The Laser One by The Mesh Shop
Sailing this is pure fun! The boat sails BWind. Not the standard cruising BWind, but a totally new racing BWind.
Some of the most notable features:
- Capsizing
- A retractable center board
- Wind shadow
- Room for 2 avatars
- Variable wind settings
- Lots of custom poses
- Asymmetric and semi see-through sails
- Texture scheme that takes 1 second to apply.
- Dynamic camera
This boat is the new ultimate racer in the smalles class. You can however also have a great time cruising with a friend. The sailing on this boat is pretty easy to learn, but a bit harder to do absolutely perfect. It capsizes but only in extreme conditions, so no worries there.
The two main ingredients for this boat: sports and fun!
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Don't buy this
I had my Laser One for around 10 months now. She's a super fun boat to sail, right up til the animations break & you gotta stop, stand up & sit again to fix them. I spoke to the creator about this several times & he's always like yeah, I'll fix it soon. That's been going on since last May (it's March now) & it still ain't fixed. It's a real shame, cause she really is a nice little boat, she just don't work very well. Don't buy one unless a V2.0 that actually works comes out.
A fun boat to sail!
I love sailing this boat, light and nimble, fast to accelerate, great for narrow waterways. I have sailed a number of larger boats, which are fun if you have large stretches of water. However, this makes it fun if you want to sail on a residential sim where the waterways are narrow. It turns nicely, has a shallow draft, so you are not too concerned how far people have extended their beaches. Plus its simple to sail and robust for sim crossings. Highly recommended!
Both fun and fast
This is a really nice little boat. If you want to just throw up a sail and cruise around, it's a very easy boat to sail. But it also has a lot of subtlety, with the various seating positions and the control of the sheet , etc. it is a VERY competitive racer. It's a great boat because it lets you sail as casually or competitively as you like. I like it a lot.
Fun!
It's very fun to sail with this laser, almost as fun as in real life! It also looks very good and everything works great with the HUD.
The most fun you can have sailing in SL....
....unless you own a Nacra! :)
The Nacra goes faster, and the sounds and spray reflect that. But this turns sharper, and is better suited to smaller areas. They both have the same controls, and both will keep you busy. The Laser is more forgiving in terms of sheet angle (it's sail is wider), but the Bwind varies more.
Actually the Laser might be more "fun", as the Narcra is serious racer boy all the time, whereas you can forgo the HUD with the Laser, and sail by the seat of your pants (or skirt) using just the TellTale.
