Het laatste nieuws vanuit Hallberg-Rassy Connectie.
Eindelijk is het dan zover en kunnen we, met inachtneming van de beperkingen rondom Covid, elkaar treffen op 18 september in de Flevo Marina in Lelystad. We hopen dat we veel schepen mogen verwelkomen, maar weet dat je ook prima met de auto kunt komen en makkelijk en ruim kunt parkeren. Adres is Overstag 20 in […]
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Op 7 september vindt onze Jaarlijkse Algemene Leden Vergadering (JALV) plaats in de Sociëteit van de Koninklijke Watersport Vereeniging Loosdrecht (KWVL) aan de Oud Loosdrechtsedijk 153. Deelnemers aan de JALV van de Hallberg-Rassy Connectie kunnen gebruik maken van de parkeerplaatsen op het parkeerterrein P-Noord van de KWV, schuin tegenover de ingang van de Sociëteit. Bij […]
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Sail and BBQ event Grevelingen Saturday 18 September is finally the day: a new HRC Sail & BBQ event at the Grevelingen. Time to see each other again and share our stories from the cockpit. Finally! Sail and subsequent drinks on the jetty and BBQ on the island Ossehoek The plan is that the participating […]
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As I shared with you earlier the progress of the refit of Ellös (sea4see.org and on Youtube), it is now time: Ellös has been launched. See Hallberg-Rassy 312 “Ellös”: THE SPLASH OF “ELLÖS” In this video you will first of all see how Gabriele thanks the Connectie for the gift that was offered to him […]
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As you can see in the picture, I am standing near a buoy. It is the old BvK (Blocq van Kuffeler) buoy at the entrance of our sailing club (WV Blocq van Kuffeler). Within our association, self-reliance is mandatory and Nicolette and I have adopted this buoy. That means cleaning and painting. But a buoy […]
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It’s May 2021 and the Covid situation seems to be getting better. In the middle of winter 2020/21, Ngahue IV was unloaded in Southampton and handed over to the English Hallberg-Rassy dealer. At the last minute, Sevenstar suggested taking the boat to IJmuiden. A nice offer, but not really helpful anymore at that time. What […]
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Dear HRC members, On request, we are starting a closed WhatsApp group HRC Support to help each other quickly with advice and assistance. Every member is welcome in this group. Do you have a short question for advice or help, or do you for example have a tip which is useful for many other members, […]
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The HRC has recently expanded the ship register. It is now also possible to include the MMSI number and callsign of your Hallberg-Rassy. MMSI stands for Maritime Mobile Service Identity. Members can fill in this information themselves under tab profile at “change my data”. New members will be asked for this information at registration. During […]
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Saturday, November 13 our annual Captains Dinner is on the HRC calendar! This year our traditional annual Captains dinner will be held in the beautiful and romantic Kaag sociëteit “De Waterlust” in Warmond, near The Hague and Leiden. Behind the scenes we started the organization of this event. Recently Nelson, Kittiwake and Indian Summer met […]
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Dear Connection members, Outside it is really winter. Nights with more than 10 degrees frost. We haven’t experienced that in a long time. I assume that most members take their boats out of the water and store them outside or pamper them in a heated or unheated shed. There are, however, members who continue to […]
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Hello dear friends of the Connectie, How are you doing? Hopefully healthy, but perhaps also a little Corona tired? Or perhaps you are extremely motivated to immerse yourself in difficult maintenance tasks or to read books about distant sailing, to get your sailing licence, to take a navigation course or to make plans for your […]
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We invite everybody to join and interact with each other at Facebook group HRC The HRC has started a secure private Social Group which is available to HRC-members only. The purpose of the closed HRC-Group is to provide a platform to social network (in addition to our HRC-website, Forum and Instagram Feed), where HRC-members can share […]
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In this update: Instagram Milestone! New Social Media Coordinator Hallberg-Rassy Connectie on Facebook! 800+ Instagram followers and still growing! The HRC-Instagram feed recently passed 800 Instagram followers and is steadily growing daily. Follow Hallberg-Rassy Connectie’s Instagram feed at instagram: Hallberg-Rassy Connectie To further grow our exposure and attract potential new Hallberg-Rassy Connectie members, it would be […]
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In September 2020, it seemed to us to be pretty clear that small yachts that were circumnavigating the world would not be able to sail much further in 2021 than where we had already come when the Corona pandemic broke out in March 2020. From French Polynesia, all subsequent destinations were still closed and it […]
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It is with great pleasure that Lidia and I organise events for the HRC. So that was a bit of a switch this year! A promising Wadden event unfortunately could not take place. Everything was arranged and to make matters worse, the weather at Whitsun was unbelievably beautiful…. Well, it is not in our nature […]
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One day after Friday the 13th, the second digital ALV and then the Hallberg-Rassy Connectie pub quiz will take place. On the 21st of October this event was made world famous through our site and via email we were even invited to participate twice. With as an extra – and plaster on the wound because […]
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Madeleine Hagesteijn-van Hattem (HR Indian Summer) will receive the Poerstamper goblet of Tom and Lidia van Disseldorp (HR Mariste) on board of the Indian Summer in Willemstad during the digital ALV in a creative way. Madeleine was praised by Tom van Disseldorp via a video for her great commitment to and involvement in the Hallberg-Rassy […]
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Online SQUID meteo routing course for members of the Hallberg-Rassy Connectie. Tom Robeyn, who some of us know from the RADAR course, will, if there is sufficient interest in us, provide an online electronic route planning course in two evenings. SQUID is the metro provider of the Volvo Ocean Race and the Vendée Globe. SQUID […]
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On 12 October, our secretary Frederik van der Dussen and the undersigned, in my role as HRC reporter, had an online interview with Anke Haadsma van Zeilwereld. This interview was based on a request at the ALV earlier this year, with the aim to promote the connectie . Through our member Herco Tibboel (HR 46 […]
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Traditionally, the annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place on Saturday the 14th of November at 20.00 hrs., this time due to Covid-19 in a digital way and unfortunately without a Captains dinner afterwards. What we do organize is an original and atmospheric Hallberg-Rassy Connectie Pub Quiz. If you aspire to the role of fellow […]
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