≈ Open Water

A motor cruiser on the real North Atlantic. The sea is real Gerstner wave physics driven by a real Beaufort wind; the boat floats by real buoyancy, steers with real rudder-needs-way-on physics, and drifts on the real Gulf Stream. Real Sun/Moon/stars overhead.

Sailing

Throttle Rudder Wind — Beaufort force Moderate Breeze

Time

Day of year (1999)

Camera — every style

Compass-locked view (front / back / left / right / diagonals)

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What's real: the sea surface sums real Gerstner (trochoidal) wave trains obeying the real deep-water dispersion relation ω²=gk; sea state comes from a real Beaufort wind via the real Pierson-Moskowitz (1964) significant-wave-height formula. The boat's heave/pitch/roll come from sampling that real wave field at its hull corners; the rudder does nothing without real forward speed, exactly like a real boat. A real Gulf Stream current drifts every hull. The sky is the real cosmos — true Sun/Moon ephemeris and ~7,830 real cataloged stars — with real WebGL2 shadows and a reflective sea surface. Every other boat runs the same real physics. Nothing here is scripted.