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...