Dev log · · v0.28.4
SailSim is now Fjord – Sailing Simulator
The project started on 4 November as SailSim, a 27-foot sloop on San Francisco Bay. It has lived in the Saguenay for most of its life since, so in version 0.28.4 it takes the fjord's name.
The first commit, on 4 November 2026, was called SailSim: UE 5.8 San Francisco Bay sailing simulator prototype. It had a 27-foot masthead sloop, the bay’s real topography and bathymetry, and an ocean the boat floated on.
Within a day we had the Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles streaming through Cesium, a world map, and then the Saguenay: CHS tides and currents, the Tadoussac marina and ferries, whales at the river mouth and the forest on the fjord walls. The boat became a Sabre Spirit 37. San Francisco is still in the game, but the Saguenay is where the work goes.
So in version 0.28.4 the game is called Fjord – Sailing Simulator, in French Fjord – Simulateur de voile. The menus, the window title, the start screen, the chart credits and the trailer all carry the new name.
What did not change
Your saved places, weather presets, race results and settings stay where they were. The game’s internal modules keep the old name, which nobody sees, so nothing you saved is lost in the move.
What is next
Fjord is in development and has no release date yet. We have not decided how it will be released; when we do, it will be in this dev log first.