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Design it, Drive it: Speedboats is a speedboat simulator built around designing and driving custom boats. You adjust dozens of parameters, then test how your hull design affects handling and speed. The simulator models real-world boat behavior, including chine walk, porpoising and blowover, and lets you examine forces and hull contact with the water as they happen.

Design your boat

The game includes two adjustable hull types: vee-bottom outboards and Formula-style outboard tunnels. Vee hulls have more than 40 adjustable parameters that affect appearance, performance and handling; tunnel hulls can also be modified. Boat meshes are generated from your chosen parameters, and the physics calculations run on the resulting geometry.

The simulation models thousands of hydrodynamic, skin-friction, buoyancy and aerodynamic forces across the boat, lower unit, powerhead and individual propeller blades. The force-vector view shows many of these forces, helping you see why a boat chine walks, porpoises or turns as it does, as well as which parts of the hull are in the water. Steering-wheel force feedback is also modeled. Engine trim, hull and pad design, and the cockpit-operated hydraulic jackplate affect drag and speed; surface-piercing propeller forces can also steer the boat and require corrections.

Maps and courses

The maps are based on real locations and generated from satellite terrain data. Lotus Lake in Chanhassen, Minnesota, is a small, three-bay lake about one mile long. Glen Canyon in Utah follows a stretch of the San Juan River, with narrow and twisty sections, wider straights and open lake areas; it has multiple starting points and takes more than 30 minutes to drive from end to end in a boat capable of over 100 mph.

Courses use buoys to mark open-water circuits, with red buoys for right turns and yellow for left. The available courses are:

• Lotus Lake Top Speed Shootout: a straight, mile-long speed competition.
• Lotus Lake Short: a four-turn course in the main bay, with laps usually under one minute.
• Lotus Lake Full Lap: a longer, shoreline-hugging circuit around the lake, taking under three minutes in a quick, well-handling boat.
• Glen Canyon Shootout: a straight, mile-long speed competition.
• Glen Canyon Full: a one-way point-to-point course over 40 miles long, taking more than 30 minutes in a boat capable of 100 mph.
• Glen Canyon Minnow: a four-turn circuit with two tight left turns, a medium right turn and a long 180-degree left turn; laps are typically around 50–55 seconds or less.
• Glen Canyon Steak: a high-speed offshore-style circuit through a large bay, open water, shoreline and small islands, with laps under three minutes.
• Glen Canyon Abu: a course modeled on a real tunnel-boat course in Abu Dhabi.

Driving modes

In Free as the Wind mode, you can drive anywhere on the maps without course markers, timers or goals. Each map has multiple starting locations. Courses mode offers solo lapped time trials and one-mile top-speed shootouts on both maps, with a separate leaderboard for each course. Course leaderboards show your rank, best-ever lap time, last lap time, best session lap time and the world-record lap time when you complete a lap.

Simulation uses

The simulator is designed for experimentation as well as driving. Real-life marine engineers and boat designers use it to explore how design choices affect boat handling and performance, while racers use it to practice between races and train muscle memory. You can also practice skills such as chine-walk control and engine-trim management in the simulation.