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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The choice is huge and getting bigger…! I don’t know if it’s really true, but it feels as if Hallberg-Rassy has been bringing out a first every year for some time now. A 57-footer, a 40-footer, and also a 50-footer. We have been spoiled in recent years… And now another new size is on the […]
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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 […]
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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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Christoph Rassy, father of Magnus and founder of the shipyard we love so much, recently received a great honour. He received the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for his life’s work. A prize that is awarded and presented by professional brothers, click here uitreiking award. To someone who is not only successful himself, but who has also […]
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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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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 […]
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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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