Hi Steve,
Flying Cloud has a strange history in SS. I think that perhaps she was not originally intended to be even a static vessel.
She appears as only scenery in the New York environment, on the East River south of Pier 17.
When she was made a static and an AI ship, she was initially backwards in her bounding box, causing her to sail stern first as an AI ship.
When she was rotated to sail bow first in an update, her mooring points were not rotated. Her forward points hung in mid air near the tip of her bowsprit.
Being equipped with a diesel engine eight years before Rudy was a glimmer in his mother’s eye was just the last indignity that grand lady suffered.
Regards,
Marty
She looks like the Deespona model from Turbosquid, but with fewer details on deck and hull.
Her spars are quite detailed and accurate, and the rigging is also accurate. For the purpose of study, reefed sails would have been a distraction.
Making her drivable under full sail would not be feasible in a simulator with limited wind effect. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that there are not enough keys on the keyboard to fully control her.
