The boatyard is the place to come to learn about boat construction for Virtual Sailor. Among the links below you will find information about the design process as well utilities to aid you in your project. I have also included a forum for modeling discussion and a place to show off your in-progress models. Click on the image below to view current projects or here to return to the clubhouse.
Useful Information
Ilan Papini's Boat Design Tutorial	An excellent tutorial by none other than the sim's creator. This tutorial teaches all of the steps necessary to convert an existing hull model into a sailable boat.
Ilan Papini's Hands-on Model	An elaboration of the previous tutorial, this article walks and talks you through the basic concepts of making the cfg file and converting the 3DS files into X files. Both this and the previous are must reads regardless of your modeling experience.
Matthew Sebring's Modeling Tutorial	This article walks even the most inexperienced through the concepts of boat design and line drawings. Using the example of a double chined pram, the article explains the process of modeling a boat in 3D Studio step by step.
Modeling Aids
Line Drawings	These are actual line drawings put here in a downloadable format to aid the prospective designer in the modeling process.
Texture Library	Have the perfect hull but no good wood or fiberglass textures with which to map it? This page contains downloadable textures found on most of the available boats.
Boat.cfg Program	This is a little program which was written to construct the boat.cfg file from minimal information.
Customizable Hulls	Here you will find complete but unmapped hulls ready for download and customization. These hulls are about as bare as you can get but each represent great potential.
Design Community
Forum	This forum is intended for designers and modelers as well as those with questions along those same line. For a more general forum please visit www.hangsim.com/vs.