With no more snow and ice in our country (hooray!), it was time to jump on the first bus to the winter storage place in Dalsbruk and get our dear boat home! Reunion I arrived at the yard in the early evening, and there it was! Beautiful like the Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2021/04/24/good-morning-season-three/ […] 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
We had just a few miles left until we’d reach the final destination of our summer vacation sail, our home harbor in Turku. The children were all out on the deck, looking quite happy, but also a bit anxious. It had been a long journey (well by our standards at Click here for full post: […] More
Geographically, when we left Poland and headed for Klaipėda, we had already gone from sailing farther away, to getting closer to home. Our hearts and minds joined in on this turnaround one step later, though. Only now, when we were sailing north from Lithuania towards Estonia, it started to feel Click here for full post: […] More
After our exciting sail from Poland to Lithuania, we were dearly appreciating the feeling of some firm Lithuanian ground under our feet. And the urge to walk some with these feet, as well! Here are some travel diary entries from our days in Klaipeda! It’s Filled With Statues Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2021/01/06/juros-svente/ Twitter: […] 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
After a few days in Hel, we were now out on the sea again, and heading in the general direction of Lithuania and its seaport city Klaipeda. Not too directly, though, to avoid all encounters with potentially unfriendly Russian warships and submarines. Via Russia As a wrote in my Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2020/11/14/three-meter-waves/ […] More
Arriving in Hel on a Saturday was a bit like jumping into a tourist beehive. It was sunny and warm, and the small weekend beach resort town was absolutely brimmed with people, all there to spend fun summertime together with their friends and family. For us, though, coming from the Click here for full post: […] More
After our wonderful stay on the island of Bornholm, we were now set to sail towards a country and a place none of us had ever visited. “That looks so cool!” Charlotte said about Mierzeja Helska, a long sand bar stretching out on the map from the Polish mainland, Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2020/10/24/sailing-to-hel/ […] More
“So, when will Christian come?” O asked for maybe the fifth time in twenty minutes. “I think they are an hour or so away, so soon, very soon!” I replied, knowing that I’d probably have to answer the same question a few more times before they’d actually arrive. Click here for full post: https://nakedsailor.blog/2020/10/15/charlotte-meets-cameo/ Twitter: […] More