I’ve received a few questions about our whole vinyl wrapping experience, so here’s a short post about that! Wrapped Hull Color When we got the boat in the spring of 2019, it came with the standard white hull. Long before that, however, we had decided we wanted to Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2021/08/11/vinyl-wrapping-update/ Twitter: […] More
A while ago I got a question about what lines go where on the deck, and a “maybe you could write a blog post about the rigging?” Yes, I can! Overview The basic cockpit layout, with the (highly recommended) secondary winches and the code zero stuff. The red line Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2021/05/08/hanse-388-rigging/ […] 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
Our Hanse 388 has three different GPS devices. A couple of days ago, when I was sorting through the position data, I came across some interesting glitches. It’s All Over the Place! It all started out with this video, replaying a few minutes of boat movement. In real life, Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2020/12/12/gps-precision/ […] 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
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
One slightly frustrating part of sailing– at least with monohulls!– is when the boat is deeply tilted over to one side or the other. It looks cool in pictures (“oh wow, look at them going, wind in the hair, smiles on their faces!”), but real life aboard a heeling Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2020/02/20/that-heeling-feeling/ […] 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