At the Miami show 🌴 the Riviera 4300 Sport Express, alongside a strong Riviera Yachts lineup. Handcrafted in Australia with Riviera’s long-standing commitment to sustainability, serious craftsmanship, and refined elegance—always with deep cruising at the core. A true sweet spot in the range: ideal as a first Riviera or a thoughtful downsize. Versatile, capable, and built to be enjoyed underway. Watch our walkthough on BoatTEST.com ⬇️ #rivierayachts #boattest #riviera4300 #miamiboatshow

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Many sailors come to boatlife trying to stretch the feeling of a sailing holiday and for a while, that works. Everything feels new. Every anchorage feels special. Every passage feels like an achievement. But eventually, the everyday parts take over. The grocery runs in unfamiliar places. The maintenance that never fully ends. The weather deciding for you. The nights that are less calm than you hoped for. This is usually the moment when people think something went wrong. In reality, this is simply the moment when boatlife stops being a trip and starts being a life. Living aboard long-term isn’t about extending adventure. It’s about finding ways to live well on normal days, the quiet ones, the repetitive ones, the days that don’t make it into photos. Boatlife lasts when you stop measuring it by highlights and start paying attention to how it feels over time. If you’re interested in that version of boatlife, the one that’s honest, imperfect, and sustainable, then you are in the right place. Stay Salty, Greta and Michael soon back on ForTuna ⛵️ #sailing #sailinglife #boatlife⚓️ #liveaboard #sailingadventure

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3-Second Knots - The Bowknot vs. The Granny Bowknot The Resourceful Sailor www.sailingwithjosh.com

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1) Understanding your energy needs is essential to determine how much solar you need. Start by making an "energy budget". List all your consumers and their daily usage. For example, if your LED lights use 1W per bulb and you have eight bulbs on for 5 hours a day, that would be 8 Watts for 5 hours or (8x5) 40 Wh (Watt hours). I like to use kWh to keep things consistent. 40 Wh = 0.040 kWh. It's a good idea to list what you're using while at anchor and another list of what you're using while underway (for instance, you don't use your autopilot at anchor). Remember to list everything: fridge, freezer, watermaker, autopilot, nav lights, chart plotters, etc. For example, here aboard Athena, with an electric galley, fridge, freezer, watermaker, two computers, etc, we use an average of 5.5 kWh per day. 2) To give you a quick estimate, use https://globalsolaratlas.info/ to find "Global horizontal irradiation" per day for your location. Take your daily energy consumption from step 1 and divide that by the number of solar hours. In the case of Athena, located in the Caribbean, that would be 5.5kWh per day / 5 sun hours = 1.1 kW solar array. Keep in mind that this is a theoretical number that does not take into account the shading or degradation of the panels over time. Let's add 30%. 1.1 x 1.3 = 1.43 kW. You can now divide that number by the panel's Nominal Power output. In the case of Athena, our panels are 400W SunPower panels. 1430W / 400W = 3.6 panels needed to cover our 5.5 kWh per day consumption. 3) Understand that the amount of solar you can install on a small sailboat is limited by the size of the boat and heavily influenced by shading and, of course, the boat's location. The size of the panels might also be defined by the height of your stanchions or the size of an existing solar arch. Figure out where you're able and willing to install panels. That will dictate the size and number of panels. 4) Use Victron Energy's MPPT Calculator to calculate what MPPT is ideally sized for your solar panels and expected output based on location. Based on our experience in the Caribbean, the estimate provided by the guide is reasonable. https://www.victronenergy.com/mppt-calculator. Remember that it's best practice to avoid combining panels with different specs on the same MPPT. #sailboat #sailboatproject #boatwork #saillife #liveaboard #liveaboardlife #saltlife #sailing #sailingadventure #travel ingcouple #livingonaboat #solar #sailboatsolar

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https://www.scanboat.com/en/boat-market/boats/motorboat-sunseeker-superhawk-43-17521203 Motorboat - Både sælges, Sunseeker Superhawk 43, 2007 DKK 1.595.000 Scanboat

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Do I need a Licence to Charter in Croatia? In this video, Mahina answers another frequently asked question about sailing in Croatia - do you need a license to charter a boat? If you're planning to charter in Croatia and sail around, this is definitely a question you need to know the answer to. Watch now to find out what you need to do to legally charter a boat in Croatia and start planning your next adventure on the Adriatic! Here's a link to check out if your licence is valid in Croatia: https://www.45degreessailing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/acceptable-licences-sailing-croatia.pdf And remember there are four ways 45D can help get you sailing in Croatia. For more information on each of them simply follow the link. Premium Tours - https://go.45degreessailing.com/luxury-crewed-sailing-holiday-in-croatia Bareboat Charter - https://go.45degreessailing.com/bareboat-charter Flotilla Week - https://go.45degreessailing.com/sharpen-up-flotilla Buy a Yacht - https://go.45degreessailing.com/yacht-consult

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