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The Sabre Spirit 37 under main and jib on mirror-calm water in the Saguenay fjord, overcast sky

Fjord, a sailing simulator

Sail a Sabre Spirit 37 up Québec's Saguenay fjord, Tadoussac to Chicoutimi, on real tides and photoreal 3D scenery. In development for Windows PC, version 0.29.

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The real Saguenay fjord. Tadoussac to Chicoutimi.

Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles draw the real shore, and the CHS NONNA-100 charts give the depths.

  • TadoussacThe marina, both ferry terminals, whales at the river mouth and la Toupie lighthouse.
  • L'Anse-Saint-JeanTwo docks and a log-boom breakwater; the tutorial and four timed races start here.
  • Anywhere on EarthOpen the world map, drop a pin on open water and sail there.
The sloop reaching past a forested point at L'Anse-Saint-Jean, mountains of the fjord behind

Sailing the Sabre Spirit 37. Arcade or sim controls.

Trim the Sabre Spirit 37’s lines

Sheets, traveller, halyards, reefs and furler. Sim mode gives each line its own key and a colour-coded panel.

Sim controls: the colour-coded lines panel beside the boat on a reach, with the HUD readouts

Read the Saguenay tides on the chart

CHS tides and currents, depth shading, live rain radar and a course predictor on the chartplotter.

The chartplotter at Tadoussac: CHS depth shading, tidal current arrows and the 24-hour tide graph

Race the Parcours du Boeu’ at Tadoussac

The Marina de Tadoussac's race since 2009: start in the bay, round la Toupie, beat your own ghost.

The sloop close-hauled off Tadoussac at the start of the Parcours du Boeu’

Learn sailing from a voiced tutorial

25 steps at L'Anse-Saint-Jean, read in English or Québec French; each one waits until you have done it.

A tutorial card beside the boat at golden hour, with the wind dial and the HUD part it explains

The tides

The tides come from the Canadian Hydrographic Service: hourly predictions for Tadoussac, L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Port-Alfred and Chicoutimi. The water in the game rises and runs when the real Saguenay does.

Weather to 30 knots, at any hour

Pick a preset, or set the wind, gusts, rain, fog and lightning yourself; then the date and the time of day.

Presets

  • Clear Skies
  • Few Clouds
  • Overcast
  • Morning Mist
  • Heavy Rain
  • Thunderstorms
  • Calm

News from the Fjord dev log. What changed, and why.

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The start menu: FJORD, Resume at L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Activities, World map, Settings

· v0.29.0

Activities from the start menu

Version 0.29.0 puts Activities in the start menu, so a race or the tutorial is one click from launch. Free sailing now resumes your last place, and the activities list scrolls.

A low view of the sloop at speed, its bow wave and wake

· v0.28.4

SailSim is now Fjord – Sailing Simulator

A tutorial step on the water at L'Anse-Saint-Jean, the card on the right, the HUD on the left

· v0.28.3

The tutorial now speaks Québec French

System requirements on Windows PC. Provisional, until the first release.

  • SystemWindows 10 or 11, 64-bit
  • GraphicsDirectX 12, hardware ray tracing; high-end recommended
  • Tested onNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090: about 67 fps at 1080p
  • InternetRequired for the scenery, cached up to 6 GB
  • ControlsKeyboard and mouse
Visual wind: light streaks over the water show where the air goes around the boat

Questions

Something else? Write to us. Email the studio

Is the game out yet?

Not yet. It is in development, at version 0.29.0, with no release date.

Which platforms does the game run on?

Windows PC, with a high-end graphics card for the photoreal scenery and ray-traced light.

Will the game be free?

Not decided yet. We will say so in the dev log first.

Is the game in French?

Yes: the interface, the tutorial voice and the sailing terms, in Québec French and English.

The activities list: tutorial, the Parcours du Boeu’, four timed races and free sailing