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
In my previous post I emptied my batteries and discovered that I had a boat problem that I couldn’t safely or legally solve myself. I’ve always thought it a bit difficult to get hold of good boat service professionals, but this time my expectations were quite high. Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2020/05/31/fire-hazard/ Twitter: @sthe_nakedsailor […] More
I woke up and (like I often do) opened my app to check that Charlotte (the boat) was where she was supposed to be. Hmm. No data? Weird. I tried contacting the Raspberry (the small computer aboard collecting the data) over the internet, but that wasn’t answering Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2020/05/30/7-3-volts/ Twitter: @sthe_nakedsailor […] 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
We just came back from two days of (Happy Easter!) sailing with J and O. This time we tried our best to optimize the sailing performance, and the results were quite encouraging! Still Cold “Please! Can’t we go out sailing again,” O kept asking me, over and over Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2020/04/11/were-flying/ Twitter: […] 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
With our heads held high and our second season nigh*), here are some things we are thinking about getting to our dear sailboat before next summer. *) Needed something to rhyme with “high” and this is one word I fell in love with when reading Moby Dick a Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2020/02/12/upgrade-to-season-2-0/ Twitter: […] More
A commonly held view in the sailing community, I believe, is that brand new boats are riddled with kinks and problems. Therefore, better to buy them second-hand, a couple of years down the road, when the original owner has fixed everything that wasn’t properly done in the first place. I Click here for full post: […] More
A commonly held view in the sailing community, I believe, is that brand new boats are riddled with kinks and problems. Therefore, better to buy them second-hand, a couple of years down the road, when the original owner has fixed everything that wasn’t properly done in the first place. I Click here for full post: […] More
So, how fast does our Hanse 388 go? This summer, we gathered over twenty million data points to compare our sailing speeds with what HanseYacht’s marketing material had promised. Here are the results. Our Data Our boat recorded (among a huge number of other things), speed, course, wind angle and Click here for full post: […] More
So, how fast does our Hanse 388 go? This summer, we gathered over twenty million data points to compare our sailing speeds with what HanseYachts’ marketing material had promised. Here are the results. Our Data Our boat recorded (among a huge number of other things), speed, course, wind angle Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/hanse-388-speed-and-polars/ […] More