Sailing Archives - Sailing Adhara

Protecting Your Sailboat in Paradise: A Guide to Leaving Your Vessel on the Hard in Grenada Over Hurricane Season

Jan Buese January 21, 2023 0 Comments

When the last season in the Caribbean was nearing its end in may Jessie and I had made the decision that after 2 years on the boat non-stop, it was time for us to go back to Europe for the summer to spend time with friends and family. That naturally raised the question of where we would leave Adhara. Sailing in the tropics (Caribbean) has its pros and cons. From December to May, you mostly...

Predict Wind Data Hub: The easiest way to track your all your sailing data

Jan Buese August 20, 2022 0 Comments

Hi everyone, a few months ago we got in contact with Nick from PredictWind to try out their newest (and I believe first hardware) product. Being a big fan of their weather forecast software already we were intrigued of course! The device is called “Data Hub” and its here to solve a number of problems of some of us connected cruisers out there. As the name suggests it's all about your...

Sailing At Night can be scary but what is it really like?

Jan Buese May 7, 2022 0 Comments

Sailing at Night What is it really like? How scary is it? One of the biggest question marks in my mind before we started cruising was sailing at night. It’s hard to find good information about it or a video showing what its like because of course: it’s very dark! So, as you can pretty much learn some sailing theory online from Youtube or other websites and Apps it’s very hard to know what...

Atlantic Crossing – Leg 3

Jessie February 14, 2022 3 Comments

Departure Day Thu 13 Jan 2022 Guys… we can’t even begin to explain where our heads are at the moment. After the rollercoaster of a shitshow the past couple of days we somehow managed to escape the Corona deathpit of Mindelo today 🙈 It was a slow start with little wind and calm seas, so Guillaume immediately went on his mission to catch us some dinner. Only shortly before trying out the...