We’re Flying!
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!
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Some Videos
Last weekend, it was still too cold and also a bit too windy to go out sailing with the family. I played around with some other things, though!
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While There Is Wind
So, what do you do with your sailing blog when the whole world— I and our family included, obviously— is in the middle of a pandemic outbreak of a virus?
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Wind Polars
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 to achieve that?
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That Heeling Feeling
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 boat isn’t always very heavenly.
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Upgrade to Season 2.0
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 long, long time ago. (Next to a... Continue reading Upgrade to Season 2.0
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First Draft of Season Two
Winter is a good time to plan for next summer. It is great fun to make big and daring plans, but the recipe for success, I believe, is to be very relaxed about actually sticking to the plans. So, we might end up boldly going where we intend to, but— and maybe even more likely—... Continue reading First Draft of Season Two
Continue readingSorry for the Spam!
A few days ago I moved the whole blog from our old hosting provider to a new and faster one. During this, I apparently accidentally sent out a whole bunch of template test mails to the email list! I’m so sorry for that! The new site seems much faster, though, so at least something went... Continue reading Sorry for the Spam!
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Hanse Warranty Issues
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 wanted to believe that our... Continue reading Hanse Warranty Issues
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Hanse 388 Speed and Polars
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.
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