Earlier in the spring, I had the pleasure of motoring through the magnificent Finnish Archipelago sea with absolutely no wind and very flat water. As I also had a freshly cleaned bottom, it was a great time to retest the motor cruising speeds of our Hanse 388! Video proof Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2021/07/28/hanse-388-motoring-speed/ […] More
Less than a week now, until we will embark on our third summer sailing adventure! We still don’t know where we will go, but this post isn’t about that. This post is about a short solo trip I did last week. During that trip, for an hour or so, I Click here for full post: […] More
The holy grail of sailboat performance comparison is to sort out how fast it should go, in a certain sea state, with a certain amount of true wind (meaning the actual wind as it is moving near the surface of our dear planet) coming from a certain direction It’s quite Click here for full post: […] More
With a frozen sea, you can’t sail (in the water anyway), so you have to do something else. Here’s an update about the boat tracking and digital logbook system I’ve been working on. First, some disambiguation, since there are a lot of things called ‘Charlotte’ in this blog: Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2021/03/18/charlotte-your-digital-crew-member/ Twitter: […] More
With a few hundred million more speed and wind data points in the database, here’s some fresh sailing performance data, and some humble guesses as to what it all means. Preamble From a cruising customer’s point of view, it is not easy to get a good understanding of how Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2021/02/21/hanse-388-real-life-performance/ […] More
Last week, during my fun solo sail from Finland to Åland and back, I had some issues with engaging the autopilot. Regular commentator and Hanse 385 owner Stuart chimed in (thank you!), and suggested I should check the calibration. So I did! Where Are We Heading? First some Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2020/05/17/calibrating-heading/ Twitter: […] More
Last year I wrote a post summing up our first season sailing performance. Now, a couple of months into our second season, I think it’s clear that we’ve already found a better gear! In this post, I’ll share some data from a two-day solo sail I did this week. Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2020/05/09/hanse-388-performance-2-0/ […] More
In Finland, among quite a few places, 1 May and the eve before are celebrated loudly and merrily, in big crowds, and with a neverending amount of sparkling wine. Not so this year, obviously, but I had another good idea. “Hey, wouldn’t it be nice to go Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2020/05/05/happy-wappu/ Twitter: @sthe_nakedsailor […] More
Sailboat polar diagrams usually tell us what the boatspeed will be, based on wind speed and angle. I thought it would be nice to flip it the other way: if we want to achieve at least, let’s say, three knots of boatspeed, what kind of wind will we need Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2020/02/29/wind-polars/ […] More
Unlike most long distance cruisers, we have retained day jobs while sailing. The cadence of our days is a bit different from many of the other sailors around us as we plan our boat projects/maintenance, land excursions, and sailing schedule very much around work commitments and the ability to secure Click here for full post: […] More
If this blog post was being dictated, it would be NSFW and if I was using Dragon Speech recognition, I would surely have taught it some new words. Staying connected on this voyage to the Caribbean has been by far the most frustrating, swear-inducing, and unexpectedly expensive aspect. Bob Damiano This is definitely not a […] More