsurpassed sea going capabilities for its size acquired fame as a low budget passage maker for blue water cruising. The design may be over 70 years old, Folkboats are still being built and raced today. The Second Life version is made in the same tradition, The focus is clearly placed on the sailing and racing aspects, but it can equally be your "home away from home" when exploring all corners of the grid!
The Bandit IF is powered by the 3rd generation BOSS Dynamic Sailing Engine. Everything about the boat is aimed at giving you a fun and realistic experience, while being both cruise friendly and accessible for beginners, yet when its manual control is fully utilized so challenging it will inspire even the most seasoned sailors to give it all they have in exciting close quarters racing!
The Bandit IF comes fully loaded, in addition to working instruments telling you things like windspeed, wind direction and boat speed, you'll find a wind vane, luffing sails, telltales, animated hoisting and all working sheets, right down to a working outboard engine, deployable fenders, sleeping bags, on board lights, and you can even put a kettle on the two burner stove when you feel like relaxing!
The Bandit IF offers realistic behavior, it allows you free wind inputs without the use of presets, independent sail controls, wind variations, wind shadowing and weather helm. For racing and more advanced settings a windsetter and repeater come included in the racepack, allowing you to build a course where you can match the wind to the surrounding area!
The Bandit IF is designed as a two person boat, and while you, of course, can sail it singlehandedly, taking a crew member along to help you tend to the sails and balance the boat will add to the fun and the performance. Not only does the boat have many leisure and couples poses, you and your crew are fully animated when sailing, hoisting, hiking, steering and even trimming for the crew, every command you give is translated directly into action on your screen!
The Bandit IF offers you a free sailing school, not aimed at making you better at gaming, but truly teaching you all ins and outs about sailing. The lessons brought to you in english will cover all real life and second life specific topics. So if you are new to sailing but always wanted to give it a try, and maybe even someday take your skills out in the real world? Sign up today for the SLIFF Sailing School at Skagway.
The Bandit IF is a high quality boat with custom shaped LOD models for all major parts, it won't deform or disappear at any distance, and the land impact when sailing will be around 60 Li. Thanks to clever building however, when moored the boat will still fit nicely in a cheap 32 Li mooring!
The Bandit IF comes with the mesh parts modify and all textures included for you to be used as templates!
Download the manual below to read in great detail about everything the Bandit IF has to offer, then come sail a demo over at Dutch Harbor!
Download instructions See item in Second Life- BOSS Dynamic Sailing System
- WindMapping
- TrueHelm™
- Active Crewing
- Fully Animated
Great Fun!
Sails like a real sailboat and lots of fun! With the improved HUD it is easy to sail single handed.
With the autopilot, sailing is quite easy and without auto it can be as challenging as a real boat.
You can a lot of fun with this boat and I have been sailing mine almost every day.
The Mazda Mx-5 of Boats
If you've only got 3 grand and you want to buy a boat that your not going to get bored with, look no further. The IF is the Miata of SL.
It's easy to learn on and has enough advanced features you'll never get bored sailing it. Plus it's a great way to break into racing b/c it holds it's own in hard turns just like the real deal.
Going on a cruise with lots of narrow passages? Looking for a boat with a TON of custom skin options and addons? Your finished, your search is over. And it carries 3 avatars with the 3rd sticking their head out the front hatch hilariously.
LOVE IT!!!
This is my FIRST real sailboat in SL! It's so wonderful, sooo happy I purchased it. The creator answered my questions quickly. I was able to customize the textures easily making it my own and unique. Sailing is fun and realistic in this. The sounds and the rocking of it as you cut through water is awesome!!! I so was torn between the IF and the Bandit 60, I wanted the low prim count. Maybe one day I'll own a 60 as well. Thank you for making this!
Love
thoroughly enjoy these works and they are great on prims so I can dock more in one place lol.
I'm just another fan
I've sailed a good bit in RL and have a few other SL boats, but the IF is my favorite for its realism. It takes the kind of concentration when sailing close to the wind that an RL boat takes. Oh there are other find boats out there, but if you really want the feeling of how involved you have to be to actually sail and not just be along for the ride, this is the craft. And it looks great too!