Design 

The trawler Princesse is a fictional model inspired by a serie of steel stern trawlers built in the 70's-80's in France: La Déferlante, Diego Maeva, Côte d'Ambre, Maliwan, Le Diamant Vert, Melphys, Lea Marie...
Most of them were built in Vergoz shipyard in Concarneau and  have been operating from Saint Nazaire, Lorient, Arcachon, ports all located on the French Atlantic coast. These boats were known to be very seaworthy and resistant.

Princesse's main characteristics are La Déferlante's ones:  
Displacement             84.45t
Length overall            16.00m
Water line                   14.32m
Moulded Beam            5.36 m
Max draft to DWL        2.74 m
Engine            Caterpillar 3208 (1000-2600RPM)
Power             329 BHP

This model is an adaptation of Stern trawler Princesse initial design for VSF to Virtual Sailor NG version 9.7 .

Because of certain glitches making impossible to load the initial model in VS NG as it is, this specific model is an adaptation using some tricks in order to provide the same features, basically animations and self illuminated parts.
Therefore the related commands are different.

The model features:
- genuine Caterpillar 3208 engine sound,
- max speed 8,4 knots at 2600 RPM [speed controlled by perfomance profile]
- fishing vessel navigation lights as well as deck lighting (activated by anchor light command in lights panel),
- self illuminated wheelhouse and crew compartement,
- swinging cabin door [anim_0 or ctrl+A],
- sliding cabin door giving access to the galley [anim_1],
- swinging door giving access to front deck [anim_2],
- animation [anim_3] stowing fenders and closing access door to the crew compartment,
- animation [anim_4] changing the configuration of the stern deck when trawling,
- adjusted docking points as well as anchor points,
- adjusted position of the hook to hide the tow rope while trawling.

This file includes Chris Johnston's version of light.dds originally provided with his "Flatbed_V2" add-on.
It should be copied to the "graphics" folder [don't forget to make a backup copy of the original].

You can check out this related video: https://youtu.be/2_5SP6pplCw