Category: HRC news

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

We have great news! Because the Coronavirus has put a thick line on our events this year, we started looking for alternatives. This way we will stay connected, however (for the time being) via the digital route. After all, the safety and health of all of us is the top priority of our Hallberg-Rassy Connectie. […]

HR 37 MAKANI from 2009 with hull number 187 is a new member of the Connectie. The German owners Johannes and Martina are happy to join the Connectie. MAKANI has her berth in Wemeldinge.

HR 40 HINA from 2003 with hull number 14 is a new member of the connection. The proud German owners Michael and Isabelle plan to make a world tour over a couple of years with HINA. HINA has her berth in Wemeldinge.

New member from Berlin HR 43 Mk I hullnumber 94 Coralie with a berth in Stavoren.

Last week the members received an invitation with documents and access link for the JALV, which will be held through Microsoft Teams. We would like to meet you all there! Attached are the agenda, annual accounts 2019 and the report of the cash control committee. Kind regards, Frederik van der Dussen, secretary.   Agenda Jaarrekening […]

With this in mind, the idea was born to make it easy for members to exchange local knowledge about the state of affairs in the marinas and other facilities. Through the forum on the website separate COVID CRUISING GROUPSES have been created for different sailing regions. By sharing your recent experience in a sailing area […]

Last week the members received an invitation with documents and access link for the JALV, which will be held through Microsoft Teams. We would like to meet you all there! Yours sincerely, Frederik van der Dussen, secretary.   Agenda

In order to promote the HRC-experience of our members who have their sailing area in the Baltic Sea and to enrich it with the organisation of a Hallberg-Rassy Baltic Tour event in the future, we are very pleased that Andreas Kaden, skipper of HR 34 Miss Marple, is willing to take on the role of […]