Category: HRC Introduction members

Mi Dushi is HR 312 no 257 from 1983. This year she turns 40 years old! We (Jan and Bien) have had her since 2016. We have been members of the association since 2020. I (Jan) have been sailing all my life, but after moving from the Netherlands to Belgium, I sailed little or not […]

We, Bruno and Ilse, would like to introduce ourselves as new HR members. Actually, we should have done this before, as this is already our 2nd HR. We met by chance this summer in Turkey, Goçek, a couple, owner of a HR 55 who pointed us to the existence of this forum. We ourselves were […]

Dear HR community, We are Peter and Ramona with our two children Leonard (14) and Lorenz (5 months) and would like to introduce ourselves briefly. We bought our HR 342 in Medemblick a year ago. Our home area is the Maasplassen in Roermond, where Leonard and I also do a lot of Laser sailing. But […]

Dear HR sailors, We would like to briefly introduce ourselves. We are Alphons and Dorethy van de Ven. After years of sailing, we sold our sailing ship in 2017 and then enjoyed motoring on the inland waterways on our Super van Craft. Sailing, however, continued to attract (especially with me Alphons) which is why we […]

Since April 2021 we are the proud owners of this HR34. In that spring we moored in Bru and in the summer holiday we went via the Wadden to Lelystad, which is now our home port. Before that we had a Compromis 888. A fine, solid boat, but the HR34 is, apart from being slightly […]

Hello HRC fellow members! My name is Marco and my wife is Francesca, we are both Italian and we are the happy owners of FREEDOM, an HR36 built in 1990 (hull #63). I have been sailing since I was a teenager and I obtained my licence in 1984, but only more recently I had the […]

We, Anneke Slob and René Dubbeldam, introduce ourselves to the HR-Connectie as new members. Since November 2020 we are the proud owners of the HR39 MKII ‘Datcha’ (PH7225; MMSI: 244002311). Our berth is Strijensas. In 2021 we have already had a chance to get used to this very beautiful, spacious and complete boat; we have […]

We joined in the spring of 2021, having bought the HR 34 Wassily at the end of 2020. She is from 2004 and with hull number 448 one of the more recent ones in this series. We find 34 feet very large, as we are used to small open boats: we have had a Polyvalk […]

We would like to introduce ourselves here at the HRC: We, Lydia and I , bought the HR 42 E “Marra” from Lemmer in January 2021 and are now exploring and maintaining the ship. The name has been changed to Erlano, named after our 3 children (2 from Ly and 1 from me): Eric, Laura […]

We would also like to introduce ourselves to the Connectie, we have recently become members of the Hallberg-Rassy Connectie! We, Henk and Jan are sailing since 2009 with our boat on the Dutch (coastal) waters. Our boat is a HR40 with construction number 121 and we are the first owners. Now that our agenda offers […]

Hi, Here is a short introduction: of me, my boat, my dreams and my crew: Me: I am 60 years old enthusiastic sailor since 1966 when I got my first Optimist sailboat. First sailing experiences I got on the lake near the city of Tampere. My experiences are included not only cruising but also racing […]

Our board member Claude recently received this email. Of course, this introduction fits perfectly in our “HRC members introduce themselves” section Good afternoon Mr. Holewijn, Dear Claude, Yesterday I signed up as a Hallberg Rassy 342 owner as a member of the Hallberg-Rassy Connectie, and also immediately paid the membership fee. The love for sailing […]

Op Stok 3, HR 46, visits Association Jeudi Dimanche 26 juni 2020 Aber Wrach Recently Paul and Marieke van den Heuvel-van Nuffel became members of our association with OP STOK 3, a Hallberg-Rassy 46. Paul covers a lot of sea miles and he does this with Op Stok 3 also as chairman of Sail Training […]

We are Harpert, Emily, Fay, Jorg, Raúl and our dog Pip. We live in Burgh-Haamstede and we have been moored in the marina of Bruinisse for a couple of years now. We have already made several sailing holidays to Denmark, England and France and now we want to sail even more south along the French […]

We would like to introduce ourselves as new members. I started sailing in the mid-eighties. In 1995, together with my wife Martina, we obtained the usual sailing licenses in Germany. In the following years we chartered boats, mostly in the Mediterranean. In 2009 we made our dream come true and bought our HR 37. I […]

We are Katja and Jeroen and the proud owner of our “Njord”, a tough HR94 from 1989. The name “Njord” is the Nordic god of the fertile coastal area, seamanship and sailing art. Together we have a composed family with 8 children, most of whom have flown out (unfortunately no sailors). Our harbor is currently […]

For the last 10 years my wife (Efrosini, Greek) and myself (Edwin, Dutch) have been big fans of Hallberg-Rassy and buying one has been a regular topic in our conversations. We never got to it and every year we usually end up chartering a French or German-made yacht for our summer holidays, which we usually […]

NEW Hallberg-Rassy ConnectIe member HR 372 Wildeve from the Baltic Olpenitz marina. Dirk Polchow and Myrna Stuckert on their Hallberg-Rassy Wildeve on the L-pontoon in front of NOVA Yachting in Bruinisse. Wildeve will be sailed to the Baltic soon.

Located at the jetty in front of Nova Yachting, Daan and Caroline show the Hallberg-Rassy Connectie club flag as proud owners of the first HR40C with construction number 3 within the Connectie. As experienced Hallberg-Rassy sailors they have just received the club flag of the chairman with thanks to Magnus Rassy for sponsoring the first […]