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Kelp Farming – the solution to everything?

Did you guys know that over 50% of the seafood we eat– from fish and shellfish to seaweed and algae– isn’t caught in the wild? It’s grown through aquaculture or aquatic farming. The most common method is farming fish in huge nets and floating cages, where like many industrially farmed animals, the fish occupy stressful, overcrowded pens. They produce massive amounts of waste, polluting...
Click & Boat Interview Sailing Adhara Jan & Jessie

Is boatlife the best life? Our Interview for Click & Boat (English Version)

To celebrate our two-year anniversary aboard Adhara we got together with Click & Boat for an Interview. The Original is in German but we've received so many messages from you so we translated it in English below. Don't forget and please tell your friends about our special for you guys: SAVE 5% ON ANY BOAT RENTAL BOOKING with Click & Boat with our code "ADHARA5" TRANSLATION FROM THE...

HOW TO: 6 best steps to buying a used sailboat and sail around the world

Or in our case... buying a 20-year-old ocean-ready sailboat! When we bought Adhara in July of 2020, she was the first boat we ever bought. She is a Contest 48CS build in the Netherlands in 1998 by the Conyplex yard. She is very solid and has a center cockpit, her in-mast furling main sail and furling genoa and jib allow us to adjust all sails from her safe cockpit.  Many of you ask us about...

How To Handle Every ANCHORING Challenge like a pro Using These Tips

The first time we tried anchoring manoeuvres with Adhara was in July 2020 in Helford River in Cornwall, UK. It was a few weeks after we had bought her and we were finally ready to leave the marina and start exploring the glorious English South Coast. Adhara was still very new to us and so was her anchor. We picked a calm day and dropped the anchor a couple of times to see how it would...