While I'll likely spend some time sailing around the Great Lakes, New England, and the Caribbean in a modern sailboat, I'm chiefly interested in historical sailing ships and would like as immersive an experience as possible when doing so. The list of downloadable ships on their site seems quite small, and the area list (while more impressive than the ship-list) seems like it could stand to be a bit more robust. It seems like there's not a whole lot of user-created content out there, though. Parts of it seem very well thought out (navigational stuff, wind/waves, etc.). I'm trying to decide if the program itself is worth the cost.

And the boats in the demo handle nicely enough, although the demo timer's too short to really take them anywhere. The graphics look ancient in screenshots, but not too terrible in game. I can't imagine that he's the only VS user around these parts. Then I saw a VS-related link in some of Pieter's stuff just yesterday, and I figured that it was about time to check it out. I learned about this sim quite a long while ago, but never seriously looked into it. I've been checking out the Virtual Sailor demo, and was wondering if anyone else around here uses it regularly and is willing to give their impressions.